Univ.-Prof. Dr. Matthias Sutter

News

• Matthias Sutter has been elected as a member of the German National Science Association (Leopoldina).
• Wiley publishes the English edition of Matthias Sutter's latest book: „Behavioral Economics for Leaders: Research-Based Insights on the Weird, Irrational, and Wonderful Ways Humans Navigate the Workplace”
• Matthias Sutter publishes new book: “Der menschliche Faktor oder worauf es im Berufsleben ankommt“.
• Matthias Sutter has been appointed member of the Academia Europaea and is member of the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) in Vienna.
• Matthias Sutter is Principal Investigator (PI) in the Excellence Cluster “ECONtribute: Markets & Public Policy”, funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG).

Forthcoming publications

• Puente-Beccar, M., Sutter, M. & Tissen, J., Training youth for the labor market: Insights from an RCT in four African countries, Conditionally accepted via Pre-Results Review at the Journal of Development Economics.
• Alan, S., Corekcioglu, G., Kaba, M., Sutter, M. Female Leadership and Workplace Climate. Management Science.
• Alysandratos, T., Georganas, S., & Sutter, M. Disentangling Reputation from Selection Effects in Markets with Informational Asymmetries – A Field Experiment. Review of Economics and Statistics.
• Glätzle-Rützler, D., Sutter, M., Zoller, C. Coordination games played by children and teenagers on the influence of age group size and incentives. Experimental Economics.
• Dertwinkel-Kalt, M., Feldhaus, C., Ockenfels, A., Sutter, M., The Illusion of Moral Superiority: Evidence from the Energy Crisis, European Economic Review.

Working papers

• Chowdhury, S., Puente-Beccar, M., Schildberg-Hörisch, H., Schneider, S. O., & Sutter, M. (2025). Spatial patterns in the formation of economic preferences. MPI Discussion Paper 2025/10.
• Breitkopf, L., Chowdhury, S., Kamhöfer, D. A., Schildberg-Hörisch, H., & Sutter, M. (2025). The right timing matters: Sensitive periods in the formation of socio-emotional skills. MPI Discussion Paper 2025/9.
• Feldhaus, C., Reinhardt, L., Sutter, M. (2024). Trump ante portas: Political polarization undermines rule-following behavior. MPI Discussion Paper 2024/24.
• Bašić, Z., Bortolotti, S., Salicath, D., Schmidt, S., Schneider, S. O., Sutter, M. (2024). One size fits all? The interplay of incentives, effort provision, and personality. MPI Discussion Paper 2024/13.
• Breitkopf, L., Chowdhury, S., Priyam, S., Schildberg-Hörisch, H., & Sutter, M. (2024). Do economic preferences of children predict behavior? MPI Discussion Paper 2024/9.
• Bašić, Z., Bindra, P. C., Glätzle-Rützler, D., Romano, A., Sutter, M., Zoller, C. (2024), The roots of cooperation. MPI Discussion Paper 2024/2.
• Balafoutas, L, Fornwagner, H., Kerschbamer, H., Sutter, M., Tverdostup, M. (2023), Diagnostic uncertainty and insurance coverage in credence goods markets. MPI Discussion Paper 2023/12.
• Balafoutas, L, Fornwagner, H., Kerschbamer, H., Sutter, M., Tverdostup, M. (2023), Serving consumers in an uncertain world: A credence goods experiment. MPI Discussion Paper 2023/11.
• Sutter, M., Weyland, M., Untertrifaller, A., Froitzheim, M., Schneider, S. O. (2023), Financial literacy, experimental preference measures and field behavior: A randomized educational intervention. MPI Discussion Paper 2023/3. Revision requested by Journal of Political Economy.
• Bhargava, P., Chen, D. L., Sutter, M., Terrier, C. (2023). Homophily and transmission of behavioral traits in social networks. MPI Discussion Paper 2023/2.
• Chowdhury, S., Schildberg-Hörisch, H., Schneider S. O., & Sutter, M. (2022). Information provision over the phone saves lives: An RCT to contain COVID-19 in rural Bangladesh at the pandemic’s onset. MPI Discussion Paper 2022/9.
• Angerer, S., Dutcher, E. G., Glätzle-Rützler, D., Lergetporer, P., Sutter, M. (2021), The Formation of Risk Preferences Through Small-Scale Events. MPI Discussion Paper 2021/16.
• Kiessling, L., Chowdhury, S., Schildberg-Hörisch, H., Sutter, M. (2021), Parental paternalism and patience. IZA Discussion Paper 14030. Revision requested by Journal of Public Economics
• Schneider, S., Sutter, M. (2020), Higher order risk preferences: New experimental measures, determinants and field behavior. MPI Discussion Paper 2020/22. Revision requested by American Economic Review.

Publications since 2019

• Bortolotti, S., Soraperra, I., Sutter, M., Zoller, C. (2025), Too lucky to be true. Fairness views under the shadow of cheating. Review of Economics and Statistics, 107(3): 771-785.
• Bayer, C., Bierbrauer, F., Ockenfels, A., Sutter, M. (2025), ECONtribute: Markets & Public Policy: Agenda und ausgewählte Forschungsschwerpunkte. Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 26(1): 34-48.
• Dertwinkel-Kalt, M., Feldhaus, C., Ockenfels, A., & Sutter, M. (2024), Household reduction of gas consumption in the energy-crisis is not explained by individual economic incentives. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(48): e2411740121.
• Kaba, M., Koyuncu, M., Schneider S. O., Sutter, M. (2024), Social Norms, Political Polarization, and Vaccination Attitudes: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Turkey. European Economic Review, 168, 104818.
• Detlefsen, L., Friedl, A., Lima de Miranda, K., Schmidt, U., Sutter, M. (2024), Are economic preferences shaped by the family context? The impact of birth order and siblings’ sex composition on economic preferences. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 69, 1-31.
• Balafoutas, L., Batsaikhan, M., Sutter, M., Competitiveness of entrepreneurs and salaried workers. Management Science, 70(5):2900-2911.
• Praxmarer, M., Rockenbach, B., Sutter, M. (2024), Cooperation and norm enforcement differ strongly across adult generations. European Economic Review, 162, 104659.
• Alan, S., Corekcioglu, G., Sutter, M. (2023), Improving workplace climate in large corporations: A clustered randomized intervention. Quarterly Journal of Economics, qjac034, 138(1) 151–203. Press release by the EUI.
• Charness, G., Feri, F., Melendez-Jimenez, M., Sutter, M., (2023), An experimental study on the effects of communication, credibility, and clustering in network games. Review of Economics and Statistics, 105 (6): 1530–1543.
• Fang, X., Goette, L., Rockenbach, B., Sutter, M., Tiefenbeck, V., Schoeb, S., Staake, T. Complementarities in behavioral interventions: Evidence from a field experiment on resource conservations. Journal of Public Economics. (MPI Discussion Paper 2023/13)
• Charness, G., Cobo-Reyes, R., Eyster, E., Katz. G., Sánchez, Á., Sutter, M. (2023), Improving healthy eating in children: experimental evidence. European Economic Review, 159, 104562
• Barron, K., Harmgart, H., Huck, S., Schneider, S. O., Sutter, M. (2023), Discrimination, narratives and family History: An experiment with Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children. Review of Economics and Statistics, 105(4), 1008–1016.
• Gill, A., Heinz, M., Schumacher, H., Sutter, M., Social Preferences of Young Professionals and the Financial Industry. Management Science, 69(7), 3905-3919.
• Kerschbamer, R., Neururer, D., & Sutter, M. (2023), Credence goods markets, online information and repair prices: A natural field experiment, Journal of Public Economics, 222, 10489.
• Grimalda, G., Murtin. F., Pipke, D., Putterman, L., Sutter, M. (2023), The politicized pandemic: Ideological polarization and the behavioral response to COVID-19. European Economic Review, 156, 104472.
• Stefan, M., Huber, J., Kirchler, M., Sutter, M., Walzl, M. (2023), Monetary and Social Incentives in Multi-Tasking: The Ranking Substitution Effect. European Economic Review, 156, 104458.
• Buffat, J., Praxmarer, M., Sutter, M. (2023), The intrinsic value of decision rights: A note on team versus individual decision-making. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 209, 560-571.
• Angerer, S., Bolvashenkova, J., Glätzle-Rützler, D., Lergetporer, P., Sutter, M. (2023), Children’s patience and school-track choices several years later: Linking experimental and field data. Journal of Public Economics, 220, 104837.
• Chowdhury, S., Sutter, M., Zimmermann, K. F. (2022), Economic preferences across generations and family clusters: A large-scale experiment in a developing country, Journal of Political Economy, 130(9): 2361-2410.
• Sutter, M., Untertrifaller, A., Zoller, C. (2022), Grit increases strongly in early childhood and is related to parental background. Scientific Reports 12: 3561.
• Terrier, C., Chen, D., Sutter, M. (2021), COVID-19 within families amplifies the prosociality gap between adolescents of high and low socioeconomic status. PNAS – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(46): e2110891118.
• Angerer, S., Glätzle-Rützler, D., Lergetporer, P., & Sutter, M. (2021). The effects of language on patience: An experimental replication study of the linguistic-savings hypothesis in Austria. Journal of the Economic Science Association, 7, 88-97.
• Glätzle-Rützler, D., Lergetporer, P., Sutter, M. (2021), Collective intertemporal decisions and heterogeneity in groups. Games and Economic Behavior, 130, 131-147.
• Romano, A., Sutter, M., Liu, J. H., Yamagishi, T., & Balliet, D. (2021). National parochialism is ubiquitous across 42 nations around the world. Nature Communications, 12: 4456.
• Bindra, P. C., Kerschbamer, R., Neururer, D., Sutter, M. (2021), On the value of second opinions: a credence goods field experiment, Economics Letters, no. 109925.
• Romano, A., Bortolotti, S., Hofmann, W., Praxmarer, M. & Sutter, M. (2021), Generosity and Cooperation Across the Life Span: A Lab-in-the-Field Study, Psychology and Aging, 36(1), 108–118.
• Romano, A., Sutter, M., Liu, J. H. and Balliet, D., (2021) Political ideology, cooperation and national parochialism across 42 nations, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 376: 20200146.
• Kassis, M, Schmidt, S. L., Schreyer, D., Sutter, M. (2021), Psychological pressure and the right to determine the moves in dynamic tournaments – Evidence from a natural field experiment, Games and Economic Behavior, 126, 278-287.
• Heinz, M., Jeworrek, S., Mertins, V., Schumacher, H. & Sutter, M. (2020), Measuring the indirect effects of unfair employer behavior on worker productivity – A field experiment. Economic Journal, 130(632), 2546-2568.
• Dertwinkel-Kalt, Köster, M. and Sutter, M. (2020). To buy or not to buy? Price salience in an online shopping field experiment. European Economic Review, 130, no. 103593.
• Sutter, M., Kocher, M., & Praxmarer, M. (2020), Team Decision-Making. Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics . Springer, Cham, 1-25.
• Sutter, C., Rosenberger, W. & Sutter, M. (2020), Nudging with your child's education. A field experiment on collecting municipal dues when enforcement is scant.Economics Letters, 191, 109116.
• Sutter, M., Untertrifaller, A. (2020), Children's heterogeneity in cooperation and parental background: An experimental study, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 171, 286-296.
• Sutter, M., Huber, J., Kirchler, M., Stefan, M., Walzl, M., (2020), Where to look for the morals in markets?Experimental Economics, 23(1), 30-52.
• Balafoutas, L., Sutter, M. (2019), How uncertainty and ambiguity in tournaments affect gender differences in competitive behavior, European Economic Review, 118, 1-13.
• Fehr, D., Sutter, M. (2019), Gossip and the efficiency of interactions. Games and Economic Behavior, 113, 448-460.
• Linner, R. K., Biroli, P., …, Sutter, M., …, Beauchamp, J. (2019), Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences. Nature Genetics, published 14 January 2019.
• Sutter, M., Zoller, C., Glätzle-Rützler, D. (2019), Economic behavior of children and adolescents – A first survey of experimental economics results. European Economic Review, 111: 98-121.

10 other publications

• Charness, G., Feri, F., Melendez-Jimenez, M., Sutter, M. (2014), Experimental Games on Networks: Underpinnings of Behavior and Equilibrium Selection. Econometrica 82(5): 1615-1670.
• Balafoutas, L., Beck, A., Kerschbamer, R., Sutter, M. (2013), What drives taxi drivers? A field experiment on fraud in a market for credence goods. Review of Economic Studies 80(3): 876-891.
• Sutter, M., Kocher, M., Rützler, D., Trautmann, S. (2013), Impatience and uncertainty: Experimental decisions predict adolescents’ field behavior. American Economic Review 103(1): 510-531.
• Charness, G., Sutter, M. (2012), Groups make better self-interested decisions. Journal of Economic Perspectives 26(3): 157-176.
• Balafoutas, L., Sutter, M. (2012), Affirmative action policies promote women and do not harm efficiency in the lab. Science 335(6068): 579-582.
• Dulleck, U., Kerschbamer, R., Sutter, M. (2011), The economics of credence goods: On the role of liability, verifiability, reputation and competition. American Economic Review 101(2): 526-555.
• Sutter, M., Haigner, S., Kocher, M. (2010), Choosing the stick or the carrot? – Endogenous institutional choice in social dilemma situations. Review of Economic Studies 77(4): 1540-1566.
• Feri, F., Irlenbusch, B., Sutter, M. (2010), Efficiency gains from team-based coordination – Large-scale experimental evidence. American Economic Review 100(4): 1892-1912.
• Sutter, M. (2009), Individual behavior and group membership: Comment. American Economic Review 99(5): 2247-2257.
• Sutter, M., Kocher, M. (2007), Trust and trustworthiness across different age groups. Games and Economic Behavior 59(2): 364-382.