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, (2026), 100: 993–1018. 

• "Discounting and extraction behavior in continuous time resource experiments", with Marion Davin, Dimitri Dubois and Katrin Erdlenbruch, Resource and Energy Economics, 84, 2025, 101531.

• "Are risk-tolerant individuals more trustful? A representative sample study", Journal of the Economic Science Association, with Daniel Herrera Montoya, 2025;11(1):58-79. doi:10.1017/esa.2025.2.al of the Economic Science Association.

• "Hysteresis in addictive consumption depends on time preferences", with Sophie Massin, Phu Nguyen van and Bruno Ventelou, Theory and Decision, 100, 769–806 (2026). 

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

• "Delegating Moral Dilemmas in Autonomous Vehicles: Evidence from an online experiment in China", with Yuhong Gao and Thierry Blayac, Transport Policy,  2025, 171, 721-752.

• "Statute of Limitations for Tax Evasion", with Raluca Pavel, Bernur Acikgoz and Jean-Christophe Poudou, Kyklos, 78, 729-745, 2025. )