Working Papers

Cooper, D., Dubard-Barbosa, S., Saral, K., Villeval, M.C. (2026). Entrepreneurship and Behavioral Characteristics (under review).

Gassmann, X.,  Malezieux, A., Villeval, M.C. (2026). More taxes, more revenue? Estimating the Laffer curve from 35 years of taxation experiments (under review).

Dickinson, D., Villeval, M.C. (2026). Belief Updating about Moral Norms: Does Group Identity Matter? (under review).

Guigon, V., Villeval, M.C., Dreher, J.C. (2026). Neurocomputational mechanisms of inferring others' preferences for information. (Under review).

Jiang, S., Villeval, M. C., Wei, Q. (2026). Financial Conditions and the Earning-Economizing Trade-off in Wealth Building.   (Under review).

Gangadharan, L., Krutaj, J., Villeval, M. C. (2025). Solving normative conflicts in collective action by promoting redistribution GATE WP, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5987914 (Under review).

Gangadharan, L., Maitra, P., Vecci, J., Veetil, P. C., Villeval, M. C. (2025). Do Advisors’ Status and Identity Shape Adherence to Advice?  (Under review)

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.  R&R at Experimental Economics.

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.

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   R&R at Games and Economic Behavior.

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).

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