Publications by Andrea Baranzini

Swiss Energy System 2050: Pathways to Net Zero CO2 and Security of Supply - Basic report

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Oliver Kröcher, Andrea Baranzini

This report aims at assessing pathways and formulating recommendations for the transformation of the Swiss energy system necessary to achieve the net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emission target by 2050 (BFE 2017a) set by the Federal Council taking into accou ...

Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences2022

Green Taxes in a Post-Paris World: Are Millions of Nays Inevitable?

Philippe Thalmann, Frank Vöhringer, Andrea Baranzini

Springer Verlag2017

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

Philippe Thalmann, Andrea Baranzini

Turning greenhouse gas emissions pledges into domestic policies is the next challenge for governments. We address the question of the acceptability of cost-effective climate policy in a real-voting setting. First, we analyze voting behavior in a large ball ...

Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy2016

The economic performance of Swiss drinking water utilities

Andrea Baranzini, Anne-Kathrin Faust

This paper measures the performance in terms of costs of Swiss drinking water utilities accounting for environmental factors. We estimate a translog stochastic variable cost frontier using two different techniques on an unbalanced panel of 141 water distri ...

Springer Verlag2014

Using measured instead of perceived noise in hedonic models

Philippe Thalmann, Andrea Baranzini, Caroline Schaerer

This paper compares the use of perceived and measured noise in a hedonic housing model. Although in theory the use of subjective variables is recommended, most empirical applications use measured noise variables. Merging different databases, we obtain a sa ...

Elsevier2010

Gradual Introduction of Coercive Instruments in Climate Policy

Philippe Thalmann, Andrea Baranzini

Acceptance is the key problem of carbon taxes. This chapter is about acceptance building, ie devising a mechanism for the gradual preparation of the population and the economy in order to implement a carbon tax. It draws on experiences in Switzerland, wher ...

2008

Using the hedonic approach to value natural land uses in an urban area: An application to Geneva and Zurich

Philippe Thalmann, Andrea Baranzini, Caroline Schaerer

We apply the hedonic model to the rental markets of the Geneva and Zurich urban areas, Switzerland, in order to assess the value of natural land uses and land use diversity. In order to construct variables to quantify land uses and patterns in the neighbou ...

2008

Do Foreigners Pay Higher Rents for the Same Quality of Housing in Geneva and Zurich?

Philippe Thalmann, Andrea Baranzini, Caroline Schaerer

The Geneva and Zurich housing markets are characterised by high proportions of foreigners and a large share of rental housing. This provides ideal conditions for testing whether foreigners pay more for the same quality of housing than Swiss households and ...

2008