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Nelson Sa

Senior Lecturer in Economics
Nelson  Sa
nesa@brandeis.edu
781-736-4894
Lemberg Academic Center, L-161

Departments/Programs

Economics

Degrees

Duke University, Ph.D.
Duke University, M.A.

Expertise

Macroeconomics, Industrial Organization, Economics of Telecommunications

Profile

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Nelson Sá came to Brandeis in 2017 after teaching at Vassar College for nine years. He teaches Introduction to Microeconomics, Introduction to Macroeconomics, Macroeconomic Theory, Microeconomic Theory and Game Theory. His current research interests focus on telecommunications policy, including the evaluation and measurement of the costs and benefits associated with electromagnetic spectrum sharing.

Courses Taught

ECON 10a Introduction to Microeconomics
ECON 20a Introduction to Macroeconomics
ECON 80a Microeconomic Theory
ECON 82b Macroeconomic Theory
ECON 181b Game Theory and Economic Applications

Awards and Honors

NSF Grant CNS-1314589, Principal Investigator, TWC SBE: Medium: Collaborative: Dollars for Hertz: Making Trustworthy Spectrum Sharing Technically and Economically Viable (2013 - 2017)

Scholarship

Sa, Nelson with Ana Paula Ribeiro and Vitor Carvalho. "International Collaboration and Knowledge Creation: Evidence from Economics in Portuguese Academia." Science and Public Policy 44. 1 (2017): 50-64.

Sa, Nelson. "Capital Specialization and Aggregate Productivity." Economics Bulletin 36. 3 (2016): 1398-1409.

Sa, Nelson. "Market Concentration and Persuasive Advertising: a Theoretical Approach." Journal of Economics 114. 2 (2015): 127-151.

Sa, Nelson. "Market Structure and Welfare under Monopolistic Competition." Economics Letters 132. (2015): 69-72.

Sa, Nelson with Evsen Turkay. "Ticket Pricing and Scalping: a Game Theoretical Approach." The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 13. 2 (2013): 627-653.

Sa, Nelson with Michelle Connolly and Pietro Peretto. "Sustaining the Goose that Lays the Golden Egg: A Continuous Treatment of Technological Transfer." Scottish Journal of Political Economy 56. 4 (2009): 492-507.



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