Working paper by Stefano Carattini on 4 Sep 2020
Cooperative behavior is essential for societies to thrive and for humanity to address local and global social dilemmas. This paper combines several large-scale surveys with different strategies for identifying trust, to shed new light on the determinants of cooperative behavior, including that needed to advance progress on climate change mitigation.
Working paper by Stefano Carattini, Martin Péclat, Andrea Baranzini on 5 Nov 2018
This paper investigates the role of ‘social spillovers’ in the adoption of new technologies. The authors find that the French-German language border in Switzerland acts as a barrier to social interactions and, eventually, to the adoption of new technologies – in this case solar PV. read more »
Working paper by Andrea Baranzini, Stefano Carattini, Martin Péclat on 17 Jul 2017
This research finds that households, businesses and farms are more likely to install solar panels if others in their neighbourhood have already done so, and in particular if existing installations … read more »
