Professional address: Burgundy School of Business, 29 rue Sambin, 21000 Dijon, France
Email: eli.spiegelman@bsb-education.com
Citizenship: US; Canadian; French
Research
Fields of specialization: behavioral economics, experimental economics.
Key interests: pro-environmental behavior; communication and deception, ethics, emotions, beliefs, awareness, risk and ambiguity, group effects, collective motivations
Professional skills
Research:
Experimental design; programming (expert zTree, limited oTree); lab session management; data analysis (mainly STATA, some MATLAB, R experience); writing (BA in journalism)
Teaching:
Course design from syllabus to evaluation; pedagogical technology (Teams/SharePoint, Moodle, Kahoot)
Languages:
English C2; French C1; Spanish B2
Economics education
Ph.D. economics (2005-2012). UQÀM. Defense April, 2012: Highest honors (mention excellent)
Thesis: “It’s like I told you,” Essays on the economic effects of interpersonal communication.
M.A. economics (2001-2003). McGill University, Montreal.
Final research project: Fair trade coffee as an institutional adaptation in Mexico.
Academic work experience
2016-present: Associate Professor. Burgundy School of Business, Dijon, France
Teaching: ¨ Developed and delivered curriculum, teaching and evaluation materials for Bachelor and Master levels courses in quantitative methods, economics, economic psychology. ¨ Coordinated adjunct teaching staff.
Research: ¨ Conducted experimental economics research with the LESSAC behavioral group. ¨ Participated in five successful ANR grant applications, as well as one industry contract. ¨ Co-organized departmental seminars, inviting external researchers and facilitating their stays locally. ¨ Helped organize three international conferences: ESA Dijon, September 5-7, 2019, AFSEE Dijon, September 2-3, 2021, and SEET Dijon, April 2025.
Service: ¨ Directed up to 14 MA theses per year using a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods. ¨ President of Research Ethics Committee: oversaw comprehensive overhaul of ethical approval process for research done at BSB. ¨ Faculty liaison for Student Ethics Committee: met with students to discuss aspects of student life where ethical problems occur, and how to encourage ethical responsibility among the student body.
2014-2015: Post-doctoral researcher. Tilburg University, Netherlands.
Research: ¨ Eye-tracking and preference reversals: Programmed ztree experiment, integrated it into an eye-tracking study. Recruited subjects, managed sessions. Analysed eye-tracking data. ¨ Evolution of social preferences: Elaborated theoretical model adapting indirect evolutionary mechanisms to a trust game, including an R-based simulation to evaluate theoretically indeterminate outcomes. Programmed z-tree.
2004-2016: Professor, Vanier College, St. Laurent, Quebec
Teaching: ¨ Courses taught: Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, International Economic Relations, Ecological Economics, Statistics and Social Science Research Methods. ¨ Instituted macroeconomics essay competition.
Research: ¨ Launched pilot experimental laboratory. ¨ Ran in-class and laboratory research.
Service: ¨ Curriculum committee for macroeconomics course. ¨ Research methods committee to harmonize course material across disciplines. ¨ Institutional policy committee.
Published Research
Romaniuc, R. et al. (2025) The limits of behavioral nudges to increase youth turnout: Experimental evidence from two French elections. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 236 (Aug 2025), 107098.
Ajdukovic, I., Spiegelman, E. & Sutan, A. (2025) Collective motivations leverage conservation of intergenerational public goods. An experiment. Ecological Economics, 230, 108523
Malézieux A, Spiegelman E. (2025) An anatomical review of the common pool resource game. Experimental Economics. Published online 2025:1-24. doi:10.1017/eec.2024.6 .
Alia, H. & Spiegelman, E. (2024) Collective intentions of the social economy: an experiment on the community currency of the French Basque country. Rationality and Society. 37(1) 92-125.
López-Pérez, R., & Spiegelman, E. (2024). Easier comparison of bets in evaluation does not reduce classical preference reversals: Evidence against a context-dependent explanation. PlosONE 19(1), e0292011.
Leibbrandt, A., López-Pérez, R., & Spiegelman, E. (2023). Reciprocal, but inequality averse as well? Mixed motives for punishment and reward. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 210, 91-116.
Gassmann, X., Malézieux, A., Tisserand, J.-C. & Spiegelman, E. (2022) Preferences after pan(dem)ics: time and risk in the shadow of COVID-19. Judgment and Decision Making. 17(4) pp. 745-767.
Spiegelman, E. (2021) Esteemed colleagues: a model of the effect of open data on the selective reporting of scientific results. Frontiers in Psychology. 12, 761168.
Spiegelman, E. (2021) Embracing the dark side? Testing the socialization of a maximizing mindset. Economic Inquiry 59(2) pp. 740-761.
Pandey, A., Ashta, A., Spiegelman, E., & Sutan, A. (2020). Catch them young: Impact of financial socialization, financial literacy and attitude towards money on financial well‐being of young adults. International Journal of Consumer Studies. 44(6), pp. 531-541.
Alia, H. & Spiegelman, E. (2020) Convertible local currency and trust: ‘It’s Not You, It’s Me’ – A field experiment in the French Basque Country. Local Economy. 35(2) pp. 105-120.
Ajdukovic, I., Spiegelman, E. & Sutan, A. (2019) Égoïste maintenant, ou altruiste (pour) demain ? Stratégies inter vs. intra générationnelles pour la conservation d’une ressource commune. Revue Economique. 70(6), pp. 1153-1170
López-Pérez, R. & Spiegelman, E. (2019). Do economists lie more? in Dishonesty in Behavioral Economics, eds. Bucciol, A., and Montinari, N. Academic Press. pp. 143-162.
McCarthy, R.J. et al. (2018). Registered Replication Report on Srull and Wyer (1979), Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1(3), pp. 321-36.
Verschuere, B. et al. (2018). Registered Replication Report on Mazar, Amir, and Ariely (2008), Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1(3), pp. 299-317.
Ajdukovic, I., Max, S., Perchot, R., & Spiegelman, E. (2018). The Economic Psychology of Gabriel Tarde: Something new for behavioral economics? Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy, 2(1), pp. 5-11.
López-Pérez, R. & Spiegelman, E. (2013) Why do people tell the truth? Experimental evidence of pure lie aversion. Experimental Economics September 2013, 16(3), pp. 233-247.
Successful funding proposals
ANR project on Whistleblowing – WINAR, PI Rustam Romaniuc, Jan 2022 (36mo) 143,916 euros.
ANR project on the economics of competitive sports – SPORT, PI Marc Willinger, Dec 2023 (36mo) 308,809 euros.
ANR project on Augmented Reality and pro-environmental behavior – BE-AWARE, PI Martin Hachet, Dec 2022 (42mo) 565,823 euros.
ISITE coaching project – PI Uri Gneezy, Oct 2019 (36mo) 600,000 euros
Contract with Orange France on nudging and Wi-Fi use – Coordinator Andrea Guido
Conference presentations and invited seminars
2023: Tiber conference on economics and psychology, Tilburg, Netherlands; 2022: ASFEE, Lyon; ESA, Bologna; AFSE, Dijon; 2021: ASFEE, Dijon; 2020: SEET, Napoli; 2019: ESA World, Vancouver; SCSE, Québec; ASFEE, Toulouse; SEET, Ibiza; ESA Europe, Dijon; 2018: ESA World, Berlin; ASFEE, Nice; Tiber, Netherlands; IMEBESS, Florence; SEET, Italy; Alicante (invited); 2017: IMEBESS, Barcelona; ASFEE, Rennes; BDEEM, Dijon; ESA, Vienna; UAM (invited); 2015: GATE, Lyon, France (twice); UAM (invited); Université de Montpellier (invited); Université de Rennes; 2014: 16th FUR Conference, Rotterdam; AFSE, Lyon; ESA European meeting, Prague, Czech Republic; Tiber; Maastricht University (invited seminar); Do I like what I prefer? Symposium on attitudes and preferences, GSDS, Konstanz, Germany; 2013: 47th annual conference of the Canadian Economics Association (CEA), Montreal, Canada; 2012: SABE Granada Conference; 2011: Journées du CIRPEE, Bécancours, Quebec; Vanier College Social Science Festival (keynote); 2010: CEA, Quebec, Canada; 2009: SCSE, Laurentians, QC, Canada; “On Human Nature” second colloquium of the philosophy graduate students association of the University of Montreal; La journée étudiante CIRPÉE 2009, UQÀM; 2007: CIREQ Montreal Natural Resources and Environmental Economics Workshops; 2005: Canadian Society for Ecological Economics
Reviewing
Econometrica; Experimental Economics; Economic Inquiry; Games & Economic Behavior; J. Economic Behavior & Organization; J. Behavioral & Experimental Economics; Rev. Economics & Statstics; Rev. Economic Design
Professional affiliations
American Economic Association; Econometric Society; Canadian Economic Association; Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics; Economic Science Association; Association Française des Sciences Economiques; Association française de l’économie expérimentale