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Impacts of global warming on energy use for heating and cooling with full rebound effects in Switzerland

Philippe Thalmann, Camille Gonseth, Marc Vielle

Global warming is expected to lower the energy demand for heating, which would contribute to a decline in CO2 emissions. This effect may be offset by energy needs for additional cooling and by the impacts of households that reinvest the money they save on ...

2017

Assessing the impacts of climate change for Switzerland

Philippe Thalmann, Marc Vielle, Frank Vöhringer, Boris Thurm, Sophie Maire, Anita Frehner, Dario Stocker, Wolfgang Knoke

Understanding the economic magnitude of climate change impacts is a prerequisite for developing adequate adaptation strategies. In Switzerland, despite new climate scenarios and impacts studies, only few impacts have been monetized. Our objective is to ass ...

2017

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

Emissions scenarios without measures 1990-2030

Philippe Thalmann, Bettina Schäppi, Marc Vielle

The goal of this study is to estimate the net impact of all measures implemented in the context of the Swiss energy and climate policies on CO2 emissions from combustion processes between 1990 and 2030. The study provides a projection of CO2 emissions unti ...

INFRAS EPFL2016

Underground Potential for Urban Sustainability: Mapping Resources and Their Interactions with the Deep City Method

Aurèle Parriaux, Philippe Thalmann, Michael Robert Doyle

In the process of urban growth, the underground is often only addressed once all surface alternatives have been exhausted. Experience shows that this can lead to unforeseen conflicts (e.g., subsidence, groundwater pollution) and to lost opportunities (e.g. ...

Mdpi Ag2016

Energy-Tax Changes and Competitiveness: The Role of Adaptive Capacity

Philippe Thalmann, Camille Gonseth

This paper estimates the effect of energy tax (and price) changes on Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and net trade at the industry level, using a panel of industries from European countries covering the period 1990-2003. We investigate the hypothesis that ...

Elsevier2015

Exploring barriers to climate change adaptation in the Swiss tourism sector

Philippe Thalmann, Cecilia Matasci

Increasingly, various sectors are affected by climate change and need to find ways to adapt with much public guidance and support. This paper examines the adaptation process of a sector that started it some time ago - Swiss Alpine tourism. It identifies ba ...

Springer Verlag2014

Analyse des barrières à l'assainissement énergétique des bâtiments dans le canton de Vaud

Philippe Thalmann, François Richard Vuille, Philippe Bélanger

Les propriétaires immobiliers du canton de Vaud font très peu appel aux subventions du Programme Bâtiments qui encourage les rénovations énergétiques. L’étude «Analyse des barrières à l'assainissement énergétique des bâtiments dans le canton de Vaud» manda ...

2014

Climate change in Switzerland: A review of physical, institutional and political aspects

Philippe Thalmann

Climate change is clearly discernible in observed climate records in Switzerland. It impacts on natural systems, ecosystems, and economic sectors such as agriculture, tourism, and energy, and it affects Swiss livelihood in various ways. The observed and pr ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

An Integrated Planning Concept for the Emerging Underground Urbanism: Deep City Method Part 1 Concept, process and application

Aurèle Parriaux, Philippe Thalmann, Huanqing Li

Four underground resources have been seen as having a long-term potential to support sustainable urban development: underground space, groundwater, geomaterials and geothermal energy. Utilization of these resources proposes a new paradigm of economic devel ...

Elsevier2013

An Integrated Planning Concept for the Emerging Underground Urbanism: Deep City Method Part 2 Case study for resource supply and project valuation

Aurèle Parriaux, Philippe Thalmann, Huanqing Li

Elsevier2013

Housing market equilibrium (almost) without vacancies

Philippe Thalmann

The Swiss housing market is characterised by an extraordinarily low vacancy rate, generally in the vicinity of 1%. Is it permanently in a condition of severe shortage? This paper uses both a standard non-accelerating rent inflation rate of vacancy approach ...

2012

Les fluctuations des marchés immobiliers: Cycles ou bulles? / Schwankungen an den Immobilienmärkten: Zyklen oder Blasen?

Philippe Thalmann

Les prix des immeubles, mais aussi les volumes de construction, sont soumis à des fluctuations bien plus fortes que d’autres secteurs de l’économie. Celles-ci sont encore difficiles à expliquer et à prédire avec précision. Elles dé- pendent, néanmoins, tou ...

2010

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

Trade-offs and performances of a range of alternative global climate architectures for post-2012

Philippe Thalmann, Ronal Gainza Carmenates, Juan Carlos Altamirano Cabrera

Quantitative assessments help to highlight the main features of climate policies by better identifying their strengths and weaknesses. In this study, we develop a grading system for assessing thirteen proposals for post-2012 climate policy. We believe that ...

2010

Quel taux de logements vacants pour qu’on puisse parler d’équilibre ?

Philippe Thalmann

On utilise habituellement un taux de logement vacant de 1,5% comme limite, en Suisse, entre un marché en pénurie ou en équilibre. Ce chiffre est-il bien fondé? Cette note propose une alternative en résumant une recherche de grande ampleur. ...

2010

Stakeholder-based Scenarios for Post-2012 Climate Policy: A Participatory Approach

Philippe Thalmann, José Luis Carrasco Terceros, Ronal Gainza Carmenates, Juan Carlos Altamirano Cabrera

We performed a study to define the key elements of feasible global climate policy scenarios for the post-2012 UNFCCC regime by contacting – through a series of questionnaires – 149 stakeholders involved in climate-change discussions. We applied a Multiple ...

2009

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

'I pay enough taxes already!' Applying economic voting models to environmental referendums

Philippe Thalmann, Nicholas Bornstein

Objectives. Models of economic voting have rarely been applied to referendum votes. We fill this gap by testing citizens’ voting behavior on environmental policy in relation to their perception of the business cycle. Thus, the study examines the personal, ...

2008

Gradual Introduction of Coercive Instruments in Climate Policy

Philippe Thalmann, Andrea Baranzini

Acceptance is the key problem of carbon taxes. This chapter is about acceptance building, ie devising a mechanism for the gradual preparation of the population and the economy in order to implement a carbon tax. It draws on experiences in Switzerland, wher ...

2008

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