Working Papers

Gangadharan, L., Maitra, P., Vecci, J., Veetil, P. C., Villeval, M. C. (2025). Do Advisors’ Status and Identity Shape Adherence to Advice? http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5787344  (Under review).

Galeotti, F., Krutaj, J., Villeval, M.C. (2025). The power of leadership in changing social norms in heterogeneous societies. R&R at PNAS. 

Imai, T., Toussaert, S., Baillon, A., Dreber, A., Ertac, S., Johanesson, M., Neyse, L., Villeval, M.C. (2025). Pre-Registration and Pre-Analysis Plans in Experimental Economics. https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/cj36w_v1  (R&R at Experimental Economics).

Dadon, E., Villeval, M.C., Zultan, R. (2024). Corporate Social Responsibility as a Signal in the Labor Market. GATE-WP https://hal.science/hal-04726664  (R&R at the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization).

Le Bihan, M., Villeval, M.C. (2024). Do job seekers (really) procrastinate? GATE-WP https://hal.science/hal-04743505.  (R&R at Experimental Economics).

Comola, M., Rusinowska, A., Villeval, M.C. (2024). Competing for Influence in Networks Through Strategic Targeting. https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=4964652, GATE-WP (https://www.gate.cnrs.fr/RePEc/2024/2411.pdf), IZA DP (https://docs.iza.org/dp17315.pdf) (R&R at Games and Economic Behavior).

Suvorov, A., van de Ven, J.,  Villeval, M.C. (2024). Selective Information Sharing and Group Delusion https://ssrn.com/abstract=4827884 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4827884 (R&R at American Economic Journal: Microeconomics).

Butera, L., Grossman, P., Houser, D., List, J.A., Villeval, M.C. (2020). An Economic Approach to Alleviate the Crises of Confidence in Science: Uncertainty and Cooperation in the Public Goods Game. NBER Working Paper 26801; GATE Working Paper 2020-11. (R&R at the Economic Journal).

Baumgartner, S.S., Galeotti, F., Madiès, T.,  Villeval, M.C. (2025). Trust as a social norm? A lab-in-the-field experiment with refugees in Switzerland. SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=5189373. GATE WP 25-08, https://hal.science/hal-05001907  (under review).

Soldà, A., Villeval, M.C. (2025). Narratives as a Persuasion Tool in Performance Appraisals. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5162354  GATE WP 25-05 https://hal.science/hal-04964354   (under review).

Jiang, S., Villeval, M. C., Zhang, Z., Zheng, J. (2025). War and Peace: How Economic Prospects Drive Conflictuality, SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5156268. GATE WP 25-06, https://hal.science/hal-04967990   (under review).

Villeval, M.C. (2024). The social determinants of unethical behavior. Forthcoming in A. Bucciol and S. Quercia (Eds.) Research Handbook on Unethical Behavior. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4884754

Kingsuwankul, S., Tergiman, C., Villeval, M.C. (2023). Why do oaths work? Image concerns and credibility in promise keeping. GATE Working Paper. https://ssrn.com/abstract=4574459. (under review).

Kingsuwankul, S., Villeval, M.C. (2022). Do Individuals Take More Risk with Unethically Earned Money? 

Meidinger, C., Villeval, M.C. (2003). Leadership in Teams: Signaling or Reciprocating?, GATE WP 02-16 and MSE WP 2003, University of Paris I. https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00178474