Marie Claire Villeval

Marie Claire Villeval (2017)

Marie Claire Odile Villeval (born June 26, 1957 as Marie Claire Odile Sibille) is a French economist and university professor .

Career, research and teaching

Villeval studied economics at the University of Paris-Nanterre . After graduating there in 1979 with a Master of Science degree , she completed her Ph.D. -Study at. After successfully completing her degree in 1983, she moved to the University of Nancy as a Research Associate , and in 1991 she moved on to the University of Lyon . After completing her habilitation there in May 1998 , she was appointed professor at the university in 2012 .

Between 1993 and 2011, and again since 2017 Villeval belongs to the Executive Committee of the European Association of Labor Economists on. Between 2002 and 2012 she was a member of the Executive Committee of the Association Française de Science Economique , of which she was President for a year from 2010. She has also been a Research Fellow at the Bonn Research Institute on the Future of Work since 2012 . She sits on the steering committee of the “CORTEX Laboratory of Excellence” at the University of Lyon, where interdisciplinary brain research is carried out. Between 2014 and 2016 she was co-editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization , and since 2017 she has been co-editor of the periodical Experimental Economics .

Villeval's work and research focuses on the tension between labor economics , behavioral economics , experimental economics , human resource economics and neuro-economics . In doing so, she deals in particular with the motivation of economic activity as well as fraud and self-deception. Her focus in brain research at the "CORTEX Laboratory of Excellence" is particularly on decision-making in the direction of the labor market, but also on economic activity by the public sector and on capital markets .

In 2012 Villeval was awarded the Ordre national du Mérite with the rank of knight, in 2017 she was accepted as a knight in the Legion of Honor .

personal data
SURNAME	Villeval, Marie Claire
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Villeval, Marie Claire Odile (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	June 26, 1957