Stefano Carattini

Stefano Carattini is an Assistant Professor in Economics in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. He is also affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science.

He studies energy and environmental policy, behavioral economics, public economics, and political economy. His research combines policy evaluation, to examine how policies work, with empirical analyses of their political economy. He has also been working on cooperative (pro-social) behavior and the diffusion of green behaviors, practices, and technologies. He has published in several journals including Environmental and Resource Economics, the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, and Nature.

He is one of the recipients of the Heinz König Young Scholar Award, delivered by the Mannheim Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW). Prior to joining Georgia State, he was an Associate Research Scientist at Yale University, where he was also a Lecturer in the School of Public Health. He obtained a PhD in Economics from the University of Barcelona and a MSc in Economics from the University of Lausanne. He also holds a BA in Socio-economics from the University of Geneva.

Publications

• Ara Jo and Stefano Carattini (2021), "Trust and CO2 Emissions: Conditional Cooperation at a Global Scale", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 190:922-937

• Andrea Baranzini, Stefano Carattini, and Linda Tesauro (2021), "Designing Effective and Acceptable Road Pricing Schemes: Evidence from the Geneva Congestion Charge", Environmental and Resource Economics, 79:417-482

• Stefano Carattini and Andreas Loeschel (2021), "Managing Momentum in Climate Negotiations", Environmental Research Letters, 16(5): 051001

• Beatrice Petrovich, Stefano Carattini, and Rolf Wuestenhagen (2021), "The Price of Risk in Residential Solar Investments", Ecological Economics, 180: 106856

• Stefano Carattini, Greer Gosnell, and Alessandro Tavoni (2020), "How Developed Countries Can Learn from Developing Countries to Tackle Climate Change", World Development, 127: 104829

• Suchita Srinivasan and Stefano Carattini (2020), "Adding Fuel to Fire? Social Spillovers in the Adoption of LPG in India", Ecological Economics, 167: 106398

• Stefano Carattini, Eli Fenichel, Alexander Gordan, and Patrick Gourley (2020), "For Want of a Chair: Teaching Price Formation Using a Cap and Trade Game", Journal of Economic Education, 51(1): 52-66

• Stefano Carattini, Simon Levin, and Alessandro Tavoni (2019), "Cooperation in the Climate Commons", Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 13(2): 227-247

• Gwen Spencer, Stefano Carattini, and Richard B. Howarth (2019), "Short-term Interventions for Long-term Change: Spreading Stable Green Norms in Networks", Review of Behavioral Economics, 6(1): 53-93

• Stefano Carattini, Steffen Kallbekken, and Anton Orlov (2019), "How to Win Public Support for a Global Carbon Tax", Nature, 565: 289-291

• Stefano Carattini, Maria Carvalho, and Samuel Fankhauser (2018), "Overcoming Public Resistance to Carbon Taxes", Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 9:e531

• Stefano Carattini, Andrea Baranzini, and Rafael Lalive (2018), "Is Taxing Waste a Waste of Time? Evidence from a Supreme Court Decision", Ecological Economics, 148(C):131-151

• Andrea Baranzini, Nicolas Borzykowski, and Stefano Carattini (2018), "Carbon Offsets out of the Woods? Acceptability of Domestic vs. International Reforestation Programmes in the Lab", Journal of Forest Economics, 32:1-12

• Kenneth Gillingham, Stefano Carattini, and Daniel Esty (2017), "Lessons from First Campus Carbon-Pricing Scheme", Nature, 551: 27-29

• Stefano Carattini, Andrea Baranzini, Philippe Thalmann, Frédéric Varone, and Frank Vöhringer (2017), "Green Taxes in a Post-Paris World: Are Millions of Nays Inevitable?", Environmental and Resource Economics, 68(1) 97–128

• Andrea Baranzini, Jeroen van den Bergh, Stefano Carattini, Richard B. Howarth, Emilio Padilla, and Jordi Roca (2017), "Carbon Pricing in Climate Policy: Seven Reasons, Complementary Instruments, and Political-economy Considerations", Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 8:e462

• Andrea Baranzini and Stefano Carattini (2017), "Effectiveness, Earmarking and Labeling: Testing the Acceptability of Carbon Taxes with Survey Data", Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 19(1) 197-227

• Stefano Carattini and Alessandro Tavoni (2016), "How Green are Green Economists?", Economics Bulletin, 36(4) p.A224

• Stefano Carattini, Andrea Baranzini, and Jordi Roca (2015), "Unconventional Determinants of Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The Role of Trust", Environmental Policy & Governance 25(4) 243-257

• Andrea Baranzini and Stefano Carattini (2014), "Taxation of Emissions of Greenhouse Gases". In: Freedman B. (Ed.), Global Environmental Change, Springer