Stephan Meier

Research Fellow

Columbia University

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Stephan Meier is a Professor of Business at Columbia Business School. His research interests are in behavioral economics. 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 among other journals in American Economic Review, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Management Science, and, Psychological Science.

He holds a PhD from the University of Zurich and was previously a senior economist at the Center for Behavioral Economics and Decision-Making at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and a research fellow at Harvard University and the London School of Economics.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in April 2007.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13497
License to Fire? Unemployment Insurance and the Moral Cost of Layoffs
Daniel Keum, Stephan Meier
forthcoming in: Organization Science, 2023.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13123
Macroeconomic Conditions When Young Shape Job Preferences for Life
Maria Cotofan, Lea Cassar, Robert Dur, Stephan Meier
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105 (2), 467–473
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13053
Gender Differences in Preferences for Meaning at Work
Vanessa Burbano, Nicolas Padilla, Stephan Meier
The paper is conditionally accepted in “American Economic Journal: Economic Policy”.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13035
Early Release and Recidivism
Armando N. Meier, Jonathan Levav, Stephan Meier
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12919
The Effect of Financial Constraints on In-Group Bias: Evidence from Rice Farmers in Thailand
Suparee Boonmanunt, Stephan Meier
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023, 207, 96-109.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11203
Intentions for Doing Good Matter for Doing Well: The (Negative) Signaling Value of Prosocial Incentives
Lea Cassar, Stephan Meier
published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131(637), 1988-2017
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8974
Culture of Trust and Division of Labor
Stephan Meier, Matthew Stephenson
revised version published as 'Culture of Trust and Division of Labor in Non-Hierarchical Teams' in: Strategic Management Journal, 2019, 40 (8), 1171-1193 (with Patryk Perkowski)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8705
Field Experiments in Strategy Research
Aaron K. Chatterji, Michael Findley, Nathan M. Jensen, Stephan Meier, Daniel Nielson
published in: Strategic Management Journal, 2016, 37 (1), 116–132,
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8169
Trust and In-Group Favoritism in a Culture of Crime
Stephan Meier, Lamar Pierce, Antonino Vaccaro
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 132 (Part A), 78-92
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6815
Incentives and Group Identity
Paolo Masella, Stephan Meier, Philipp Zahn
published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2014, 86, 12-25
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6311
Under-Savers Anonymous: Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device
Felipe Kast, Stephan Meier, Dina Pomeranz
revised version published as 'Saving More in Groups: Field Experimental Evidence from Chile' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2018, 133, 275-294.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5475
Did We Overestimate the Role of Social Preferences? The Case of Self-Selected Student Samples
Armin Falk, Stephan Meier, Christian Zehnder
revised version published as 'Do Lab Experiments Misrepresent Social Preferences? The case of self-selected student samples' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (4), 839–852
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5189
Group Membership, Competition, and Altruistic versus Antisocial Punishment: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Army Groups
Lorenz Götte, David B. Huffman, Stephan Meier, Matthias Sutter
revised version published as 'Competition Between Organizational Groups: Its Impact on Altruistic and Anti-Social Motivations' in: Management Science, 2012, 58 (5), 948-960
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4756
Stability of Time Preferences
Stephan Meier, Charles Sprenger
revised version published as 'Temporal Stability of Time Preferences' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97(2), 273-286
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4198
Present-Biased Preferences and Credit Card Borrowing
Stephan Meier, Charles Sprenger
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2010, 2 (1), 193-210
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3507
Discounting Financial Literacy: Time Preferences and Participation in Financial Education Programs
Stephan Meier, Charles Sprenger
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2013, 95, 159–174
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3385
Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and the Private Sector
Simon Luechinger, Stephan Meier, Alois Stutzer
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2010, 45(4), 998-1045
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2968
Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially
Dan Ariely, Anat Bracha, Stephan Meier
published in: American Economic Review, 2009, 99 (1), 544–555
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2020
The Impact of Group Membership on Cooperation and Norm Enforcement: Evidence using Random Assignment to Real Social Groups
Lorenz Götte, David B. Huffman, Stephan Meier
published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (2), 212-216
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1964
Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction
Simon Luechinger, Stephan Meier, Alois Stutzer
published in: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2008, 24 (2), 476-488
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