Veronica LEONI

Veronica Leoni is an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Management of Ca' Foscari University of Venice and a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the department of Economics of Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Veronica is also an adjunct researcher at the Department of Applied Economics of the Univesity of the Balearic Islands.

Research interests: tourism economics; environmental economics; applied econometrics

EDUCATION
2020 Ph.D. in Applied Economics, Department of Applied Economics, University of the Balearic Islands, ES
2014  M.Sc. in Tourism Economics and Management (TEaM), University of Bologna, IT
2011  Bachelor's in Tourism Economics, University of Bologna, IT

PUBLICATIONS

Leoni, V. (2020) "Stars vs lemons. Survival analysis of peer-to peer marketplaces: the case of Airbnb. Tourism Management" 

Leoni, V., Figini, P, Nilsson, W. (2020) "It's not all about the price. The determinants of occupancy rates in p2p accommodation: a methodological contribution."International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management 

Atsiz O., Leoni, V., Akova O. (2020) "Determinants of tourists' length of stay in cultural destinations: One-night versus longer stays. Forthcoming on " Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Insight 

Boto-Garcia D., Leoni, V. (2021)"Exposure to COVID-19 and Travel Intentions: Evidence from Spain." Forthcoming on Tourism Economics

Leoni, V., Nilsson, w.,(2021)"Dynamic pricing and revenues of Airbnb listings: estimating heterogeneous causal effects." Forthcoming onInternational Journal of Hospitality Management.

WORKING PAPERS

Boto-Garcia D., Leoni, V. "Travelled distance in times of pandemic: An endogenous switching regression approach"

GRANTS
Research Grant "Survey on climate change adaptation in coastal areas"- Ca' Foscari University of Venice- Supervisor Prof. Carlo Giupponi

Grant agreement between the University of the Balearic Islands and the ATB (Agencia de Turismo de las Islas Baleares).
Project Title: "Economic study on housing tourism rental in the Balearic Islands" (2017), joined with Figini P., Nilsson, W.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2016 - 2020  Adjunct Professor in Microeconomic Analysis of Tourism (code: 20513). Degree in Tourism - Double Degree in Business Administration  University of the Balearic Islands

2016-2019 Adjunct Professor in Tourism Economics (code: 20626). Degree in Economics- Undergraduate Course. University of the Balearic Islands

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2020 - Present  Research Grant Holder in the Department of Economics (SECS-P06) at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Supervisor: Dr. Carlo Giupponi
2020 - Present  Adjunct Researcher in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of the Balearic Islands
2018 - Present  Member of the COMET (Competitiveness, ecology, and tourism) Research Team. Research lines: [1] Competitiveness analysis of tourist destinations. [2] Environmental problems and competitiveness. 

AWARDS

September 2019  Best Ph.D. student presentation award at the International Workshop on Statistics and econometric methods applied to tourism, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (ES)

VISITING POSITIONS
September 2019 - December 2019 Visiting Ph.D. Student, Center for Advanced studies in Tourism, University of Bologna (Rimini Campus ) (IT)

OTHER EXPERIENCES/SKILLS
Citizen: Italian-French
Language Skills: Italian (native), English ( fluent), Spanish ( fluent), French ( fluent).
Main Statistical software: Stata
 

The updated list of my publications can be found on my personal site.

I have served as a reviewer for Tourism Economics, Tourism Management, and International Journal of Hospitality Management.