Behavioral Economics Research at the Boston Fed
What happened to the Research Center for Behavioral Economics?
In substance, it’s still here. Anat Bracha and her research assistant, Lynn Conell-Price, remain valuable contributors to the research and policy advisory work of the research department. Only the formal entity and separate web presence of the Center are being discontinued.
Why is this change occurring?
When the Center was established, behavioral economics was a relatively new field, and the best way to incorporate it into the policy decisionmaking process was not obvious. Since that time, it has become clear that for policymaking to take greater advantage of the insights offered by the behavioral approach, a better integration of the behavioral economists into the parts of the research department responsible for policy deliberations would be necessary.
Papers from the Research Center for Behavioral Economics (2005-2012)
- Valuable Cheap Talk and Equilibrium Selection
Working Paper 12-3 by Julian C. Jamison - Games with Synergistic Preferences
Working Paper 11-15 by Julian C. Jamison - Managing Self-Confidence: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Working Paper 11-14 by Markus M. Möbius, Muriel Niederle, Paul Niehaus, and Tanya S. Rosenblat - Economic Literacy and Inflation Expectations: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment
Public Policy Discussion Paper No. 11-8 by Mary A. Burke and Michael Manz - Affective Decision Making: A Theory of Optimism Bias
Working Paper 10-16 by Anat Bracha and Donald J. Brown - Characterizing the Amount and Speed of Discounting Procedures
Working Paper 10-14 by Dean T. Jamison and Julian C. Jamison - Moral
Hazard, Peer Monitoring, and Microcredit: Field Experimental
Evidence from Paraguay
Working Paper 10-6 by Jeffrey Carpenter and Tyler Williams - Public and
Private Values
Working Paper 10-5 by Dan Ariely, Anat Bracha, and Jean-Paul L’Huillier - Policymaking
Insights from Behavioral Economics
Book based on Boston Fed's 2007 conference "Implications of Behavioral Economics for Economic Policy" - Seeds
to Succeed: Sequential Giving to Public Projects
Working Paper 09-21 by Anat Bracha, Michael Menietti, and Lise Vesterlund - Multiple Selves
in Intertemporal Choice
Working Paper 09-17 by Julian Jamison and Jon Wegener - Social and Private Learning with Endogenous Decision Timing
Working Paper 09-11 by Julian Jamison, David Owens, and Glenn Woroch - Another Hidden Cost of Incentives: The Detrimental Effect on Norm Enforcement
Working Paper 09-2 by Andreas Fuster and Stephan Meier - Blood Donations and Incentives:
Evidence from a Field Experiment
Working Paper 08-3 by Lorenz Goette and Alois Stutzer - Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and Private Sectors
Public Policy Discussion Paper P08-1 by Simon Luechinger, Stephan Meier, and Alois Stutzer - The Effects of Expectations on Perception: Experimental Design Issues and Further Evidence
Working Paper W07-14 by Tyler Williams - Active Decisions and Pro-Social Behavior
Working Paper W07-13 by Alois Stutzer, Lorenz Goette, and Michael Zehnder - Social Networks and Vaccination Decisions
Working Paper W07-12 by Neel Rao, Markus M. Möbius, and Tanya Rosenblat - Discounting Financial Literacy: Time Preferences and Participation in Financial Education
Programs
Public Policy Discussion Paper 07-5 by Stephan Meier and Charles Sprenger - How Much Is a Friend Worth? Directed Altruism and Enforced Reciprocity in Social Networks
Working Paper 07-11 by Stephen Leider, Markus M. Möbius, Tanya Rosenblat, and Quoc-Anh Do - Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially
Working Paper 07-9 by Dan Ariely, Anat Bracha, and Stephan Meier - Overborrowing and Undersaving: Lessons and Policy Implications from Research in Behavioral Economics
Community Affairs Discussion Paper by Marques Benton, Stephan Meier, and Charles Sprenger - Minimally Altruistic Wages and Unemployment in a Matching Model
Working Paper 07-5 by Julio J. Rotemberg - Impatience and Credit Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Working Paper 07-3 by Stephan Meier and Charles Sprenger - Do Subsidies Increase Charitable Giving in the Long Run? Matching Donations in a Field Experiment
Working Paper 06-18 by Stephan Meier - The Future of Life-Cycle Saving & Investing
Papers and presentations from the conference held on Oct. 25-27, 2006 - How Small is Zero Price? The True Value of Free Products
Working Paper 06-16 by Kristina Shampan’er and Dan Ariely - Minimally Acceptable Altruism and the Ultimatum Game
Working Paper 06-12 by Julio J. Rotemberg - Social Dynamics of Obesity
Public Policy Discussion Paper 06-5 by Mary Burke and Frank Heiland - Do People Behave in Experiments as in the Field? Evidence from Donations
Working Paper 06-8 by Matthias Benz and Stephan Meier - The Impact of Group Membership on Cooperation and Norm Enforcement: Evidence Using Random Assignment to Real Social Groups
Working Paper 06-7 by Lorenz Goette, David Huffman, and Stephan Meier - A Survey of Economic Theories and Field Evidence on Pro-Social Behavior
Working Paper 06-6 by Stephan Meier - Dishonesty in Everyday Life and its Policy Implications
Working Paper 06-3 by Nina Mazar and Dan Ariely - Large Stakes and Big Mistakes
Working Paper 05-11 by Dan Ariely, Uri Gneezy, George Loewenstein, and Nina Mazar - Tom Sawyer and the Construction of Value
Working Paper 05-10 by Dan Ariely, George Loewenstein, and Drazen Prelec - Deciding to Distrust
Public Policy Discussion Paper 05-4 by Iris Bohnet and Stephan Meier
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