Biography
The research of Dr. Dall'erba and of his group focuses on regional economic analysis and spatial interaction models (spatial econometrics, interregional input-output, structural gravity models). Applications of his work deal with regional economic growth, innovation systems, environmental accounts and the impact of climate change - including extreme events - on agriculture.
Research Interests
My research interests focus on regional science in general and economic growth, regional development policies, innovation and the economic impact of climate change in particular. In addition to the traditional estimation of the dynamics at work, I study each of these fields by modelling and measuring the general equilibrium that results from the spatial interactions taking place between regions and economic sectors. In that purpose, I use various tools of regional science but mostly spatial statistics, spatial econometrics, interregional input-output and structural gravity models. I have published nearly 60 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on these topics and with those tools - some of them co-authored with my past and current graduate students - and I have been awarded various grants by, among others, NSF, NASA and USDA as well as various awards (RSPP and Regional Studies Association Best Paper Awards, Tiebout Prize, Epainos Prize) for my work. My research always attempts to provide a range of exposure to new curricula materials, methods of conducting interdisciplinary and international collaborative research and guidance in the preparation of material for dissemination in the public policy arena. I have given lectures as the keynote speaker at several international conferences in the US, South Korea, Brazil, Spain and have been an invited Professor in various universities and government agencies in Mexico, China, Turkey, Colombia and the US. Recently, I have been elected to represent the North American Regional Science Council at the Regional Science Association International over 2019-2021. Since 2015 I am the Director of the Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (REAL, www.real.illinois.edu), a research group working on theories, applications and quantitative tools to model urban, regional and interregional economic systems. In 2021 I co-founded the Center for Climate, Regional, Environmental and Trade Economics (CREATE, http://create.ace.illinois.edu/) of which goal is to study the impact of climate change and environmental accounts based on system-wide techniques developed in regional economics and trade economics.
Education
- Postdoctoral Visiting-Scholar at the Department of Spatial Economics, Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2005-2006.
- Postdoctoral Visiting-Scholar at REAL, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004-2005.
- PhD, Department of Economics, University of Pau (France), 2004
- MSc, Department of Economics, University of Pau (France), 2000
Courses Taught
- Spring: ACE 264 - Applied Statistical Methods and Data Analytics II
- Spring and Fall: ACE 594 - CREATE seminars
- Spring: ACE 532 - Spatial Econometrics
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Agricultural and Consumer Economics
Director of Graduate Studies, Agricultural and Consumer Economics
Director of Graduate Recruiting & Admissions, Agricultural and Consumer Economics
Professor, European Union Center
Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Professor, Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies
Professor, Center for Digital Agriculture, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Recent Publications
Dall’erba, S., Riemer, N., Xu, Y., Xu, R., & Yao, Y. (Accepted/In press). Identifying the key atmospheric and economic drivers of global carbon monoxide emission transfers. Economic Systems Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/09535314.2023.2300787
Ayala García, J., Dall’erba, S., & Ridley, W. C. (2023). The impact and externalities of natural disasters on local tax revenue in Colombia. Regional Studies, 57(5), 857-867. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2022.2104830
Nava, N. J., Ridley, W., & Dall'erba, S. (2023). A model of the U.S. food system: What are the determinants of the state vulnerabilities to production shocks and supply chain disruptions? Agricultural Economics (United Kingdom), 54(1), 95-109. https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12750
Ayala-García, J., & Dall'Erba, S. (2022). The impact of preemptive investment on natural disasters. Papers in Regional Science, 101(5), 1087-1103. https://doi.org/10.1111/pirs.12700
Gao, X., Dall'erba, S., Ellison, B., Avelino, A. F. T., & Yang, C. (2022). When one cannot bypass the byproducts: Plastic packaging waste embedded in production and export. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 26(4), 1460-1474. https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13282