Research
Working papers and work in progress
"Panic politics on the US West Coast". With Nicolas Berman and Bjoern Brey. CEPR Discussion Papers #17874.
"Inequality and social unrest in India". With Mathieu Couttenier and Lore Vandewalle.
"The economics of violence against civilians". With Maleke Fourati and Victoire Girard. Media coverage: VoxEU column.
"Target-Consistent Climate Policies". With Renaud Bourlès and Jean-Charles Rochet.
"Labor Income in Free Access, Private Ownership, and Informality" with Julien Daubanes, Kyungbo Han and Emmanuel Milet.
"Credit and Voting", with Giacomo De Giorgi and Eleonora Brandimarti.
"Information curse". With Olivier Bochet, Aleksei Chernulich and Justin Leroux.
"Networks with altruism and public goods". With Renaud Bourlès, Ariadna Fossas-Tenas and Jérôme Kasparian.
"The geography of business groups". With Luisa Gagliardi, Frédéric Robert-Nicoud and Grigorios Spanos.
"Rights on What is Left: An Axiomatic Discussion of Grandfathering" with Justin Leroux.
Some recent publications
"Ethnic Conflicts and the Informational Dividend of Democracy". With Dominic Rohner and Mathias Thoenig. Journal of the European Economic Association. 2024. Volume 22, Issue 1, Pages 73–116 . CEPR Discussion Papers #14182.
"Paradoxical effects of altruism on efforts to mitigate climate change". With Ariadna Fossas-Tenas, Bastiaan W. Ibelings, Jérôme Kasparian and Jaya Krishnakumar. 2022. Scientific Reports.
"Distance Learning in Higher Education: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment", with Paula Cacault, Christian Hildebrand and Michele Pellizzari. CEPR Discussion Papers #13666. Journal of the European Economic Association. 2021, vol 19 (4), pp2322–2372.
A short video on the main results of the paper.
media coverage: Le Temps (in french), La Tribune de Geneve (in french), ScienMag, Heidi.news (in french), VoxEU column, 20 minutes (in french), Journal de l'Unige (in French), RTS (in French).
"Property Rights, Land Disputes and Water Scarcity", with Salvatore Di Falco, Marcella Veronesi and Gunnar Kohlin. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2020 (1), 54-71 .
"Collective Risk-Taking in the Commons", with Olivier Bochet, Justin Leroux and Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, vol. 163, pp 277-296.
"Water Scarcity and Rioting: Disaggregated Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa", with Christian Almer and Manuel Oechslin. Journal of Environmental Economics & Management, 2017, Vol. 86, pp 193-209.
media coverage: nexus media (US), RTS (Swiss radio, in french), Science et Vie (in french).
"Ownership Risk and the Use of Common Natural Resources", with Marc Santugini. Journal of Environmental Economics & Management, 2012, Vol. 63(2), pages 242-259.
"Environmental policy, innovation and performance: new insights on the Porter hypothesis", with Paul Lanoie, Nick Johnstone and Stefan Ambec
Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2011, 20 (3), 803-842.
"Choosing and Sharing”, with Justin Leroux. Games and Economic Behavior, 2011, Vol. 73(1), pages 296-300.
Book Chapters
"Unextractable minerals and metals for the energy transition" with E Trutnevyte (eds), Peace not Pollution: How Going Green Can Tackle Climate Change and Toxic Politics, CEPR Press, London. https://cepr.org/chapters/unextractable-minerals-and-metals-energy-transition
"Energy consumption of buildings–Direct impacts of a warming climate and rebound effects" with R Winkler, C Almer, C Gonseth, P Thalmann, M Vielle. Toward quantitative scenarios of climate change impacts in Switzerland
"Haggling on the Verge of Disaster" with Justin Leroux, Sinclair-Desgagné Bernard. Analyzing Global Environmental Issues. Routledge New York and London.