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 primary research interests lie in experimental and behavioral economics. He primarily conducts laboratory and field experiments to study risk-taking behavior and social preferences, particularly in the contexts of social dilemmas and asymmetric information. His recent research explores local adaptation to environmental risk and dynamic resource extraction games, with a particular focus on groundwater management. He is also investigating trading behavior in experimental asset markets—especially with regard to socially responsible investments—and the cognitive processes underlying depth of reasoning. 

Recent publications:

• 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 (forthcoming).

• The limits of behavioral nudges to increase youth turnout: Experimental evidence from two French elections , Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization ,  107098.

• 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 (Forthcoming).