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  1. The power of leadership in changing social norms in heterogeneous societies

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2026, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Marie Claire Villeval

  2. Corporate social responsibility as a signal in the labor market

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, January 2026, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  3. Artificial intelligence, distributional fairness, and pivotality

    Article • European Economic Review, September 2025, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  4. Metacognition biases information seeking in assessing ambiguous news

    Article • Communications Psychology, December 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Marie Claire Villeval

  5. Motivated information acquisition and social norm formation

    Article • European Economic Review, August 2024, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  6. Mindfulness training, cognitive performance and stress reduction

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, January 2024, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  7. TRUST AND SOCIAL PREFERENCES IN TIMES OF ACUTE HEALTH CRISIS

    Article • Annals of Economics and Statistics, January 2024, JSTOR

    Marie Claire Villeval

  8. Guilt aversion in (new) games: Does partners' payoff vulnerability matter?

    Article • Games and Economic Behavior, November 2023, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  9. Dishonesty as a collective‐risk social dilemma

    Article • Economic Inquiry, July 2023, Wiley

    Marie Claire Villeval

  10. The Way People Lie in Markets: Detectable vs. Deniable Lies

    Article • Management Science, June 2023, INFORMS

    Marie Claire Villeval

  11. The social construction of ignorance: Experimental evidence

    Article • Games and Economic Behavior, March 2023, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  12. Competition, information, and the erosion of morals

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, December 2022, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  13. Artificial intelligence, ethics, and intergenerational responsibility

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, November 2022, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  14. Teaching Norms: Direct Evidence of Parental Transmission

    Article • The Economic Journal, October 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Marie Claire Villeval

  15. Peer effects, self-selection and dishonesty

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, August 2022, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  16. Why Join a Team?

    Article • Management Science, November 2021, INFORMS

    Marie Claire Villeval

  17. Perceived social norm and behavior quickly adjusted to legal changes during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, October 2021, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  18. Fraud Deterrence Institutions Reduce Intrinsic Honesty

    Article • The Economic Journal, March 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Marie Claire Villeval

  19. Introduction

    Article • Economic and Political Studies, January 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Marie Claire Villeval

  20. Endogenous testosterone is associated with increased striatal response to audience effects during prosocial choices

    Article • Psychoneuroendocrinology, December 2020, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  21. Bubbles and incentives: an experiment on asset markets

    Article • Economic and Political Studies, November 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Marie Claire Villeval

  22. Unethical amnesia responds more to instrumental than to hedonic motives

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Marie Claire Villeval

  23. Feedback spillovers across tasks, self-confidence and competitiveness

    Article • Games and Economic Behavior, September 2020, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  24. Ambiguity and excuse-driven behavior in charitable giving

    Article • European Economic Review, May 2020, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  25. Do measures of risk attitude in the laboratory predict behavior under risk in and outside of the laboratory?

    Article • Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, April 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Marie Claire Villeval

  26. Always doing your best? Effort and performance in dynamic settings

    Article • Theory and Decision, March 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Marie Claire Villeval

  27. Can Shorter Transfer Chains and Transparency Reduce Embezzlement?

    Article • Review of Behavioral Economics, January 2020, Now Publishers

    Marie Claire Villeval

  28. Comportements (non) éthiques et stratégies morales

    Article • Revue économique, December 2019, CAIRN

    Marie Claire Villeval

  29. Doing Bad to Look Good: Negative Consequences of Image Concerns on Prosocial Behavior

    Article • Revue économique, December 2019, CAIRN

    Marie Claire Villeval

  30. Embezzlement and guilt aversion

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, November 2019, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  31. Motivated memory in dictator games

    Article • Games and Economic Behavior, September 2019, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  32. Introduction to the special issue in honor of Professor Charles R. Plott

    Article • Experimental Economics, August 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Marie Claire Villeval

  33. The effects of status mobility and group identity on trust

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, July 2019, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  34. Neurocomputational mechanisms at play when weighing concerns for extrinsic rewards, moral values, and social image

    Article • PLoS Biology, June 2019, PLOS

    Marie Claire Villeval

  35. Unethical behavior and group identity in contests

    Article • Journal of Economic Psychology, June 2019, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  36. Gender and peer effects on performance in social networks

    Article • European Economic Review, April 2019, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  37. Loss aversion and lying behavior

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, February 2019, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  38. Taxation, redistribution, and observability in social dilemmas

    Article • Journal of Public Economic Theory, January 2019, Wiley

    Marie Claire Villeval

  39. A method to estimate mean lying rates and their full distribution

    Article • Journal of the Economic Science Association, October 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Marie Claire Villeval

  40. What is the impact of the length of exclusion from a group on behavior after reintegration?

    Article • Economic Inquiry, September 2018, Wiley

    Marie Claire Villeval

  41. Does decentralization of decisions increase the stability of large groups?

    Article • Social Choice and Welfare, May 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Marie Claire Villeval

  42. The spillover effects of affirmative action on competitiveness and unethical behavior

    Article • European Economic Review, January 2018, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  43. Normative conflict and the limits of self-governance in heterogeneous populations

    Article • European Economic Review, November 2017, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  44. Mise en place d’une expérience avec le grand public : entre recherche, vulgarisation et pédagogie

    Article • Revue économique, August 2017, CAIRN

    Marie Claire Villeval

  45. Behavioural economics: Preserving rank as a social norm

    Article • Nature Human Behaviour, July 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Marie Claire Villeval

  46. Are group members less inequality averse than individual decision makers?

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, June 2017, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  47. Decision-environment effects on intertemporal financial choices: How relevant are resource-depletion models?

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, May 2017, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  48. Cheating in public transportations

    Article • Management Science, January 2017, INFORMS

    Marie Claire Villeval

  49. Saving face and group identity

    Article • Experimental Economics, November 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Marie Claire Villeval

  50. Migrations, risks, and uncertainty: A field experiment in China

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, November 2016, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  51. The efficiency of crackdowns: a lab-in-the-field experiment in public transportations

    Article • Theory and Decision, June 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Marie Claire Villeval

  52. Quitting and peer effects at work

    Article • Labour Economics, April 2016, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  53. Trust under the Prospect Theory and Quasi-Hyperbolic Preferences: A Field Experiment in Vietnam

    Article • Economic Development and Cultural Change, April 2016, University of Chicago Press

    Marie Claire Villeval

  54. Voluntary Contributions to a Mutual Insurance Pool

    Article • Journal of Public Economic Theory, March 2016, Wiley

    Marie Claire Villeval

  55. The role of communication in coordination between individuals with unequal payoffs

    Article • Economic Inquiry, March 2016, Wiley

    Marie Claire Villeval

  56. Can lab experiments help design personnel policies?

    Article • IZA World of Labor, January 2016, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

    Marie Claire Villeval

  57. Behavioral ethics: how psychology influenced economics and how economics might inform psychology?

    Article • Current Opinion in Psychology, December 2015, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  58. Social preferences and lying aversion in children

    Article • Experimental Economics, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Marie Claire Villeval

  59. Norm enforcement in social dilemmas: An experiment with police commissioners

    Article • Journal of Public Economics, June 2015, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  60. Dishonesty under scrutiny

    Article • Journal of the Economic Science Association, February 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Marie Claire Villeval

  61. Ambiguity on audits and cooperation in a public goods game

    Article • European Economic Review, February 2015, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  62. Professional identity can increase dishonesty

    Article • Nature, November 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Marie Claire Villeval

  63. Moral hypocrisy, power and social preferences

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, November 2014, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  64. Tax evasion and social information: an experiment in Belgium, France, and the Netherlands

    Article • International Tax and Public Finance, April 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Marie Claire Villeval

  65. Are Women More Attracted to Co-operation Than Men?

    Article • The Economic Journal, April 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Marie Claire Villeval

  66. Emotions, Sanctions, and Cooperation

    Article • Southern Economic Journal, April 2014, Wiley

    Marie Claire Villeval

  67. Ambiguous incentives and the persistence of effort: Experimental evidence

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, April 2014, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  68. Ingratiation: Experimental evidence

    Article • European Economic Review, February 2014, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  69. Tax evasion and emotions: An empirical test of re-integrative shaming theory

    Article • Journal of Economic Psychology, February 2014, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  70. The Dark Side of Competition for Status

    Article • Management Science, January 2014, INFORMS

    Marie Claire Villeval

  71. Intergenerational attitudes towards strategic uncertainty and competition: A field experiment in a Swiss bank

    Article • European Economic Review, July 2013, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  72. Lies and biased evaluation: A real-effort experiment

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, November 2012, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  73. Contribution aux biens publics et préférences sociales

    Article • Revue économique, May 2012, CAIRN

    Marie Claire Villeval

  74. THREAT AND PUNISHMENT IN PUBLIC GOOD EXPERIMENTS

    Article • Economic Inquiry, February 2012, Wiley

    Marie Claire Villeval

  75. Ready, Steady, Compete

    Article • Science, February 2012, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Marie Claire Villeval

  76. Respect and relational contracts

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, January 2012, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  77. Job Allocation Rules and Sorting Efficiency: Experimental Outcomes in a Peter Principle Environment

    Article • Southern Economic Journal, January 2012, Wiley

    Marie Claire Villeval

  78. Voluntary leadership: motivation and influence

    Article • Social Choice and Welfare, December 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Marie Claire Villeval

  79. Introduction to the Special Issue on Behavioral and Experimental Public Economics

    Article • Journal of Public Economic Theory, September 2011, Wiley

    Marie Claire Villeval

  80. Competition and the Ratchet Effect

    Article • Journal of Labor Economics, July 2011, University of Chicago Press

    Marie Claire Villeval

  81. GENDER MATCHING AND COMPETITIVENESS: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE

    Article • Economic Inquiry, April 2011, Wiley

    Marie Claire Villeval

  82. Hidden information, bargaining power, and efficiency: an experiment

    Article • Experimental Economics, November 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Marie Claire Villeval

  83. Incentive effects on risk attitude in small probability prospects

    Article • Economics Letters, November 2010, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  84. Efficiency and behavioral considerations in labor negotiations

    Article • Journal of Economic Psychology, August 2010, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  85. The ratio bias phenomenon: fact or artifact?

    Article • Theory and Decision, April 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Marie Claire Villeval

  86. Effort and Comparison Income: Experimental and Survey Evidence

    Article • ILR Review, April 2010, SAGE Publications

    Marie Claire Villeval

  87. Cheating, emotions, and rationality: an experiment on tax evasion

    Article • Experimental Economics, March 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Marie Claire Villeval

  88. Feedback and incentives: Experimental evidence

    Article • Labour Economics, December 2009, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  89. SELF‐SELECTION AND THE EFFICIENCY OF TOURNAMENTS

    Article • Economic Inquiry, July 2009, Wiley

    Marie Claire Villeval

  90. Cooperation and Competition in Intergenerational Experiments in the Field and the Laboratory

    Article • American Economic Review, May 2009, American Economic Association

    Marie Claire Villeval

  91. Existe-t-il une prime salariale à l’innovation?

    Article • L Actualité économique, February 2009, Consortium Erudit

    Marie Claire Villeval

  92. Performance-pay, sorting and social motivation

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, November 2008, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  93. Does monitoring decrease work effort?

    Article • Games and Economic Behavior, May 2008, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  94. Punishment, inequality, and welfare: a public good experiment

    Article • Social Choice and Welfare, January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Marie Claire Villeval

  95. Responsabilité individuelle et fiscalité

    Article • Économie & prévision, January 2008, PERSEE Program

    Marie Claire Villeval

  96. Tax evasion and social interactions

    Article • Journal of Public Economics, December 2007, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  97. Experimental Economics: Contributions, Recent Developments, and New Challenges

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2007, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  98. Effort, revenu et rang

    Article • Revue économique, January 2006, CAIRN

    Dr Andrew E. Clark, Marie Claire Villeval

  99. Nouvelles conditions de travail : satisfaction ou résignation ?

    Article • Revue économique, January 2005, CAIRN

    Marie Claire Villeval

  100. Redesigning Teams and Incentives in a Merger: An Experiment with Managers and Students

    Article • Management Science, October 2004, INFORMS

    Marie Claire Villeval

  101. L'économie des ressources humaines : pouvoir et limites des incitations

    Article • Économie & prévision, August 2004, CAIRN

    Marie Claire Villeval

  102. Learning from strikes

    Article • Labour Economics, April 2004, Elsevier

    Marie Claire Villeval

  103. Introduction Personnel economics: theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence

    Article • International Journal of Manpower, November 2003, Emerald

    Marie Claire Villeval

  104. Monetary and Nonmonetary Punishment in the Voluntary Contributions Mechanism

    Article • American Economic Review, February 2003, American Economic Association

    Marie Claire Villeval

  105. Article • Experimental Economics, January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Marie Claire Villeval

  106. Surenchères salariales et conflictualité : une approche expérimentale

    Article • Revue d économie politique, February 2002, CAIRN

    Marie Claire Villeval

  107. New organisational forms, learning and incentive‐based inequality

    Article • International Journal of Manpower, February 2001, Emerald

    Marie Claire Villeval

  108. Le biais technologique fondements, mesures et tests empiriques

    Article • Revue française d économie, January 1999, PERSEE Program

    Marie Claire Villeval