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Montpellier Laboratory for Theoretical and Applied Economics (LAMETA)

Director: Jean-Michel Salles
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Research area
Theoretical and Applied Economics research unit focuses mainly on public economics, environmental economics, natural resources (water and biodiversity) and modelling of sustainable development. The main research tools are modelling, experimental methods and econometrics. Most experimental research is devoted to testing alternative policy instruments designed for managing individual and collective action.
Research highlights

Experimental & Behavioral Economics / Biodiversity / Water Resource Management / Sustainable Development / Applied Econometrics / Public Choice
Staff profile
Research Org. Researchers Professors

Research Eng.

 Techn&Admin StaffPhD
UM1, Mtp SupAgro, CNRS, INRA
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 12 27
Research teams
  • Experimental and behavioral economics
  • Economic policy and public choice
  • Applied econometrics
  • Economic analysis of biodiversity
  • Quantitative and qualitative management of water resources
  • Analysis and modeling of sustainable development
Platforms and other tools
  • A dedicated experimental lab equipped with a network of 20 computers in cubicles.
  • A mobile experimental lab dedicated to economic field experiments.
Most important international partnerships
  • BioECon (European research network on biodiversity economics)
  • Waseda University (Japan)
  • University of Tilburg (Netherlands)
  • University of Miskolc (Hungary)
  • CORE (Belgium)
  • University of Sydney (Australia)
Facts and figures
Publications in international ranking journals

2010: env. 20

2005 - 2009: 64
Representative publications
Barnett J.M., El Harbi S., Grolleau G. (2010). "The fashion lottery: cooperative innovation in stochastic markets". Journal of Legal Studies 39 (1), January 2010, 159-199.

Martimort D., Poudou J-C., Sand-Zantman W. (2010). "Contracting for an innovation with bilateral asymmetric information". Journal of Industrial Economics 58 (2), June 2010, 324-348.

Poudou J-C., Thomas L. (2010). "On optimal regulation of price and R&D with asymmetric information" Review of Economic Design 14 (3-4), September, 251-269.

Rouvière E., Soubeyran R., Bignebat C. (forthcoming). "Heterogeneous efforts on food safety: Theory and evidence from a voluntary programme of french importers of fresh produce". European Review of Agricultural Economics.

Westerberg V.H., Lifran R., Olsen S.B. (forthcoming). To restore or not? A valuation of social and ecological functions of the Marais des Baux wetland in Southern France. Ecological Economics.

Bougherara D., Grolleau G., Mzoughi N. (2009). "Buy local, pollute less: what drives households to join a community supported farm?". Ecological Economics 68 (5), March 2009, 79-99.

Figuières C. (2009). "Markov interactions in a class of dynamic games". Theory and Decision 66 (1), January 2009, 39-68.

Gallai N., Salles J-M., Settele J., Vaissière B.E. (2009). "Economic valuation of the vulnerability of world agriculture confronted with pollinator decline". Ecological Economics 68 (3), January 2009, 810-821.

Grolleau G., Ibanez L., Mzoughi N. (2009). "Too much of a good thing? Why altruism can harm the environment?". Ecological Economics 68 (7), May 2009, 2145-2149.

Prieur F. (2009). "The Environmental Kuznets Curve in a world of irreversibility". Economic Theory 40 (1), July 2009, 57-90.

Sutan A., Willinger M. (2009). "Guessing with negative feedback : an experiment". Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 33 (5), May 2009, 1123-1133.

Thoron S., Sol E., Willinger M. (2009). "Do binding agreements solve the social dilemma?", Journal of Public Economics 93 (11-12) , 2009, 1271-1282.

Chakravorty U., Moreaux M., Tidball M. (2008). "Ordering the extraction of polluting nonrenewable resources". American Economic Review 98 (3), June 2008, 1128-44.

Erdlenbruch K., Tidball M., van Soest D. (2008). "Renewable resource management, users heterogeneity, and the scope for cooperation". Ecological Economics 64 (3), January 208, 597-602.

Figuières C., Bracht J., Ratto M. (2008). "Relative performance of two simple incentive mechanisms in a public goods experiment". Journal of Public Economics 92 (1-2), 54-90.

Grolleau G., Ibanez L. (2008). "Can ecolabeling schemes preserve the environment?". Environmental and Resource Economics 40 (2), June 2008, 233-249.

Makdissi P., Mussard S. (2008). "Analyzing the impact of indirect tax reforms on rank dependant social welfare functions: A positional dominance approach". Social Choice and Welfare 30 (3), 385-399.

Grolleau G., Mzoughi N., Thomas A. (2007). "What drives agrifood firms to register for an Environmental Management System". European Review of Agricultural Economics 34 (2), 233-255.

Keser C., Willinger M. (2007). "Theories of behavior in principal-agent relationships with hidden action". European Economic Review 51 (6), August 2007, 1514-1533.

Simon L., Goodhue R., Rausser G., Thoyer S., Morardet S., Rio P. (2007). "Structure and power in multilateral negotiations: An application to French water policy". Giannini Foundation Monograph No. 47, Division of Agricultural and Natural Resources, University of California, 2007, 46 p.

Hailu, A., Thoyer, S. (2006) Multi-unit auction format design. Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination 1 (2), 129-146.

Jean-Marie A., Tidball M. (2006). "Adapting behaviors through a learning process". Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 60 (3), 399-422.
Total annual budget
2006 2007
Total annual budget (excluding salaries) 113 600 148 900
External contracts 
ANR 7 900
EU
Private sector
Others 106 400 5 800