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Stephan Meier
Senior Economist
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Stephan.Meier@bos.frb.org
 
Education | Work experience | Publications | Public service
Primary fields of research
behavioral economics
 

Education

Ph.D., Economics, University of Zurich, summa cum laude, 2005

M.A., History, Economics, and Political Science, University of Zurich, summa cum laude, 2000. Exchange semester at the University of Barcelona, Spain, January-June 1998.

Work experience

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Senior Economist, 2007-
Economist, 2005-2006
 
Harvard University
Adjunct Lecturer, Spring 2007
Research Fellow, 2005-2006
 
STICERD at the London School of Economics
Research Affiliate, October-December, 2004
 
 
University of Zurich, Economics Department
Research and Teaching Assistant, January 2001-June 2004
Undergraduate Research Assistant, July 1999-December 2000

Publications

Refereed journal articles

"Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and MOnetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially" with Dan Ariely and Anat Bracha American Economic Review, forthcoming (2008).

"Do People Behave in Experiments as in the Field?-- Evidece from Donations" Experimental Economics with Matthias Benz (Special edition on field experiments edited by J. List), forthcoming (2008)

"Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction" with Simon Lüchinger and Alois Stutzer, Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, forthcoming (2008).

“Is Volunteering Rewarding in Itself?” with Alois Stutzer. Economica 75(297): 39-59 (2008).

"Do Subsidies Increase Charitable Giving in the Long Run? Matching Donations in a Field Experiment" Journal of the European Economic Association, 5(6):1203-1222 (December 2007).

“The Impact of Group Membership on Cooperation and Norm Enforcement: Evidence Using Random Assignment to Real Social Groups” with Lorenz Goette and David Huffman, American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings 96(2): 212-216 (May 2006).

“Does Framing Matter for Conditional Cooperation? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment” Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy 5(1): Article 1 (2006).

“Pro-Social Behavior in a Natural Setting” with Bruno S. Frey. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 54: 65-88 (May 2004).

“Do Business Students Make Good Citizens?Evidence from a Natural Experiment ” with Bruno S. Frey. International Journal of the Economics of Business 11: 141-63 (2004).

“Social Comparison and Pro-Social Behavior: Testing Conditional Cooperation in a Field Experiment” with Bruno S. Frey. American Economic Review 94: 1717-1722 (December 2004).

“Are Political Economists Selfish or Indoctrinated?” with Bruno S. Frey. Economic Inquiry 41: 448-462. ( July 2003).

Other journal articles

“Do Women Behave More/Less Pro-socially Than Men? Evidence from Two Field Experiments.” Public Finance Review 35: 215-232 (2007).

“Selfish and Indoctrinated Economists” with Bruno S. Frey. European Journal of Law and Economics 19: 165-171 (2005).

Books and book chapters

“A Survey of Economic Theories and Field Evidence on Pro-Social Behavior” in: Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer, eds. Economics and Psychology: A Promising New Field. Cambridge: MIT Press. 2007: 51-88.

The Economics of Non-selfish Behaviour: Decisions to Contribute Money to Public Goods. Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd. 2006.

“Cultural Economics” with Bruno S. Frey. In Sharon J. Macdonald, ed., Blackwell Companion in Museum Studies. Blackwell Publishing. 2006: 398-414.

“The Economics of Museums” with Bruno S. Frey. In Ginsburgh and Throsby, eds., Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture. Amsterdam et al., Elsevier. 2006: 1017-1047.

“Why Does the ‘Migros’ Work? Corporate Governance in a Cooperative,” (in German). In Katja et al., Hg., Der Migros-Kosmos. Baden: hier + jetzt: 2003: 102-12.

Working papers and other unpublished papers

"Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Gap in Life Satisfaction Between the Private and Public Sectors" with Simon Luechinger and Alois Stutzer. FRB Boston Public Policy Discussion Paper Series, paper no. 08-1 (2008).

Selection into Financial Literacy Programs: Evidence from a Field Study” with Charles Sprenger. FRB Boston Public Policy Discussion Paper Series, paper no. 07-5 (2007).

Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially” with Dan Ariely and Anat Bracha. FRB Boston Working Papers Series, paper no. 07-9 (2007).

Impatience and Credit Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment” with Charles Sprenger. FRB Boston Working Papers Series, paper no. 07-3 (2007).

Do Subsidies Increase Charitable Giving in the Long Run? Matching Donations in a Field Experiment” FRB Boston Working Papers Series, paper no. 06-18 (2006).

Do People Behave in Experiments as in the Field? Evidence from Donations” with Matthias Benz. FRB Boston Working Papers Series, paper no. 06-8 (2006).

The Impact of Group Membership on Cooperation and Norm Enforcement: Evidence Using Random Assignment to Real Social Groups” with Lorenz Goette and David Huffman. FRB Boston Working Papers Series, paper no. 06-7 (2006).

A Survey of Economic Theories and Field Evidence on Pro-Social Behavior” FRB Boston Working Papers Series, paper no. 06-6 (2006).

Deciding to Distrust” with Iris Bohnet. FRB Boston Public Policy Discussion Paper Series, paper no. 05-4 (2005).

Book reviews

“The Psychology of Economic Decisions. Volume I: Rationality and Well-Being?” edited by Isabelle Brocas and Juan D. Carrillo. In Economica 71: 321-322.

“The Price of Virtue: The Economic Value of the Charitable Sector” by Vivien Foster et al. In Kyklos 55: 426-428 (2002).

“Private Faces in Public Places: The Case of a Private Art Museum in Europe” with Bruno S. Frey. Cultural Economics 3(3): 1-16 (2003).

Public service

Referee: American Economic Review, Berkeley Journals in Economic Analysis & Policy, Economic Inquiry, Economic Journal, Economics Letters, Information Economics and Policy, Int. Journal of the Economics of Business, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Education, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Socio-Economics, Kyklos, NSF, Public Choice, Social Science Quarterly.

 

 

 
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