Welcome to Riccardo Scarpa’s minimalist web-page with selected pointers to research work

My CV is accessible here

My publications here (disregard those about astronomy, that R. Scarpa is not me!!)

Complete REPEC list accessible here

Ranked U-Waikato economics Working Papers list accessible from here

Adjunct Professorial and Visiting Professor Positions

• Research Professor at Center for the Study of Choice, Faculty of Business, University of Technology, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Adjunct Professorial Fellow Institute of Advanced Studies, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

Editorial links

• Associate Editor for the J. of Choice Modeling

• Associate Editor for the Environment and Resource Economics The official Journal of the EAERE

ACCEPTED AND FORTHCOMING PAPERS

(IF INTERESTED, PLEASE ASK ME FOR A COPY OF THESE)

Stithou M. and R. Scarpa, 2011. Collective versus voluntary payment in contingent valuations for the conservation of marine biodiversity: an exploratory study from Zakynthos, Greece, Ocean and Coastal Management, Accepted: October 2011
Day, B., I. Bateman, R. Carson, D. Dupont, Jordan J. Louviere, S. Morimoto, R. Scarpa, and P. Wang. 2011. Ordering Effects and Choice Set Awareness in Repeat-Response Stated Preference Studies, Forthcoming in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Accepted: Sept 2011
Thiene, M., Scarpa, R. Galletto L. Boatto V. Determinants of WTP for Prosecco wine: a latent class regression with attitudinal responses. Forthcoming in British Food Journal. Accepted: August 2011.
Nocella, G., Boecker, A., Hubbard, L. and Scarpa, R. Eliciting consumer preferences for certified animal-friendly foods: can elements of the theory of planned behavior improve choice experiment analysis? Forthcoming in Psychology and Marketing. Accepted: June 2011.

PUBLISHED (only from 2008)

2011. Campbell, D. and Hensher, D. A. and Scarpa, R. Non-attendance to attributes in environmental choice analysis: a latent class specification. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 54(8):1061-1076
2011. Willis, Ken, R. Scarpa, Rose Gilroy and Neveen Hamza, Renewable energy adoption in an ageing population: Heterogeneity in preferences for micro-generation technology adoption, Published electronically in August, 2011, Energy Policy, 39(10):6021-6029
2011. Cicia, G. and L. Cembalo, T. del Giudice, and R. Scarpa, The impact of country-of-origin information on consumer perception of environmental environment-friendly characteristics, International Journal on Food System Dynamics, 2(1):106-111,
2011. Marsh, D., Mkwara, L. and Scarpa. R. 2011. Do Respondents’ Perceptions of the Status Quo Matter in Non-Market Valuation with Choice Experiments? An Application to New Zealand Freshwater Streams. Sustainability 2011, 3(9), 1593-1615; doi:10.3390/su3091593
2011. Scarpa, R., S. Notaro, J.J. Louviere and R. Raffaelli. Exploring Scale Effects of Best/Worst Rank Ordered Choice Data to Estimate Benefits of Tourism in Alpine Grazing Commons. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 93(3): 813–828;
2011. Scarpa R. and M. Thiene. Organic food choices and Protection Motivation Theory: addressing the psychological sources of heterogeneity. Accepted in March 2011. Food quality and preferences. 22(6)532-541.
2011. Vermeulen, B., Goos, P., Scarpa, R. and Vandebroek, M. L. Bayesian Conjoint Choice Designs to Measure the WTP. Environmental and Resource Economics, 48:129-149

2010

2010. Scarpa, R., M. Thiene, and D. A. Hensher, Monitoring choice task attribute attendance in non-market valuation of multiple park management services: Does it matter? Land Economics, November volume 86 issue 4, 817-839;

(http://le.uwpress.org/cgi/reprint/86/4/817)

2010. Co-editor of special issue with Stephane Hess, Specification and interpretation issues in behavioural models used for environmental assessment, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Volume 15, Issue 7, Pages 367-442 (October 2010)
2010. Nocella, G., Lionel Hubbard, L., and R. Scarpa, 2010. Farm Animal Welfare, Consumer Willingness to Pay, and Trust: Results of a Cross-National Survey, Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 32(2): 275-297;

(http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aepp/ppp009)

2010. Beharry-Borg, N. and R. Scarpa. Valuing quality changes in Caribbean coastal waters for heterogeneous beach visitors, Ecological Economics 69:1124-39;

(http://dx.doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2009.12.007)

2010. Scarpa, R. and K. G. Willis, Willingness-to-pay for renewable energy: Primary and discretionary choice of British households’ for micro-generation technologies. Energy Economics, 32(1):129-136;

(http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2009.06.004)

2009. Scarpa R., Thiene M., Galletto L., Consumers WTP for wine with certified origin: preliminary results from Latent Classes based on attitudinal responses, special issue edited by Baourakis G. and Mattas K. on “Marketing Dynamics within the Global Trading System” in the Journal of Food Products Marketing, 15:231–248. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10454440902973377)
2009. Scarpa R., T. J. Gilbride, D. Campbell and D. A. Hensher, Modelling attribute non-attendance in choice experiments for rural landscape valuation. European Review of Agricultural Economics, 36(2):151-174 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbp012)
2009. Thiene, M. and R. Scarpa, Deriving and testing efficient estimates of WTP distributions in destination choice models, Environmental and Resource Economics, 44:379–395 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10640-009-9291-7
2009. Beharry-Borg, N., Hensher, D.A. and R. Scarpa, An analytical framework for joint vs separate decisions by couples in choice experiments: the case of coastal water quality in Tobago, Environmental and Resource Economics, 43(1)95-117. (Special Issues on Households edited by Prof. A. Munro, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10640-009-9283-7)
2009. Matthews, D.I. Hutchinson, W.G. and Scarpa, R. Testing the stability of the benefit transfer function for discrete choice contingent valuation data. Journal of Forest Economics, 15(1-2):131-146 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jfe.2008.03.007
2009. Campbell D., Hutchinson W. G., Scarpa, R. Using choice experiments to explore the spatial distribution of willingness to pay for rural landscape improvements, Environment and Planning A, 41: 97-111
2009. Kaval, P. Stithou, M. and Scarpa, R. Social values of biodiversity conservation: for the endangered loggerhead turtle and monk seal, International Journal of Ecological Economics and Statistics, 14:67-76.
2009. Kaval, P. Stithou, M. and Scarpa, R. Social values of biodiversity conservation: for the endangered loggerhead turtle and monk seal, International Journal of Ecological Economics and Statistics, 14:67-76.

25. 2008. Matthews, D.I. Hutchinson, W.G. and Scarpa R. Testing the stability of the benefit transfer function for discrete choice contingent valuation data. Journal of Forest Economics, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jfe.2008.03.007

26. 2008. Campbell, D., Hutchinson, W. G. and Scarpa, R. Incorporating discontinuous preferences into the analysis of discrete choice experiments. Environmental and Resource Economics. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10640-008-9198-8

27. 2008. Campbell D., Hutchinson W. G., Scarpa, R. Using choice experiments to explore the spatial distribution of willingness to pay for rural landscape improvements, Environment and Planning A, http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a4038

28. 2008. Scarpa R. and J. M. Rose. Design efficiency for non-market valuation with choice modelling: how to measure it, what to report and why, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 52:253-282

29. 2008. Scarpa, R., Thiene, M. and Train, K. Utility in Willingness to Pay Space: A Tool to Address Confounding Random Scale Effects in Destination Choice to the Alps, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 90(4):994-1010

30. 2008. Cembalo, L., Cicia, G., dl Giudice T., Scarpa, R., Tagliafierro, C. Beyond Agropiracy: The Case of Italian Pasta in the United States Retail Market, Agribusiness: an international journal, 24(3):403-413

31. 2008. Thiene, M. and Scarpa, R. Hiking in the Alps: exploring substitution patterns of hiking destinations, Tourism Economics, 14(2):263-282.

32. 2008. Hynes, S., Hanley N., and Scarpa, R. Effects on Welfare Measures of Alternative Means of Accounting for Preference Heterogeneity in Recreational Demand Models. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 90(4):1011-1027

33. 2008. Leon-Gonzalez, R. and Scarpa, R. Robust Benefit Function Transfer: A Bayesian Model Averaging Approach. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 56:(1)50-68

34. 2008. Ruto, E., Garrod. G. and Scarpa, R. Valuing animal genetic resources: a case study of cattle in Kenya using choice experiments. Agricultural Economics, 38:89-98

35. 2008. Scarpa, R., M. Thiene, F. Marangon. Using flexible taste distributions to value collective reputation for environmentally-friendly production methods. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 56:145-162.

Download files with list of references from my edited book with Anna Alberini (bib format here, MSword file here)

Freeware Software for econometrics

Vista (Visual Statistics System)

GRETL (Gnu Regression, Econometrics and Time-series Library)

Octave (A MatLab clone)

EasyReg (Easy Regression)

ECTS (Russell Davidson’s Econometrics software)

R (A S-plus – like environment, but better)

Specific Software for Discrete Choice Modeling:

DCM (it requires Ox)

Biogeme (Stand alone, works in a DOS window, or Linux, data must be saved in Unix format, need an Editor like TextPad or VIM)

For Hierarchical Bayes estimation in R there is also a package called “bayesm” designed by Peter Rossi (just google this), else you can use a free Gibbs sampler, such as WinBUGS

Links to co-authors and friends (in randomized order and mostly for my own convenience)

UK and Ireland

Europe