Scientific Articles (since 2008)

 Working Papers and work in progress

  • Madiès, T. (2026). La concurrence fiscale en matière d’impôt sur les sociétés dans l’Union européenne : Un état des lieux. Sciences Po OFCE Working Paper, No. 05/2026.
  • Imhof, D., Madiès, T., & Huber, M. (2026). Swimming in dark water: Bid rigging in Ticino. Unpublished manuscript, University of Fribourg.
  • Madiès, T., Tarola, O., & Taugourdeau, E. (2025). A simple model of tax competition and tax collection. Manuscript under review at The Annals of Regional Science.
  • Madiès, T., & Tisserand, J.-C. (2025). Can the unpacking effect mitigate GHG emissions? A laboratory experiment. Manuscript under review at Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics.
  • Furrer, O., Madiès, P., Madiès, T., & Tisserand, J.-C. (2022). Cooperation in turbulent environments: A public good game experimental exploration. Work in progress.

Recent Publications (selection)

  • Bjedov-Maillard, T., Lapointe, S., Madiès, T., & Masclet, D. (forthcoming). Are majorities always more cooperative than minorities? A multi-level public goods experiment in Switzerland. Games and Economic Behavior.
  • Baumgartner, S., Galeotti, F., Madiès, T., & Villeval, M.-C. (forthcoming). Trust as a social norm? A lab-in-the-field experiment with refugees in Switzerland. Theory and Decision.
  • Gilbert, G., Madiès, T., & Paty, S. (forthcoming). Asymmetric decentralization in France: A municipal-centered exception. The Annals of Regional Science.
  • Madiès, T., Tarola, O., & Taugourdeau, E. (2026). Do international environmental agreements affect tax and environmental competition between developed and developing countries? Journal of Public Economic Theory, 28(1), e70103. (CNRS 2)
  • Madiès, T., Tarola, O., & Taugourdeau, E. (2022). Tax haven, pollution haven or both? International Tax and Public Finance, 29, 527–560. (CNRS 2)
  • Madiès, T. (2021). La concurrence fiscale : Un point de vue d’économiste. Revue européenne et internationale de droit fiscal, 2, 295–300.
  • Madiès, T., & Rey, F. (2021). Addressing the concerns about carbon leakage in the implementation of carbon pricing policies: A focus on the issue of competitiveness. Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, 48, 53–75.
  • Taugourdeau, E., & Madiès, T. (2020). Vertical transfers and tax competition: Does trade integration matter? Social Choice and Welfare, 55, 453–475. (CNRS 1)
  • Exbrayat, N., Madiès, T., & Riou, S. (2019). A simple model of corporate bailouts in a globalized economy. The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 122(4), 1575–1605. (CNRS 2)
  • Bjedov, T., Lapointe, S., Madiès, T., & Villeval, M.-C. (2018). Does decentralization of decisions increase the stability of large groups? Social Choice and Welfare, 51(4), 681–716. (CNRS 1)
  • Madiès, T., Rota-Graziosi, G., Tranchant, J.-P., & Trépier, C. (2018). The economics of secession: A review of legal, theoretical and empirical aspects. Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 154(19), 1–18. (CNRS 4)
  • Bjedov, T., Madiès, T., & Villeval, M.-C. (2016). Communication and coordination in a two-stage game. Economic Inquiry, 54, 1519–1540. (CNRS 2)
  • Bjedov, T., Lapointe, S., & Madiès, T. (2014). The impact of within-party and between-party ideological dispersion on fiscal outcomes: Evidence from Swiss cantonal parliaments. Public Choice, 161(1–2), 209–232. (CNRS 1)
  • Madiès, T., Villeval, M.-C., & Wasmer, M. (2013). Intergenerational attitudes towards strategic uncertainty and competition: A field experiment in a Swiss bank. European Economic Review, 61, 153–168. (CNRS 1)
  • Dethier, J., & Madiès, T. (2012). Fiscal competition in developing countries: A survey of the theoretical and empirical literature. Journal of International Commerce, Economics and Policy, 3(2), 1–31. (Selected by the World Bank for the Research Digest of the World Bank, 4(4), Summer 2010.)
  • Dafflon, B., & Madiès, T. (2011). L’économie politique de la décentralisation dans quatre pays d’Afrique subsaharienne : Burkina Faso, Sénégal, Ghana et Kenya. Agence Française de Développement.
  • Breuillé, M.-L., Madiès, T., & Taugourdeau, E. (2010). Gross versus net equalization scheme in a federation with decentralized leadership. Journal of Urban Economics, 68(2), 205–214. (CNRS 1)
  • Exbrayat, N., Madiès, T., & Riou, S. (2010). International tax competition: Do public good spillovers matter? International Tax and Public Finance, 17, 479–500. (CNRS 2)
  • Foucault, M., Madiès, T., & Paty, S. (2008). Public spending interactions and local politics: Empirical evidence from French municipalities. Public Choice, 137, 57–80. (CNRS 1)
  • Madiès, T. (2008). Do vertical externalities lead to tax rates being too high? A note. The Annals of Regional Science, 42(1), 225–233. (CNRS 2)