Marc Willinger

Marc Willinger is a Professor of Economics at the University of Montpellier (UM) and a member of the Center for Environmental Economics of Montpellier (CEE-M). His research focuses on experimental and behavioral economics, combining laboratory and field experiments to study risk-taking and social preferences in contexts such as social dilemmas, background risk, and asymmetric information. His recent work examines local adaptation to environmental risk and dynamic resource extraction games, with an emphasis on groundwater management. He also investigates trading behavior in experimental asset markets—particularly regarding socially responsible investment—and the cognitive processes underlying strategic reasoning.

Recent publications:

• Equal Division Among the Few: An experiment about coalition formation and vNM stable set in a three-person game, with Yukihiko Funaki and Emmanuel Sol, Theory and Decision (forthcoming).

• Discounting and extraction behavior in continuous time resource experiments, Resource and Energy Economics ,  84, Dec. 2025, 101531.

• Hysteresis in addictive consumption depends on time preferences, Theory and Decision (online).

• Efficiency of the Minimum Approval Mechanism with heterogeneous players, Journal of Public Economic Theory , 2025, 27:e70043.

• "Delegating Moral Dilemmas in Autonomous Vehicles: Evidence from an online experiment in China ", Transport Policy,  2025 (online)

• "L'économie à l'ère de la science ouverte : un nouvel élan pour la reproductibilité", Revue Economique (forthcoming)

• "Statute of Limitations for Tax Evasion", Kyklos , 2025 (online)

• "Are risk-tolerant individuals more trustful? A representative sample study", Journal of the Economic Science Association (online).