Stefano Carattini
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
Research articles
- Adding fuel to fire? Social spillovers in the adoption of LPG in India
29 Oct 2019. Suchita Srinivasan, Stefano Carattini - Green taxes in a post-Paris world: are millions of nays inevitable?
6 Apr 2017. Stefano Carattini - Effectiveness, earmarking and labeling: testing the acceptability of carbon taxes with survey data
1 Jan 2017. Andrea Baranzini, Stefano Carattini - How green are green economists?
7 Dec 2016. Stefano Carattini, Alessandro Tavoni - How green are green economists?
30 Nov 2016. Stefano Carattini, Alessandro Tavoni
Working papers
- Observing the unobservable: a field experiment on early adopters of a climate-friendly behavior
16 Jul 2021 - What does network analysis teach us about international environmental cooperation?
2 Jun 2021 - Trust, happiness, and pro-social behavior
4 Sep 2020 - Nudging when the descriptive norm is low: Evidence from a carbon offsetting field experiment
1 Sep 2020 - Trust, temperature fluctuations, and asylum applications
24 Aug 2020 - Carbon taxes and stranded assets: Evidence from Washington state
6 Aug 2019 - For want of a chair: teaching price formation using a cap and trade game
22 Mar 2019 - Adding fuel to fire? Social spillovers and spatial disparities in the adoption of LPG in India
8 Feb 2019 - Social interactions and the adoption of solar PV: evidence from cultural borders
5 Nov 2018 - Trust and CO2 emissions: Cooperation on a global scale
27 Mar 2018 - What drives social contagion in the adoption of solar photovoltaic technology?
17 Jul 2017 - Cooperation in the climate commons
18 Jan 2017 - Carbon offsets out of the woods? The acceptability of domestic vs. international reforestation programmes
5 Dec 2016 - How green are economists?
28 Jul 2016 - Green taxes in a post-Paris world: are millions of nays inevitable?
21 Jun 2016 - Seven reasons to use carbon pricing in climate policy
11 Feb 2016