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Stefano Carattini
Visiting Fellow
Stefano’s research focuses on the political economy and effectiveness of environmental policy. He has worked on waste and carbon taxation as well as more broadly on cooperation in the climate commons and the diffusion of climate policy.
Background
Stefano has a PhD in Economics from the University of Barcelona. He previously studied economics at the University of Lausanne and socio-economics at the University of Geneva. He is also a researcher at the Haute école de gestion in Geneva.
Key research interests
- Environmental and climate change economics
- Political economy
- Environmental taxes
- Policy evaluation
How green are economists?
The market for voluntary carbon offsets has grown steadily in the last decade, yet it remains a very small niche. While 10% of greenhouse gas emissions generated by transportation are … read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Grantham Workshop | Stefano Carattini 'Green taxes in a post-Paris world: are millions of nays inevitable?'
Stefano Carattini, Visiting Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute, will be the speaker for this seminar.
