Edi Defrancesco

edi.defrancesco@unipd.it

Telefono

0498272721

Ricevimento

Il martedì mattina al termine della lezioneDip. TESAF Agripolis, 3rd floor 1st 'Stecca'At the end of each lecture or on appointment by delivering an email at edi.defrancesco@unipd.it

Profilo

Born in Cavalese (Trento) Italy, November 29th 1957.Bachelor's degree ‘summa cum laude’ in Economics and statistics at the University of Padova (1980).PhD. in Agricultural Economics at University of Bologna (1987)Associate professor of Agricultural Economics, University of Venezia, Faculty of Economics (1987-1990)Associate professor of Agricultural Economics, University of Padova, Faculty of Agriculture (1991-1999)Full professor of Agricultural Economics, University of Padova, Faculty of Agriculture (since 1999)Member of scientific and teaching staff PhD Programme on Agricultural Economics at the University of Padova (since 1997)IAAE Member (International Association of Agricultural Economists)EAAE Member (European Association of Agricultural Economists)SIDEA Member (Italian Association of Agricultural Economists)AIEAA Member (Italian Association of agricultural an applied economics)SIEA Member (Italian Association of agro-food economics)IIFET (International Institute of Fishery Economics)Around 180 publications both at the international and the national level as a result of her research activities.Current areas of research include: i) food consumption, consumer preferences for quality food e.g. organic, PDO, PGI and functional food. Price analysis in differentiated markets; ii) the EU food quality policy, EU value-adding quality schemes and international protection issues iii) environmental economic assessment, environmental damage evaluation.Other research areas: i) Common agricultural and rural development policy analysis; ii) managerial economics, agribusiness economics and food industry analysis.