Work Experience
- Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
- Senior Economist, 2006-
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- Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, University of Zurich
- Assistant Professor, 2003-2006
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- Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn
- Research Fellow, 2004-
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- Centre for Economic Policy Research, London
- Research Affiliate, 2005-
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- University of California, Berkeley
- Research Fellow, 2001-2003
Publications
Refereed journal articles
"Wage Rigidity: Measurement, Causes, and Consequences," with Uwe Sunde and Thomas Bauer. Economic Journal 117(524):F508-F529 (November 2007).
"Real and Nominal Wage Rigidities and the Rate of Inflation: Evidence from West German Micro Data, with Thomas Bauer and Holger Bonin. Economic Journal 117(524):F508-F529 (November 2007).
"Affect and the Motivational Foundations of Social Capital," with David Huffman. Review of General Psychology 11(2): 142-154 (June 2007).
“Do Workers Work More When Wages Are High? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment” with Ernst Fehr. American Economic Review 97(1):298-317 (March 2007).
“How Wages Change: Micro Evidence from the International Wage Flexibility Project” with Bill Dickens, Erica Groshen, Steinar Holden, Julian Messina, Mark Schweitzer, Jarkko Turunen, and Melanie Ward-Warmedinger. Journal of Economic Perspectives 21(2):195-214 (Spring 2007) .
“The Impact of Group Membership on Cooperation and Norm Enforcement: Evidence from Random Assignment to Real Social Groups” with David Huffman and Stephan Meier. American Economic Review 96(2): 212-216 (May 2006).
"The Robustness and Real Consequences of Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity" with Ernst Fehr. Journal of Monetary Economics 52(4) : 779-804 ( May 2005). download
"Loss Aversion and Labor Supply" with David Huffman and Ernst Fehr Journal of the European Economic Association 2(2): 216-228 (2004).
"Trust me: An empirical analysis of taxpayer honesty" with Marcel Kuchner Finanzarchiv 55(3): S. 429-444 (1998).
"Does the popular vote undermine civil rights?" with Bruno S. Frey. comment. American Journal of Political Science 42(4): S. 1343-1348 (October 1998).
Books and book chapters
"Do Emotions Lead to Better Labor Market Outcomes?" with David Huffman. In Roy Baumeister and George Loewenstein, eds., Do Emotions Lead to Better or Worse Decisions? New York: Russell Sage (forthcoming).
"Affect, Incentives and Motivation: Evidence from Natural Experiments with Bicycle Messengers" with David Huffman. In Roy Baumeister and George Loewenstein, eds., Do Emotions Lead to Better or Worse Decisions? New York: Russell Sage (forthcoming).
Working papers
and other unpublished papers
"Blood Donations and Incentives: Evidence from a Field Experiment,"
with Alois Stutzer, FRB Boston Working Papers Series, paper no. 08-3 (2008).
"Subprime Facts: What (We Think) We Know about the Subprime Crises and What We Don't," with Christopher Foote, Kristopher Gerardi and Paul S. Willen. FRB Boston Public Policy Discussion Papers Series, paper no. 08-2 (2008).
"Active Decisions and Pro-Social Behavior," with Alois Stutzer and Michael Zehnder, FRB Boston Working Papers Series, paper no. 07-13 (2007).
“The Impact of Group Membership on Cooperation and Norm Enforcement: Evidence Using Random Assignment to Real Social Groups” with David Huffman and Stephan Meier, FRB Boston Working Papers Series, paper no. 06-7 (2006).
Public Service
Referee: Econometrica; Journal of Monetary Economics; Journal of Population Economics; Journal of Economic Behavior and Organisation; Economic Journal; Finanzarchiv; Public Choice; Kyklos; Scandinavian Journal of Economics; Labour Economics; European Economic Review; Review of Economics and Statistics; Games and Economic Behavior.
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