Academic Employment
since 2018 — Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics at Heidelberg University.
2016-2018 — Post-doctoral research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Education
2015 – PhD Economics, University of Zurich (Summa cum laudae)
2010 – MSc Finance, University of Lausanne (Thesis awarded 6/6)
2008 – BSc Finance, Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest (Thesis awarded 10/10)

Publications

• Balietti, A., Jaiswal, S. and Schäffer, D., 2024. Labor Market Impacts of Eco-Development Initiatives in Protected Areas. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 128.
• Balietti, A., Datta, S. and Veljanoska, S., 2022. Air pollution and child development in India. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 113, p.102624. Media coverage: Business Standard
• Balietti, A., Chesney, M. and Vargas, C., 2018. Long-Term Choices For Quinoa Farmers in Puno Peru. A Real Options Study. International Journal of Food and Agricultural Economics, 6, pp.1-19.
• Balietti, A., 2016. Trader types and volatility of emission allowance prices. Evidence from EU ETS Phase I. Energy Policy, 98, pp.607-620.
• Balietti, A., Bahn, O., Chesney, M., Gheyssens, J., Knutti, R., 2015. Is there room for geoengineering in the optimal climate policy mix?. Environmental Science and Policy, 48, pp.67-76.
• Balietti, A., and Gheyssens, J., 2016. Baseline choice and performance implications for REDD. Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy, 5(1), pp.79-124.

Books
Environmental Finance and Investments, Springer Texts in Business and Economics (2015), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, with M. Chesney, J. Gheyssens, and L. Taschini.
– A Chinese edition of this book has been published in 2016.

Working Papers

• Balietti, A., Budjan, A., Eymess, T., and A. Solda, Strategic Ignorance and Perceived Control — R&R at the Economic Journal.
  
• Tohidi, A., Balietti, S., Fraiberger, S., and A. Balietti, Divergence Between Predicted and Actual Perception of Climate Information — R&R at PNAS Nexus.
• Balietti, A., Budjan, A. and T. Eymess, Relative Income and Preferences for Public Goods
• Balietti, A. and T. Zeising, Racial Disparities in Environmental Auditing.

Work in progress

• Balietti, A. and D. Marino-Fages, Zero-sum Views and Preferences for Redistribution — Manuscript preparation
• Balietti, A., Aycinena, D., and  D. Marino-Fages, Aligned and Misaligned Incentives for Predicting US Election Results — Manuscript preparation
• Balietti, A., Solda, A., and MC Villeval, Memory Conformity and Social Norms — Data collection

Commissioned Projects

• 2016 – 2019 The Dutch Development Bank (FMO). Green products evaluation in rural India.
• 2017 – 2018 The Swiss Office for Meteorology and Climatology. The quinoa market and weather
  impacts in Peru.
• 2015 UN REDD Programme. The market for ecosystem services in Paraguay.

Grants

• 2023 – 2025, Institute for Replication (5,000 USD), Joint with: Diego Marino Fages (Durham University).
• 2020 – 2023, Federal Ministry of Education and Research Germany (180,000 EUR).
• 2020 – 2024, Andrea von Braun Foundation (40,000 EUR).
• 2020 – 2022, Joachim Herz Foundation (15,000 EUR).

Teaching

• Environmental Economics
• The Economics of Carbon Pricing
• Applied Empirical Methods
• Field Experiments Design