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

Dr. Ermanno Affuso

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

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

Courses

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