Stephan Meier

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1.

Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially

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Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially

American Economic Review, Vol. 99, No. 1, pp. 544-555, 2009
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 31 Oct 2011
Dan Ariely, Anat Bracha and Stephan Meier
Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, The Hebrew University and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2968, FRB of Boston Working Paper No. 07-9
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 29 Aug 2007
Dan Ariely, Anat Bracha and Stephan Meier
Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, The Hebrew University and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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prosocial behavior, extrinsic incentives, image motivation, experiments

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A Survey of Economic Theories and Field Evidence on Pro-Social Behavior

FRB of Boston Working Paper No. 06-6
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 14 Jul 2006
Stephan Meier
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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The Economics of Museums

Institute for Empirical Economic Research Working Paper No. 149
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 18 Feb 2020
Bruno S. Frey and Stephan Meier
CREMA and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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Financial Literacy and Subprime Mortgage Delinquency: Evidence from a Survey Matched to Administrative Data

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Working Paper Series No. 2010-10
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 06 May 2010
Kristopher Gerardi, Lorenz Goette and Stephan Meier
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, University of Lausanne and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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subprime mortgage, delinquency, default, financial literacy, cognitive ability, survey

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Is Volunteering Rewarding in Itself?

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Is Volunteering Rewarding in Itself?

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 25 Mar 2004
Stephan Meier and Alois Stutzer
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and University of Basel
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happiness, pro-social behavior, subjective well-being, volunteering

Is Volunteering Rewarding in Itself?

Economica, Vol. 75, Issue 297, pp. 39-59, February 2008
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 29 Dec 2007
Stephan Meier and Alois Stutzer
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and University of Basel
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Museums between Private and Public the Case of the Beyeler Museum in Basle

Zurich IEER Working Paper No. 116
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 26 Feb 2020
Bruno S. Frey and Stephan Meier
CREMA and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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Museums, special exhibitions, state support, cultural economics

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The Impact of Group Membership on Cooperation and Norm Enforcement: Evidence Using Random Assignment to Real Social Groups

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2020, FRB of Boston Working Paper No. 06-7
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 21 Mar 2006
Lorenz Goette, David Huffman and Stephan Meier
University of Lausanne, IZA Institute of Labor Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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organizations, in-group favoritism, social identity, punishment

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Present-Biased Preferences and Credit Card Borrowing

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Present-Biased Preferences and Credit Card Borrowing

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4198
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 01 Jun 2009
Stephan Meier and Charles Sprenger
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
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time preferences, dynamic inconsistency, credit card borrowing, field experiment

Present-Biased Preferences and Credit Card Borrowing

American Economic Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 193-210, 2010
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 31 Oct 2011
Stephan Meier and Charles Sprenger
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
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Selection into Financial Literacy Programs: Evidence from a Field Study

FRB of Boston Public Policy Discussion Paper No. 07-5
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 16 Dec 2007
Stephan Meier and Charles Sprenger
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
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selection, credit scores, financial literacy, time preferences, field experiment

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Impatience and Credit Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment

FRB of Boston Working Paper No. 07-3
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 25 Apr 2007
Stephan Meier and Charles Sprenger
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
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time preferences, credit behavior, credit scores, delinquencies, field experiment

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Pro-Social Behavior, Reciprocity or Both?

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 13 Mar 2002
Bruno S. Frey and Stephan Meier
CREMA and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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Public Goods, Pro-social behavior, Reciprocity, Donation

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Matching Donations: Subsidizing Charitable Giving in a Field Experiment

Zurich IEER Working Paper No. 181
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 26 May 2004
Stephan Meier and Bruno S. Frey
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and CREMA
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Public Goods, Field Experiment, Matching Mechanism, Donations

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Deciding to Distrust

KSG Working Paper No. RWP05-049, FRB Boston Working Paper No. 05-4
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 09 Feb 2006
Iris Bohnet and Stephan Meier
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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Trust, reciprocity, framing, experiments, Economics - Microeconomics, Leadership/Conflict Management

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Two Concerns About Rational Choice: Indoctrination and Imperialism

Zurich IEER Working Paper No. 104
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 25 Feb 2002
Bruno S. Frey and Stephan Meier
CREMA and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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Rational Choice, Public Goods, Giving Behavior, Education, Behavioral Economics

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Discounting Financial Literacy: Time Preferences and Participation in Financial Education Programs

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3507
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 05 Jun 2008
Stephan Meier and Charles Sprenger
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
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financial literacy, time preferences, selection, field experiment

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Under-Savers Anonymous: Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device

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Under-Savers Anonymous: Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6311
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 12 Feb 2012
Felipe Kast, Stephan Meier and Dina Pomeranz
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
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savings, commitment device, peer pressure, field experiment

Under-Savers Anonymous: Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device

NBER Working Paper No. w18417
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 13 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2022
Felipe Kast, Stephan Meier and Dina Pomeranz
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
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Political Economists are Neither Selfish Nor Indoctrinated

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 22 Feb 2001
Bruno S. Frey and Stephan Meier
CREMA and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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Economists, Public Good, Giving Behaviour, Education, Selection

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Stability of Time Preferences

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4756
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 22 Feb 2010
Stephan Meier and Charles Sprenger
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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experimental economics, time preferences, preference stability

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Selfish and Indoctrinated Economists?

Zurich IEER Working Paper No. 103
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 05 Feb 2003
Bruno S. Frey and Stephan Meier
CREMA and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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Economists, Public Good, Giving Behaviour, Education, Selection

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Do People Behave in Experiments as in the Field? - Evidence from Donations

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Do People Behave in Experiments as in the Field? - Evidence from Donations

Institute for Empirical Research in Economics Working Paper No. 248
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 19 Jul 2005
Matthias Benz and Stephan Meier
University of Zurich - Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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Experiments, external validity, methodology, charitable giving

Do People Behave in Experiments as in the Field? Evidence from Donations

FRB of Boston Working Paper No. 06-8
Posted: 14 Jul 2006
Matthias Benz and Stephan Meier
University of Zurich - Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

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Experiments, external validity, methodology, charitable giving

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Did We Overestimate the Role of Social Preferences? The Case of Self-Selected Student Samples

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Did We Overestimate the Role of Social Preferences? The Case of Self-Selected Student Samples

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 3177
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 24 Sep 2010
Armin Falk, Stephan Meier and Christian Zehnder
University of Bonn - Economic Science Area, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and University of Lausanne
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methodology, selection, experiments, prosocial behavior

Did We Overestimate the Role of Social Preferences? The Case of Self-Selected Student Samples

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5475
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 07 Feb 2011
Armin Falk, Stephan Meier and Christian Zehnder
University of Bonn - Economic Science Area, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and University of Lausanne
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methodology, selection, experiments, prosocial behavior

Did We Overestimate the Role of Social Preferences? The Case of Self-Selected Student Samples

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP8019
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 14 Nov 2010
Armin Falk, Stephan Meier and Christian Zehnder
University of Bonn - Economic Science Area, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and University of Lausanne
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Another Hidden Cost of Incentives: The Detrimental Effect on Norm Enforcement

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Another Hidden Cost of Incentives: The Detrimental Effect on Norm Enforcement

FRB of Boston Working Paper No. 09-2
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 06 Mar 2009
Andreas Fuster and Stephan Meier
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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public goods, experimental economics, norm enforcement, hidden costs of incentives

Another Hidden Cost of Incentives: The Detrimental Effect on Norm Enforcement

Management Science, Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 57-70, 2010
Posted: 31 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 01 Nov 2011
Andreas Fuster and Stephan Meier
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

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public goods, prosocial behavior, norm enforcement, hidden cost of incentives, experimental economics

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Group Membership, Competition, and Altruistic Versus Antisocial Punishment: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Army Groups

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5189
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 27 Sep 2010
Lorenz Goette, David Huffman, Stephan Meier and Matthias Sutter
University of Lausanne, IZA Institute of Labor Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
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group membership, competition, punishment, army, experiment

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The Impact of Social Ties on Group Interactions: Evidence from Minimal Groups and Randomly Assigned Real Groups

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 2012, 4(1): 101–115, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 12/27
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 02 May 2012
Lorenz Goette, David Huffman and Stephan Meier
University of Lausanne, IZA Institute of Labor Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction

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Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1964, IEW Working Paper No. 269
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 08 Feb 2006
Simon Luechinger, Stephan Meier and Alois Stutzer
University of Lucerne, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and University of Basel
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public sector, rents, life satisfaction, corruption, judicial independence

Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction

Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, Vol. 24, Issue 2, pp. 476-488, 2008
Posted: 16 Sep 2008
Simon Luechinger, Stephan Meier and Alois Stutzer
University of Lucerne, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and University of Basel

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Nudging Credit Scores in the Field: The Effect of Text Reminders on Creditworthiness in the United States

FRB of Boston Working Paper No. 15-2
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 19 Oct 2015
Anat Bracha and Stephan Meier
The Hebrew University and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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field experiment, credit scores, creditworthiness, reminders, financial decisionmaking, low income

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Macroeconomic Conditions when Young Shape Job Preferences for Life

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Macroeconomic Conditions when Young Shape Job Preferences for Life

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13123
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 13 Apr 2020
Maria Cotofan, Lea Cassar, Robert Dur and Stephan Meier
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Erasmus School of Economics (ESE), University of Cologne, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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preferences for job attributes, experience, macroeconomic condition, generational dierence

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Do Business Students Make Good Citizens?

Zurich IEER Working Paper No. 148
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 06 Aug 2003
Stephan Meier and Bruno S. Frey
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and CREMA
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Field Experiments in Strategy Research

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8705
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 30 Dec 2014
Aaron Chatterji, Michael Findley, Nathan M. Jensen, Stephan Meier and Daniel L. Nielson
Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, Brigham Young University - Department of Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis - Department of Political Science, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and Brigham Young University
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field experiments, research methods, culture, liability of foreignness, foreign direct investment, strategy research, corporate culture

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Early Release and Recidivism

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13035
Number of pages: 100 Posted: 23 Mar 2020
Armando Meier, Jonathan Levav and Stephan Meier
University of Lausanne and University of Basel, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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parole, recidivism, early release, sentence length, judges

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Competition Between Organizational Groups: Its Impact on Altruistic and Anti-Social Motivations

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 03 Dec 2011
Lorenz Goette, David Huffman, Stephan Meier and Matthias Sutter
University of Lausanne, IZA Institute of Labor Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
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Group decisions, cooperation, punishment, experiment, Army

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Do Subsidies Increase Charitable Giving in the Long Run? Matching Donations in a Field Experiment

FRB of Boston Working Paper No. 06-18
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 06 Feb 2007
Stephan Meier
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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public goods, field experiment, matching mechanism, charitable giving

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Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and Private Sectors

FRB of Boston Public Policy Discussion Paper No. 08-1 SOEPPaper No. 106
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 02 Apr 2008
Simon Luechinger, Stephan Meier and Alois Stutzer
University of Lucerne, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and University of Basel
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unemployment, life satisfaction, job security, public sector

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Gender Differences in Preferences for Meaning at Work

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13053
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 30 Mar 2020
Vanessa Burbano, Nicolas Padilla and Stephan Meier
Columbia Business School, London Business School - Department of Marketing and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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job design, job preferences, gender segregation by occupation, mission, meaning at work

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Culture of Trust and Division of Labor

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8974
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 27 Apr 2015
Stephan Meier and Matthew Stephenson
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Management
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trust, division of labor, organizational structure

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Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and the Private Sector

IZA Working Paper No. 3385
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 23 May 2008
Simon Luechinger, Stephan Meier and Alois Stutzer
University of Lucerne, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and University of Basel
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unemployment, life satisfaction, job security, public sector

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Trust and In-Group Favoritism in a Culture of Crime

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8169
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 24 May 2014
Stephan Meier, Lamar Pierce and Antonino Vaccaro
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Washington University, Saint Louis - John M. Olin School of Business and University of Navarra - IESE Business School
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organized crime, trust, in-group favoritism, Mafia

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The Effect of Financial Constraints on In-Group Bias: Evidence from Rice Farmers in Thailand

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12919
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 28 Jan 2020
Suparee Boonmanunt and Stephan Meier
Mahidol University and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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cooperation, financial constraints, in-group bias, lab-in-the-field experiment, norm enforcement

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Incentives and Group Identity

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6815
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 06 Oct 2012
Paolo Masella, Stephan Meier and Philipp Zahn
University of Bologna - Department of Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and University of St. Gallen
Downloads 38 (583,666)
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crowding out, motivation, incentives, social preferences, social identity, trust, experiment

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Intentions for Doing Good Matter for Doing Well: The (Negative) Signaling Value of Prosocial Incentives

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Intentions for Doing Good Matter for Doing Well: The (Negative) Signaling Value of Prosocial Incentives

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11203
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 27 Dec 2017
Lea Cassar and Stephan Meier
University of Cologne and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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prosocial incentives, Corporate Social Responsibility, signaling

Intentions for Doing Good Matter for Doing Well: The (Negative) Signaling Value of Prosocial Incentives

NBER Working Paper No. w24109
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 16 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 18 May 2022
Lea Cassar and Stephan Meier
University of Cologne and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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Reviews - Besprechungen - Comptes Rendus

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 11 Jul 2003
Hansjörg Klausinger, Calvin Blackwell, Sergio Rossi, Stephan Meier, Bruno S. Frey, Laszlo Csaba, Gert-Jan Hospers, Nils Goldschmidt, Pieter Vanhuysse, Patra Chakshuvej, Debashis Acharya, Roland Eisen, Pravakar Sahoo, Magdalena Margreiter, Hendrik P. van Dalen, Albrecht Rothacher, Margit Schratzenstaller and Rajib Kumar Sahoo
WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, College of Charleston - School of Business, University of Fribourg - Faculty of Economics and Social Science, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, CREMA, Central European University - IRES Department, University of Twente, Walter Eucken Institut, University of Haifa, Independent, Panjab University - Department of Economics, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, University of Delhi - Institute of Economic Growth (IEG), University of Innsbruck - Department of Public Finance, Tilburg University, CentER, European Commission, Justus Liebig Universität Giessen and Canara Bank
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Another Hidden Cost of Incentives: The Detrimental Effect on Norm Enforcement

FRB of Boston Working Paper No. 09-2
Posted: 12 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 11 Jul 2021
Andreas Fuster and Stephan Meier
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

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