Andrea Baranzini

Working paper  21 June, 2016

Green taxes in a post-Paris world: are millions of nays inevitable?

This paper addresses the question of the acceptability of cost-effective climate policy in a real-voting setting - the 2015 ballot on energy taxes in Switzerland. read more »

Stefano_Carattini
Working paper  18 February, 2016

Is taxing waste a waste of time? Evidence from a supreme court decision

Many people are against a garbage tax even though it often works. We study how a Supreme Court decision, mandating Vaud, a region of Switzerland, to implement a tax on … read more »

coal, carbon nuggets and euro banknote
Working paper  11 February, 2016

Seven reasons to use carbon pricing in climate policy

The idea of a global carbon price has been a recurrent theme in debates on international climate policy. Discarded at the Conference of Parties (COP) of Copenhagen in 2009, it … read more »

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