Stephan Meier

Research Fellow

Columbia University

sm3087@gsb.columbia.edu

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Research Interests

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. 18076

Early Release via Parole and Recidivism

Armando N. Meier, Jonathan Levav, Stephan Meier, Liora G. Avnaim

this paper presents an update of the former IZA Discussion Paper No. 13035, titled 'Early Release and Recidivism'

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13497

License to Fire? Unemployment Insurance and the Moral Cost of Layoffs

Daniel Keum, Stephan Meier

published as 'License to Layoff? Unemployment Insurance and the Moral Cost of Layoffs' in: Organization Science, 2023, 35 (3), 994-1014

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

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2024, 16 (3), 61–94

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