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Stephan Meier is an Assistant Professor at Columbia Business School and a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Behavioral Economics and Decision-Making at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Zurich, was previously a senior economist at the Boston Fed and taught courses on strategic interactions and economic policy at Harvard University and the University of Zurich. His research interest is in behavioral strategy. He investigates the impact of psychology and economics on human decision-making and its implications for public policy and firms' strategy. Current research topics include how non-selfish behavior affect organizations or the effect of borrower’s decision-making on financial institutions’ strategy. His work has been published or is forthcoming in the leading academic journals including the American Economic Review and Management Science, and has been profiled by the press such as The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Neue Zuercher Zeitung.

• Fall 2009
  Strategy Formulation
  
• Spring 2009
  Strategy Formulation
  

Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially In American Economic Review (2009) Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Dan Ariely, Anat Bracha

Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction In Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization (2008) Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Simon Luchinger, Alois Stutzer

Do Subsidies Increase Charitable Giving in the Long Run? Matching Donations in a Field Experiment In Journal of the European Economic Association (2007) Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier

The Impact of Group Membership on Cooperation and Norm Enforcement: Evidence Using Random Assignment to Real Social Groups In American Economic Review (2006) Coauthor(s): Lorenz Goette, David Huffman, Stephan Meier

Social Comparison and Pro-social Behavior: Testing 'Conditional Cooperation' in a Field Experiment In American Economic Review (2004) Coauthor(s): Bruno S. Frey, Stephan Meier

Are Political Economists Selfish or Indoctrinated? In Economic Inquiry (2003) Coauthor(s): Bruno S. Frey, Stephan Meier

Discounting Financial Literacy: Time Preferences and Participation in Financial Education Programs In (2008) Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Charles Sprenger

Another Hidden Cost of Incentives: The Detrimental Effect on Norm Enforcement In Management Science (2009) Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Andreas Fuster

Present-Biased Preferences and Credit Card Borrowing In American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2009) Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Charles Sprenger

Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and the Private Sector In Journal of Human Resources (2009) Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Simon Luechinger, Alois Stutzer