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S
ILVIAT
IEZZIDepartment of Economics and Statistics University of Siena
Piazza San Francesco, 7 53100 Siena – Italy Phone: #39-0577-233029 E-mail: silvia.tiezzi@unisi.it
Web page: http://docenti.unisi.it/silviatiezzi/
Personal web page: https://sites.google.com/site/silviaftiezzi/Home
Present and past positions
Since 2016 Associate Professor Economic Policy (SECS 13-A2), Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Siena.
2012-2014 Marie Curie Fellow, First year at Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Second year at Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Siena.
2001-2015 Assistant Professor Economics (SECS 13-A1), Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Siena.
1999 – 2001 Research Fellow, Department of Economics, University of Siena.
1997 – 1999 Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, University of Sassari.
1995 – 1996 Research Associate, Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milan - Italy.
Education
1992 – 1996 Ph.D. University of Siena
1992 – 1993 M. Phil. University of Cambridge (U.K.)
1987 - 1991 Laurea (B.A.) in Scienze Economiche e Bancarie, University of Siena (Fourth year at Pembroke College, Oxford University (U.K.) as Erasmus student)
Grants and Fellowships
2012 – 2014 Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship for Career Development (European Union FP7 PIOF-GA-2011-298084), two years grant.
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2010 Visiting Professor Grant, Université de Montréal, UDEM (Quebec, CA), Départment des Sciences Economiques. Project “Income Dependent Equivalent Scales and the Cost of Children.”
2004 - 2006 Atheneum Research Grant (PAR grant) University of Siena. Project “Income and the Environment. An Empirical investigation using revealed preferences and household production.”
2002 - 2004 Atheneum Research Grant (PAR grant), University of Siena. Project “An Empirical Analysis of Tobacco Addiction in Italy.”
1999 – 2000 Young Economists’ Grant, University of Siena. Project “Environmental Defensive Expenditures and Household Consumption Behaviour.”
1999 – 2000 Young Associate, Environment Directorate, OECD, Paris (offered, not taken up).
1999 - 2000 Young Economists’ Grant Monte dei Paschi di Siena Bank. (offered, not taken up).
1996 – 1998 Post-Doctoral Grant University of Siena. Project “The Welfare Effects of Carbon Taxation on Italian Households.”
1994 – 1996 Research Grant Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milan. Project “A Sustainable Economic Welfare for Italy.”
1992 – 1993 Erasmus Scholarship for Graduate Studies. University of Cambridge U.K.
1991 Erasmus Scholarship for Undergraduate Studies. University of Oxford, U.K.
Research
Research interests
Consumer Economics, Environmental Economics, Health Economics, Applied Microeconometrics, Design and Analysis of Laboratory Experiments.
Research and Visiting Positions
2014 (October 6-25) Visiting Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (PA) USA, Department of Social and Decision Sciences.
2012 (Spring semester) Visiting Assistant Professor (with research and teaching obligations), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (PA) USA, Department of Social and Decision Sciences.
2010 (Fall semester) Visiting Professor (with research obligations) Université de Montréal (Quebec) CA, Départment des Sciences Economiques.
3 Papers in refereed journals
1. “The signaling effect of gasoline taxes and its distributional implication” (with Stefano F. Verde), The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2018 (Accepted).
2. “What Can We Learn about Smoking from 150 Years of Italian Data?” (with Pierpaolo Pierani and Carlo Ciccarelli), Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2017.
3. “Time Delay, Complexity and Support for Taxation” (with Erte Xiao), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 77, 117-141, 2016.
4. “Differential Demand Responses to Gasoline tax and price changes in the US” (with Stefano F.
Verde), Resource and Energy Economics, 44, 71-91, 2016.
5. “Is the Environment a Luxury? An Empirical Investigation using Revealed Preferences and Household Production” (with C. Martini), Resource and Energy Economics, 37, 147–167, 2014.
6. “Declining Equivalence Scales and Cost of Children: Evidence and Implications for Inequality Measurement” (with F. Balli), B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy (contributions), vol.
13 (2), pp. 761-783, 2013.
7. “Infrequency of Purchase, Individual Heterogeneity and Rational Addiction in Single Households’Estimates of Alcohol Consumption” (with P. Pierani) Il Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, vol. 7, issue 2, 93-116, 2011.
8. “Cognitive Factors and Changes in Individual Decision Making: from Drug Addiction to Natural Recovery” (with C. Mocenni and G. Montefrancesco), Chaos and Complexity Letters, vol. 4, issue 3, 61-73, 2011.
9. “Equivalence Scales, the Cost of Children and Household Consumption Patterns in Italy” (with F.
Balli), Review of Economics of the Household, vol. 8, issue 4, 527-549, 2010.
10. “Addiction and Interaction between Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption” (with P. Pierani), Empirical Economics, Volume 37, Issue 1, 1-24, 2009.
11. “Addiction and Alcohol Consumption: evidence from Italian Data” (with P. Pierani), Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, n.2, 265-284, 2007.
12. “An Empirical Analysis of Tobacco Addiction in Italy”. European Journal of Health Economics, vol. 6, issue 3, pp. 233-242, 2005.
13. “The Welfare and Distributive Effects of Carbon Taxation on Italian Households.” Energy Policy, 33, 1597-1612, 2005.
14. “Dipendenza Razionale e Consumo di Tabacco: Teoria ed Evidenza Empirica.” Rivista di Politica Economica, Marzo - Aprile, 225-258, 2004.
15. “Environmental Defensive Expenditures and Households Behaviour in Italy.” Applied Economics, Vol. 34, 2053-2061, 2002.
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16.“External effects of Agricultural Production in Italy and Environmental Accounting”.
Environmental and Resource Economics, n. 13, 459-472, 1999.
17. “Stima delle esternalità e correzione del valore aggiunto del settore agricolo: un'applicazione a dati italiani.” QA, Rivista dell’Associazione Rossi-Doria, n. 68, 19-40, 1997.
18. “Short and Long-Run Price Elasticities of Demand for Nitrogen: an Application of Cointegration to Italian Data”.Cahiers d'Economie et Sociologie Rurales, n. 32, 6-19, 1994.
Edited Books
19. “Is the Environment a Luxury? An Inquiry into the Relationship between Environment and Income” edited by Silvia Tiezzi and Chiara Martini, Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014. [ISBN 978-0-415-69059-1]
Book chapters
20. “Willingness to Pay for Air Quality Improvements: How Much do we Care?” (with Chiara Martini), In: Is the Environment a Luxury ? An Inquiry into the Relationship Between Environment and Income; edited by C. Martini and S. Tiezzi, Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014. [ISBN 978-0-415-69059-1]
21. “Introduction” (with Chiara Martini), In: Is the Environment a Luxury? An Inquiry into the Relationship Between Environment and Income, edited by C. Martini and S. Tiezzi, Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014. [ISBN 978-0- 415-69059-1]
22. “Cognitive factors and changes in individual decision making: From drug addiction to natural recovery” (with Chiara Mocenni and Giuseppe Montefrancesco). In: On the Borders of Complexity, edited by F. Orsucci and N. Sala, Nova Science Publisher Inc, 2012. [ISBN 978-161470576-5]
23. “Welfare indices and Environmental Accounting: a critical survey” (with Simone Borghesi). In:
Economic Institutions and Environmental Policy; edited by M. Franzini and A. Nicita, Ashgate, London, pp. 15-56, 2002. [ISBN 1-84014-150-6]
24. “L'ambiente: un diritto in cerca di istituzioni” (with Maurizio Franzini). In: La Cittadinanza Difficile. Diritti e Welfare; edited by L. Barca e M. Franzini; Il Ponte Editore, Firenze, pp. 143-165, 2002. [ISBN: B00M0N2DSW]
25. "A decision based model of addiction: explaining quitting behavior" (with C. Mocenni and G.
Montefrancesco). Proceedings of the Conference NOLTA Nonlinear Analysis Theory and Applications, Bologna (It), September 11-13, Vol. 1, pp. 123-126, 2006.
26. “A note on Distributional effects of the Ecological Tax Reform in Germany: an Evaluation with a Microsimulation Model.” Proceedings of the OECD Workshop The Distribution of Benefits and Costs of Environmental Policies: Analysis, Evidence and Policy Issues. OECD headquarters, Paris, 4-5 March 2003.
5 Working Papers
“How Hard is it to Maximise Profit? Evidence from a 19th Century Italian State Monopoly” (with Carlo Ciccarelli and Gianni De Fraja) , CEPR Discussion Papers Series DP12907, May 2018.
Family Ties and Children Obesity in Italy (with Federico Crudu and Laura Neri), Health Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Paper 18(09).
“Rational Addiction and Time Consistency: an Empirical Test” (with Pierpaolo Pierani). HEDG (Health, Econometrics and Data Group – University of York) working paper 17/05.
“The signaling effect of gasoline taxes and its distributional implication” (with Stefano F. Verde).
RSCAS (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Florence School of Regulation Climate) working Paper 2017/6.
"The Economic Impact of Clean Indoor Air Laws: a Review of Alternative Approaches and of Empirical Findings" Quaderni di Ricerca Ref.online: ricerche in Economia e Finanza, n. 53, 2009.
"Cue-Triggered Addiction and Natural Recovery" (with Chiara Mocenni and Giuseppe Montefrancesco). Quaderni del Dipartimento di Economia Politica n. 505, 2007.
“An Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare for the Italian Economy” (with Giorgio Guenno). Note di Lavoro, Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei, FEEM, n.5-1998.
Popular writings
“This Is What Monopoly Looks Like: The Italian Tobacco Sector in the Late 19th Century” (with Carlo Ciccarelli and Gianni De Fraja), ProMarket.org, June 2018
https://promarket.org/monopoly-looks-like-italian-tobacco-sector-late-19th-century/
Scientific Activity
Referee for the following journals
Southern Economic Journal
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management American Journal of Agricultural Economics
Contemporary Economic Policy Ecological Economics
Economic Modelling Empirical Economics Energy Economics
Environment and Development Economics European Review of Agricultural Economics Journal of Economic Psychology
Journal of Economic Surveys
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Journal of Environmental Management Review of Economics of the Household The Energy Journal
Natural Resources Forum Rivista di Politica Economica
Invited discussant, 26th European Workshop on Econometrics and Health Economics, Prague School of Economics, September 13-16, 2017.
Invited speaker Workshop “Energy/Carbon Taxation and Climate Policies: A Scoping meeting for FSR Climate”, December 12 2014, Florence School of Regulation, European University Institute (EUI), Florence.
Invited speaker Atelier d'Economie des Resources Naturelles et de l'Environnement de Montréal (CA), February 2011.
OECD Consultant, Environment Directorate, National Policies Division, during the Workshop on The Distribution of Costs and Benefits of Environmental Policies, OECD Headquarters, Paris, March 2003.
Member of the Organising Committee for the XV Workshop of the International School of Economic Research: Environment, Inequality and Collective Action, 16-23 June 2002, Siena.
Membership
Research Associate, Pittsburgh Experimental Economics Laboratory
External Affiliate, HEDG - Health Econometrics and Data Group University of York Member, Marie Curie Alumni Association
Member, American Economic Association; Italian Economic Association; Italian Association of Public Economics
Presentations and Seminars (last five years, (*) if presented by a co-author)
2018 the 8th Southern Europe Experimental Team’s Meeting (SEET Workshop 2018), Lecce, Italy, Feb 23-25;6th World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, Gothenburg Sweden, June 25-29 (*); IX Workshop on Institutions, Individual Behavior and Economic Outcomes, Alghero June 19 – 22; 12th European Conference on Health Economics, Maastricht, The Netherlands, July 11- 14;
2017 Seminar, Departamento de Análisis Económico, University of Valencia (ES); 16th Journées Louis-André Gerard-Varet Conference on Public Economics, Aix-En-Provence (FR), June 12-13;
XXIX Annual Conference of the Italian Society for Public Economics, Catania (I), September 21-22;
58th Annual Meeting of the Italian Economic Society, Arcavacata di Rende, Cosenza, October 2017 (paper accepted for oral presentation).
2016 Third International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Sciences (IMEBESS), LUISS, Rome, April 14-16; 13th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence 2016, Seville, June 1-3 (*); 57th Annual Meeting of the Italian Economics Society (SIE),
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Milan (I), October; XXVIII Annual Conference of the Italian Society for Public Economics, Lecce (I), September; 7th Atlantic Workshop on Energy and Environmental Economics, A Toxa (ES), June 26-28 (*).
2015 56th Annual Meeting of the Italian Economics Society (SIE), Naples, October 22-24; Workshop
"Taxes, Subsidies, Regulation in Dynamic Models", Brescia University, October 2-3; XXVII Annual Conference of the Italian Society for Public Economics, Ferrara, September 24-25; Network for Integrated Behavioural Science (NIBS) Workshop, University of Nottingham (U.K.), April 21-23(*).
2014 Workshop Energy/Carbon Taxation and Climate Policies: A Scoping meeting for FSR Climate, 12 December 2014, Florence School of Regulation, European University Institute (EUI), Florence (I) (invited speaker); 15th Global Conference on Environmental Taxation, October 24-26 Copenhagen, Denmark; Conference on “Taxation, Social Norms and Compliance”,The Center for Economic Behavior and Institution Design (cebid) at Friedrich-Alexander-University (FAU), Nuremberg (DE), March 6 – 8.
2013 Seminar, Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, February;
Seminar, Università Milano Bicocca, Department of Economics; Seminar, Università di Siena, Department of Economics and Statistics; Florence Workshop on Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Firenze, May; Economic Science Association (ESA) World Meeting, Zurich, July; 54th Annual Meeting of the Italian Economic Society, Bologna, October ; International Conference on Environmental Taxation, Kyoto, October(*).
2012 Health Econometrics Workshop, Siena (I), December; 2012 North-American ESA Conference, Tucson (AZ), November; Seminar, Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, March.
Institutional Activity
2016 Member of the Committee "Concorso per un posto di ricercatore a tempo determinato “senior”
nel settore concorsuale 13/A5 Econometria, Università degli Studi di Siena".
Since 2015 Member of the Teaching Committee for the B.A. in Economics and Management, University of Siena.
Since 2011 Member of the Faculty Board of the PhD Programme in Economics, University of Siena.
2008-2011 Advisor, PhD Programme in Economics, University of Siena.
2005-2006 Lunch and Regular Seminars organization, Department of Economics, University of Siena.
2002 – 2012 Member of the Teaching Committee for the B.A. and the MSc in Environmental Economics, University of Siena.
2002-2006 Member of the internal auto-examiner group for the review of the Department of Economics taught provision (VAI project), University of Siena.
Teaching
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PhD courses (in English)
- “Econometrics I: Linear Models for Panel Data”, PhD program in Economics, University of Siena (AY 2014/15- present).
- “Topics in Econometrics 2”, PhD program in Economics, University of Siena, (AY 2006/7–
2010/11)
- “Topics in Law & Economics: The Market for Illegal Goods”, 2006-2007, PhD program in Law
& Economics, University of Siena.
Graduate (in English and Italian)
- “Advanced Microeconomics (part I)”, MSc in Economics, University of Siena, (AY 2016/17 – present)
- “Econometrics for the Environment”, MSc in Economics, University of Siena, (AY 2014/15 – present).
- “Microeconometrics”, MSc in Economics Environment and Development, University of Siena, (AY 2010-2011).
- “Health Economics”, MSc in Economics Environment and Development, University of Siena, (AY 2010-2011)
- “Health Economics and Policy”, MSc in Economics Environment and Development, University of Siena, (AY 2010-2011)
Undergraduate (in English and Italian)
- “Environmental Economics and Policy", SDS 88-352 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, (Spring 2012)
- “Organizations and Management”, University of Siena, (AY 2001/2 – 2009/10) - “Microeconomics”, University of Siena, (AY 2010/11 – 2012/13)
- “Labour Economics”, University of Siena, (AY 2008-2009)
- “Environmental Economics and Policy”, University of Siena, (AY 2002/3 -2005/6) - “Microeconomics”, University of Sassari, (AY 1997/8 -1998/9)
- “Macroeconomics” 1996-1997, University of Sassari, (AY 1996/7)
PhD Mentoring
Main Advisor or Co-Advisor
Chiara Martini (2008, Roma Tre, Advisor: Antonio Di Majo); Fabrizio Balli (2012, Siena); Abhinav Sharma (2014, Siena); Flaminia Pedone (2016, Siena, Advisor: Ugo Pagano); Elisa Benedetti (first year paper, Siena).
Final Defense Committee Member
Arjana Brezigar (2009, Siena); Laura Policardo (2010, Siena); Sandra Polanya Reyes (2014, Siena);
Guy Barokas (2014, Siena), Emiliano Tealde (2016, Siena).
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