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 Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and taught courses on strategic interactions and economic policy at Harvard University and the University of Zurich. His research interests are in behavioral economics. He applies insights from psychology and economics to questions in two areas: (1) prosocial behavior (e.g., how to foster cooperative behavior within or between organizations?), and (2) consumer finance (e.g., how do consumers make financial decisions?).
Teaching and research interest
Courses taught
- Fall 2009
Strategy Formulation
- Spring 2009
Strategy Formulation
Journal articles
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