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Andrea Baranzini

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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 Sciences 2022

Wie eine Abgabe auf CO2 Anklang findet

Philippe Thalmann, Frank Vöhringer, Andrea Baranzini

CO2– und andere Lenkungsabgaben gelten als ein wirksames Mittel zur Erreichung umwelt- und klimapolitischer Ziele. Teile der Öffentlichkeit begegnen solchen Abgaben allerdings mit Skepsis. Eine Untersuchung im Auftrag des Bundesamts für Energie benennt nun ...

2017

SEPIA - Social Cushioning of Energy Price Increases and Public Acceptability

Philippe Thalmann, Frank Vöhringer, Andrea Baranzini, Dario Stocker, Wolfgang Knoke

This report is about finding ways to make green taxes, such as taxes on 'dirty' energy, more acceptable, in particular by chosing a mode of revenue recycling that is prefered by the population. Thus, it investigates distributional and other effects of ener ...

2016

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

Tropical forest conservation: attitudes and preferences

Andrea Baranzini, Anne-Kathrin Faust

This paper applies contingent valuation to assess public awareness of tropical deforestation; to investigate the willingness to pay (WTP) to conserve tropical forests; and to determine the impact of the payment vehicle on the stated willingness to pay. Abo ...

Elsevier2010

Cost and performance of Swiss water distribution utilities

Andrea Baranzini, Anne-Kathrin Faust

The poster presents the preliminary results of a study on the costs and efficiency of water distribution utilities in Switzerland. Climate change, water scarcity and growing concerns about the performance of network industries are some of the elements that ...

2010

Water Supply: The cost structure of water utilities in Switzerland

Andrea Baranzini, Anne-Kathrin Faust

This paper estimates a translog cost function for Swiss water utilities. From the cost function, we are able to estimate measures of marginal costs as well as economies of production density, customer density and scale, which are important determinants in ...

HEG2009

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

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