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The end of urban sprawl? Internal migration across the rural-urban continuum in Switzerland, 1966-2018
In high-income countries, migration redistributed populations from congested city centres into the sparsely populated outskirts, raising challenges to environmental and population health and the conservation of biodiversity. We evaluate whether this periur ...
WILEY2022Socio-economic determinants of sprawl: causes and consequences of urban growth in Swiss municipalities
In Switzerland, as elsewhere, over the past decades, urban areas have spread outwards â consuming the surrounding countryside in the process. The result has been an urban growth associated with negative effects such as the loss of cultivated land.
Sprawl ...
EPFL2019Catalyst design for the transformation of CO2 into value-added products.
The mass-utilization of fossil resources has led to a dramatic increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) production, most of which is released directly into the Earth's atmosphere, resulting in global warming. Efforts to contain CO2 emissions and to capture, store ...
EPFL2018How Does Tax Progressivity and Household Heterogeneity Affect Laer Curves?
How much additional tax revenue can the government generate by increasing labor income taxes? In this paper we provide a quantitative answer to this question, and study the importance of the progressivity of the tax schedule for the ability of the governme ...
NBER Working Paper2015Linking electricity prices and costs in bottom-up top-down coupling under changing market environments
Philippe Thalmann, Frank Vöhringer, Sophie Maire
We couple top-down and bottom-up models to analyse electricity markets. We simulate energy policies under alternative regulatory assumptions. We shows that market liberalisation affects the links between generation costs and user prices. We show that the c ...
EPFL LEURE2015A Metamodel of the Oil Game under Climate Treaties
A climate treaty like the one which should replace the Kyoto Protocol after 2012, may have important impacts on the oil, gas and coal markets. The full impact of such a treaty will not be felt before 2030. In this paper one uses a computable general equili ...
2011Is U.S. Fiscal Policy Optimal?
We find and compare two simple fiscal rules. The first is a theoretical rule that approximates well Ramsey-optimal fiscal policy in a DSGE model calibrated to the U.S. economy over the period 1955:1 to 2007:3. The second is an empirical rule that approxima ...
Center for Fiscal Policy Working Paper Series2008Voting on the Environment: Price or Ideology? Evidence from Swiss Referendums
Studies on preferences for environmental quality usually posit that price and income explain most of the observed choices. However, we argue that conceptions of social norms and the common good are equally important when analyzing environmental voting outc ...
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