Simone Severini

Dr. Simone Severini is professor in agricultural economics and policy at the University of Tuscia, Viterbo (Italy), delegate of the Rector for international relations and president of the Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics (AIEAA). Since he got his Ph.D. in 1998, he has extensively worked in the field of policy analysis and evaluation assessing the impact at farm level of measures such as direct payments, agri-environmental schemes, and risk management policies. Analyses have been performed by applying mathematical programming, econometric methods, and stochastic simulation methods at the individual farm level. The focus of such research and evaluation activities is on-farm production choices, income level, variability and distribution. He has also worked on the resi