Dr. Ermanno Affuso

秘密研究所

Email Address:
eaffuso@southalabama.edu
Phone Number:
(251) 460-7908
Location:
MCOB 314

Professor, Economics and Finance

Chief Scientific Officer, SABRE (South Alabama Center for Business Analytics, Real Estate and Economic Development

Research Interests

Applied Microeconomics
Regional and Urban Economics
Natural Resources Economics and Environmental Policy

Education

Ph.D. Applied Economics, Auburn University.
M.S. Civil Environmental Engineering, Polytechnic University of Bari.
B.S. Civil Environmental Engineering, Polytechnic University of Bari.

Publications

Affuso, E. 2019. 鈥淐onsumer Welfare and Climate Change in Greenland鈥�, Energy Economics, forthcoming.
Affuso, E., S. B. Caudill, F. G. Mixon, Jr. and K. Starnes. 2018. 鈥淚s Airport Proximity an Amenity or Disamenity? An Empirical Investigation based on House Prices鈥�, Land Economics, vol. 95(3):391-408.
Affuso, E. and K. D. Lahtinen . 2018. 鈥淪ocial Media Sentiment and Market Behavior鈥�, Empirical Economics, vol. 57(1):105-127.
Affuso, E., J. R. Cummings and H. Le. 2018. 鈥淭he External Cost of Asbestos in the Housing Market鈥�, Applied Economics Letters, vol. 25(6):397-400.
Affuso, E., J. R. Cummings and H. Le. 2017. 鈥淲ireless Towers and Home Values: An Alternative Valuation Approach Using a Spatial Econometric Analysis鈥�, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, vol. 56(4):653-676.
Caudill, S. B., E. Affuso and Y. Ming 2015. 鈥淩egistered Sex Offenders and House Prices: An Hedonic Analysis.鈥�, Urban Studies, vol. 52(13):2425鈥�2440.
Affuso, E. and D. Hite. 2013. 鈥淎 Model for Sustainable Land Use in Biofuel Production: An Application to the State of Alabama.鈥�, Energy Economics, vol. 37, pp. 29-39.

Affuso, E. 2017. 鈥淭he Environmental Impact of El Nino Southern Oscillation Forecasts鈥�, Tropical Agriculture, vol. 94(1):31-41.
Affuso, E., D. Hite and N.W.L. Wilson. 2015. 鈥淎 Stochastic Frontier Analysis to Examine Research Priorities for Genetically Engineered Peanuts鈥� Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, vol. 47(3):359-381.
Affuso, E. and S.B. Caudill. 2015. 鈥淎 Linearization of the Maximum Entropy Formalism using Separable Programming.鈥� International Journal of Operational Research, vol. 22(4):385-404.
Caudill, S. B., E. Affuso and Y. Ming. 2014. 鈥淩egistered Sex Offenders and House Prices: An Hedonic Analysis.鈥� Urban Studies(July 2014), pp. 1-16.
Affuso, E. and F. G. Mixon, Jr.. 2014. 鈥淰irtual Water Trade in the North America Free Trade Agreement鈥�, Rivista di Economia Internazionale/International Economics, Vol. 67(3):319鈥�336.
Affuso, E. and L. M. Duzy. 2013. 鈥淭he impact of the U.S. biofuels expansion on agricultural production and nitrogen loads in Alabama鈥�, Economics Research International, Volume 2013, Article ID 521254, 16 pages.
Affuso, E., S. B. Caudill and F. G. Mixon, Jr.. 2013. 鈥淥mitted Variables Bias in Regime-Switching Models with Slope-Constrained Estimators: Evidence from Monte Carlo Experiments.鈥�, Journal of Statistical and Econometric Methods, vol. 2(3):49-55.
Affuso, E. and D. Hite. 2013. 鈥淎 Model for Sustainable Land Use in Biofuel Production: An Application to the State of Alabama.鈥�, Energy Economics, vol. 37, pp. 29-39.
Affuso, E., C. de Parisot, Chau-Sa Ho and D. Hite 2010. 鈥淭he Impact of Hazardous Waste on House Value: The Case of Lead Pollution鈥�, Urbani izziv/Urban Challenges, vol. 21(2):117-126.

Courses

ECO215 鈥� Principles of Microeconomics
ECO315 鈥� Intermediate Microeconomics
ECO318 鈥� Principles of Managerial Economics
ECO372 鈥� Urban Economics
ECO390 鈥� Environmental and Natural Resource Economics