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

NEW!!! 3rd edition of the International Summer school in Discrete choice modeling in Venice

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

• Visiting 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)

2010. Vermeulen, B., Goos, P., Scarpa, R. and Vandebroek, M. L. Conjoint Choice Designs to Measure the WTP. Forthcoming in Environmental and Resource Economics. Accepted in April 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? Forthcoming in Land Economics, November volume 86 issue 4. Accepted in November 2009.

PUBLISHED (only from 2007)

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.

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 2008. Thiene, M. and Scarpa, R. Hiking in the Alps: exploring substitution patterns of hiking destinations, Tourism Economics, 14(2):263-282.

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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.

20. 2007. Roessler, R., A. G. Drucker, R. Scarpa, A. Markemann, U. Lemke, L. T. Thuy, A. Valle Zárate. Using choice experiments to assess smallholder farmers' preferences for pig breeding traits in different production systems in North–West Vietnam, Ecological Economics, 66(1):184-192.

21. 2007. Scarpa, R., Campbell, D. Hutchinson, W. G. Benefit estimates for landscape improvements: sequential Bayesian design and respondents’ rationality in a choice experiment study. Land Economics. (November) 83(4):617-634.

22. 2007. Scarpa, R., Thiene, M., and Marangon, F. The value of collective reputation for environmentally-friendly production methods: the case of Val di Gresta carrots. Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization, 5(1):article7.

23. 2007. Scarpa, R., Thiene, M., and T. Tempesta, Latent class count models of total visitation demand: days out hiking in the eastern Alps. Environmental and Resource Economics, 38(4):447-460.

24. 2007. Scarpa, R., Willis, K., Acutt M. Valuing externalities from water supply: status-quo, choice complexity and individual random effects in panel kernel logit analysis of choice experiments. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 50(4):449-466.

25. 2007. Ferrini, S., and Scarpa, R., Designs with a-priori information for nonmarket valuation with choice-experiments: a Monte Carlo study, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 53:342-363.

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