Dominic Parker

Dominic (Nick) Parker is a PERC senior fellow and the Anderson-Bascom professor of applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Nick is the Ilene and Morton Harris senior fellow (adjunct) at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and a regular faculty lecturer at the Ronald Coase Institute and the Elinor Ostrom Workshop.

In addition to serving editorial roles at three leading journals in environmental economics, Nick contributes research to economics, science, and law journals. It includes studies of environmental markets and property rights, mining and energy booms, land use, fishery and wildlife regulations, water trading, and the political economy of policies toward Indigenous people. His research has been covered in hundreds of media outlets including BBC News, the Wall Street Journal, and The Economist. It has provided input for domestic and international policies ranging from U.S. Department of Interior rules on federal land use to guidelines for the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development on supply-chain reporting and conflict minerals.