Policy

Policy Papers 

"Decentralized Green Energy Transition Promotes Peace" (joint with Michael Lehning, Julia Steinberger, Nicolas Tetreault and Evelina Trutnevyte) , Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023. 

Acceptability of COVID-19 vaccine among hospital employees in the Department of Paediatrics, Gynaecology and Obstetrics in the University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland (joint with Anna Peirolo, Klara M. Posfay-Barbe, Noémie Wagner, Geraldine Blanchard-Rohner), Frontiers in Public Health, 2022.

"COVID-19 and Conflict: Major Risks and Policy Responses", Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, 2020.  Media coverage in De Standaard, Nieuwsblad. 

"The Economics of Conflict: A literature review and practitioner's guide for the foreign aid community" (English Version) / Economie des conflits: Revue de la littérature et guide à l'intention des acteurs de l'aide extérieure" (French Version), Revue d'économie du développement, 2018, 26: 5-25. 

"The Economics of Peace: Can "Swiss" Institutions Do the Job?", UBS Center Public Paper #5, December  2016.

CEPR Research and Policy Network (RPN) on Preventing Conflict: Policies for Peace

I am the leader of this expert group of the CEPR aiming at making known to a wider public the cutting-edge research findings on how to curb conflict. We among others organize conferences and webinars.

The website of our RPN is available under this link.

Enterprise for Society Center (E4S) Group on Evidence-Based Environmental Policy Advice

I am co-leader of this group together with Prof. Philippe Thalmann from the EPFL. Our goal is to formulate sound policy advice on environmental polices, based on cutting-edge research.

The website of E4S is available under this link.

Our first topic of focus is aviation taxation. We have issued a policy brief (available in English, French and German), and more recently the full White Paper (in English, French and German). Our work has been covered by the NZZ, Le Temps, Tribune de Genève, 24Heures, Tages-Anzeiger, Zürcher Oberländer, Der Bund, Basler Zeitung, Le Matin Dimanche.

Peace Talks: research and policy

Together with Quentin Gallea (University of Zurich) and Massimo Morelli (Bocconi) we have founded Peace Talks: research and policy, which is a webinar forum where academics present non-technically a paper on a pressing problem and then engage in a discussion with policy experts.