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Economics and Finance
UK
2024

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
64
Citations
17841
World Ranking
645
National Ranking
75

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Riccardo Scarpa is affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines within economics and agricultural sciences, focusing particularly on economic and environmental valuation, organic food and agriculture, and environmental sustainability in business.

The scientist has published extensively in areas including:

  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these broad fields, their subfields of study focus on:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Plant Science
  • Marketing
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • General Decision Sciences

Scarpa's main research topics include:

  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Organic Food and Agriculture
  • Environmental Sustainability in Business
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Housing Market and Economics

They have contributed to an array of peer-reviewed journal articles with recent publications such as:

  • "Methodological Advances in Food Choice Experiments and Modeling: Current Practices, Challenges, and Future Research Directions" (2022), Annual Review of Resource Economics
  • "Farm households' perception of weather change and flood adaptations in northern Pakistan" (2021), Ecological Economics
  • "The influence of innovation-adoption characteristics on consumers' trust and purchase intentions of innovative alternative proteins: A comparison between plant-based food, cultured food, and insect-based food" (2023), Food Quality and Preference
  • "Logit Mixed Logit Under Asymmetry and Multimodality of WTP: A Monte Carlo Evaluation" (2020), American Journal of Agricultural Economics
  • "The Participation Dilemma: A Survey of the Empirical Literature on International Environmental Agreement Ratification" (2022), Review of Environmental Economics and Policy

Their frequent collaborators include Cristiano Franceschinis, Mara Thiene, Ashar Aftab, Andrea Pellegrini, and Francesco S. Bellelli, with multiple joint publications across their careers.

Scarpa's work has appeared repeatedly in prominent journals such as:

  • Land Economics
  • PLoS ONE
  • Journal of Agricultural Economics
  • Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
  • European Review of Agricultural Economics

Best Publications

  • Contemporary Guidance for Stated Preference Studies

    Robert J. Johnston;Kevin J. Boyle;Wiktor Adamowicz;Jeff Bennett

  • Design efficiency for non-market valuation with choice modelling: how to measure it, what to report and why*

    Riccardo Scarpa;John M. Rose

  • Tourism and Economic Growth in Latin American Countries: A Panel Data Approach

    Juan Luis Eugenio-Martín;Noelia Martín Morales;Riccardo Scarpa

  • Designs with a priori information for nonmarket valuation with choice experiments: A Monte Carlo study

    Silvia Ferrini;Silvia Ferrini;Riccardo Scarpa

  • Willingness-to-pay for renewable energy: Primary and discretionary choice of British households’ for micro-generation technologies

    Riccardo Scarpa;Kenneth G. Willis

  • Utility in Willingness to Pay Space: A Tool to Address Confounding Random Scale Effects in Destination Choice to the Alps

    Riccardo Scarpa;Mara Thiene;Kenneth Train

  • Modelling attribute non-attendance in choice experiments for rural landscape valuation

    Riccardo Scarpa;Timothy J. Gilbride;Danny Campbell;David A. Hensher

  • Destination Choice Models for Rock Climbing in the Northeastern Alps: A Latent-Class Approach Based on Intensity of Preferences

    Riccardo Scarpa;Mara Thiene

  • Performance of Error Component Models for Status-Quo Effects in Choice Experiments

    Riccardo Scarpa;Silvia Ferrini;Kenneth Willis

  • Applications of simulation methods in environmental and resource economics

    Riccardo Scarpa;Anna Alberini

  • Consumers’ perception of quality in organic food: A random utility model under preference heterogeneity and choice correlation from rank‐orderings

    Gianni Cicia;Teresa Del Giudice;Riccardo Scarpa

  • Inferred and Stated Attribute Non-attendance in Food Choice Experiments

    Riccardo Scarpa;Raffaele Zanoli;Viola Bruschi;Simona Naspetti

  • Incorporating discontinuous preferences into the analysis of discrete choice experiments

    Danny Campbell;W. George Hutchinson;Riccardo Scarpa

  • Ordering effects and choice set awareness in repeat-response stated preference studies

    Brett Day;Ian J. Bateman;Richard T. Carson;Diane Dupont

  • Benefit estimates for landscape improvements: sequential Bayesian design and respondents' rationality in a choice experiment

    Riccardo Scarpa;Danny Campbell;W. George Hutchinson

  • Effects on Welfare Measures of Alternative Means of Accounting for Preference Heterogeneity in Recreational Demand Models

    Stephen Hynes;Nicholas Hanley;Riccardo Scarpa

  • The quasar relation through cosmic time – II. Evidence for evolution from z = 3 to the present age

    R. Decarli;R. Decarli;R. Falomo;A. Treves;M. Labita

  • The quasar M_bh - M_host relation through Cosmic Time II - Evidence for evolution from z=3 to the present age

    R. Decarli;R. Falomo;A. Treves;M. Labita

  • Valuing indigenous cattle breeds in Kenya: An empirical comparison of stated and revealed preference value estimates

    Riccardo Scarpa;Eric S.K Ruto;Patti Kristjanson;Maren Radeny

  • The effect of protest votes on the estimates of WTP for use values of recreational sites

    Elisabetta Strazzera;Margarita Genius;Riccardo Scarpa;George Hutchinson

  • Market Segmentation via Mixed Logit: Extra-Virgin Olive Oil in Urban Italy

    Riccardo Scarpa;Teresa Del Giudice

Frequent Co-Authors

Ken Willis
Ken Willis Newcastle University
C. Megan Urry
C. Megan Urry Yale University
Carlo Agostini
Carlo Agostini University of Padua
Aldo Treves
Aldo Treves University of Insubria
Joseph Buongiorno
Joseph Buongiorno University of Wisconsin–Madison
John M. Rose
John M. Rose University of Sydney
Ian J. Bateman
Ian J. Bateman University of Exeter
David A. Hensher
David A. Hensher University of Sydney
Jordan J. Louviere
Jordan J. Louviere University of South Australia
Rodolfo M. Nayga
Rodolfo M. Nayga Texas A&M University

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