Piazza San Francesco, 7 - 53100 Siena (Italy)
phone (+39) 0577 235119
fax (+39) 0577 232661
e-mail silvia.tiezzi@unisi.it
Position
Assistant Professor,
Economics
Fields of interests
demand
analysis, consumer economics, addiction, applied microeconometrics.
Journal Publications
"Infrequency of Purchase, Individual Heterogeneity and Rational Addiction in Single Households' estimates of Alcohol Consumption. " (with Pierpaolo Pierani). Il Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, Accepted, 2011.
"Equivalence Scales, the Cost of Children and Household Consumption Patterns in Italy. " (with Fabrizio Balli). Review of Economics of the Household, December, 2009.
"Cognitive Factors and Changes in Individual Decision Making: from Drug Addiction to Natural Recovery. " (with Chiara Mocenni and Giuseppe Montefrancesco). Chaos and Complexity Letters, 2009.
"Addiction and Interaction between Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption. " (with Pierpaolo Pierani). Empirical Economics, 2009, 37, pp. 1-23.
"Addiction and Alcohol Consumption: Evidence from Italian Data " (with Pierpaolo Pierani). Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, n. 2, pp. 235-258, 2007.
"An Empirical Analysis of Tobacco Addiction in Italy." European Journal of Health Economics, 6: pp. 233-242, 2005.
"The Welfare and Distributive Effects of Carbon Taxation on Italian Households." Energy Policy, 33: pp. 1597-1612, 2005.
"Dipendenza Razionale e Consumo di Tabacco: Teoria ed Evidenza Empirica." Rivista di Politica Economica, Marzo-Aprile: pp. 225-258, 2004.
"Environmental Defensive Expenditures and Households Behavior in Italy." Applied Economics, 34: pp. 2053-2061, 2002.
"External effects of Agricultural Production in Italy and Environmental Accounting." Environmental and Resource Economics, 13: pp. 459-472, 1999.
" Stima delle esternalita' e correzione del valore aggiunto del settore agricolo: un'applicazione a dati italiani." QA, La Questione Agraria, 68: pp. 19-40, 1997.
" Short and Long-Run Price Elasticities of Demand for Nitrogen: an Application of Cointegration to Italian Data." Cahiers d'Economie et Sociologie Rurales, 32: pp. 6-19, 1994.
Working Papers
"Equivalence Scales Declining with Expenditure: Evidence and Implications for the Distribution of Income" (with Fabrizio Balli) Quaderni del Dipartimento di Economia Politica, n. 611, 2011.
"Infrequency of Purchase, Individual Heterogeneity and Rational Addiction in Single Households' estimates of Alcohol Consumption" (with Pierpaolo Pierani) American Association of Wine Economists (AAWE) Working Paper No. 78 - 2011, Economics.
"Is the Environment a Luxury ? An Empirical Investigation using Revealed Preferences and Household Production" (with Chiara Martini) Quaderni del Dipartimento di Economia Politica, n. 599, 2010.
"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.
"A Behavioral Model of Natural Recovery from Addiction." (with Chiara Mocenni and Giuseppe Montefrancesco) Quaderni del Dipartimento di Economia Politica, n. 505 2007.
"A Note on the Distributional Effects of the Environmental Fiscal Reform in Germany." The Distribution of Costs Benefits of Environmental Policies, OECD Headquarters, National Policies Division, March 2003.
"An Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare for the Italian Economy." (with Giorgio Guenno) Note di Lavoro FEEM n.5 1998, Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei, Milano.
Work in Progress
" Do Time Inconsistency Tests Really Reject Consistently ?" (with Pierpaolo Pierani)
" Income Dependent Equivalence Scales " (with Fabrizio Balli)
" A Meta-Analysis of Income Elasticities of Willingness to Pay for Environmental Quality Improvements " (with Chiara Martini)
Book Chapters
" Welfare Indices and Environmental Accounting: a Critical Survey." (with Simone Borghesi); In M. Franzini and A. Nicita (eds.), 2002, Economic Institutions and Environmental Policy; Ashgate, London, pp. 15-56.
" L'ambiente: un diritto in cerca di istituzioni." (with Maurizio Franzini); In L. Barca and M. Franzini (eds.), 2002, La Cittadinanza Difficile. Diritti e Welfare; Il Ponte Editore, Firenze, pp 143-165.