Silvia Tiezzi is an Associate Professor of Economic Policy at the Department of Economics and Statistics of the University of Siena. Previously, she served as Assistant Professor in Economics at the same institution.
Her research lies at the intersection of Consumption Theory, Behavioral and Experimental Public Economics, Health Economics, Environmental Economics, and Applied Microeconometrics. Her work focuses on intertemporal preferences, habit formation and addiction, the acceptability and distributive effects of Pigouvian taxation, health-related behaviours, environmental policy, panel data analysis, demand system estimation, and experimental methods.
She received her Laurea and Ph.D. from the University of Siena and an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge (UK). From 2012 to 2014, she was a Marie Curie Fellow at the Department of Social and Decision Sciences of Carnegie Mellon University (USA). She has also held visiting appointments at the Université de Montréal (Canada) and Monash University (Australia).
She is an External Affiliate of the Health Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) and a former Research Associate of the Pittsburgh Experimental Economics Laboratory (PEEL).