Michele Baggio

Associate Professor

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Subject Areas: Environmental and Resource Economics, Health Economics, Applied Microeconomics.

I received a PhD. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of Maryland. From 2010 to 2013 I worked as a senior researcher and lecturer at the Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland. In 2013 I joined the Department of Economics and the Maritime Studies Program in Avery Point.

Ph.D., Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of Maryland 2012
M.Sc., Environmental Economics and Environmental Management, University of York 2001
B.Sc., Economics, University of Verona 1999

Research opportunities for students

Courses Taught:
Principles of Microeconomics
Intermediate Microeconomics
Empirical Methods in Economics I
Economics of the Oceans

Publications:

“Heat and Hate: How Temperature Triggers Discriminatory Violence.” Accepted Economics Letters (2026). (with R. Suryanarayana and S. Uchida)

“Racial Diversity and Team Performance: Evidence from the American Offshore Whaling Industry.” Accepted Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (2026). (with M. Coşgel)

“High Times and Troubled Relationships: Recreational Marijuana Laws and Intimate Partner Violence.” Economics and Human Biology (2024). Vol. 54: p.101399. (with A. Chong and R. Suryanarayana)

“Recreational Marijuana Laws and Junk Food Consumption.” Economics & Human Biology (2020). Vol. 39: 100922. (with A. Chong)

“Free Trade Agreements and World Obesity.” Southern Economic Journal (2020). Vol. 87(1): 30-49. (with A. Chong)

“Marijuana and Alcohol: Evidence Using Border Analysis and Retail Sales Data.” Canadian Journal of Economics (2020). Vol. 53(2):563-591.(with A. Chong and S. Kwon).

“Sex, Drugs, and Baby Booms.” Journal of Health Economics (2020) Vol. 70,  (with A. Chong and D. Simon).

“Evaluating the Effects of River and Stream Restorations: Evidence from Recreational Fishing.” Land Economics (2020) Vol. 96, 75-91 (with C. Towe, D. Trüssel, and A. Peter).

“The Effect of Anthropogenic and Environmental Factors in Coupled Human-Natural Systems: Evidence from Lake Zürich.” Natural Resource Modeling (2019) (with J.-P. Chavas, S. Di Falco, A. Hertig, and F. Pomati).

”Is Access to Medical Marijuana a Disamenity?” Economics Bulletin (2017) Vol. 37 No. 2 p.A114 (with J. Choi).

“Optimal management with reversible regime shifts.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizations (2016) Vol. 132, 124-136 (with P. L. Fackler).

“Short-run economic benefits from water quality improvements: An application to the American lobster fishery of Long Island Sound.” Estuaries and Coasts (2016) Vol. 39(6), 1816-1826.

“Optimal Fishery Management with Regime Shifts: An Assessment of Harvesting Strategies.” Environmental and Resource Economics (2016) Vol. 64(3), 465-492.

“Modelling adaptation in multi-state resource systems.” Ecological Economics (2015) Vol. 116, 378-386 (with C. Perrings).

“On the Consumer Value of Diversity.”Journal of Agricultural Economics (2011) Vol. 62(3), 604-629 (with J.-P. Chavas).

“Estimating Weight-Length Relationships without Individual Weight Data. An application to the American lobster (Homarus americanus) of Long Island Sound.”Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries (2011) Vol. 21(4), 771-777.

“On Duality and the Benefit Function.”Journal of Economics (2010) Vol. 99(2), 173-184 (with J.-P. Chavas).

“On the Consumer Value of Complementarity: A Benefit Function Approach.”American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2009) Vol. 91(2), 489-502 (with J.-P. Chavas).