Univ.-Prof. Dr. Matthias Sutter

News

• 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 scientific advisory board of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and 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

• Alan, S., Corekcioglu, G., Sutter, M. (2022), Improving workplace climate in large corporations: A clustered randomized intervention. Quarterly Journal of Economics, qjac034. Press release by the EUI.
• Balafoutas, L., Batsaikhan, M., Sutter, M. (2022), Competitiveness of entrepreneurs and salaried workers. Management Science. (was MPI Discussion Paper 2021/7)
• Bortolotti, S., Soraperra, I., Sutter, M., Zoller, C. (2023), Too lucky to be true: Fairness views under the shadow of cheating. Review of Economics and Statistics. Link to older working paper version.
• Gill, A., Heinz, M., Schumacher, H., Sutter, M., Social Preferences of Young Professionals and the Financial Industry. Management Science. (A previous version was titled “Trustworthiness in the financial industry” and was MPI Discussion Paper 2020/19).
• Barron, K., Harmgart, H., Huck, S., Schneider, S. O., Sutter, M., Discrimination, narratives and family History: An experiment with Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children. Review of Economics and Statistics. (link to working paper version)
• Charness, G., Feri, F., Melendez-Jimenez, M., Sutter, M., An experimental study on the effects of communication, credibility, and clustering in network games. Review of Economics and Statistics, 1-45.

Working papers

• Bhargava, P., Chen, D. L., Sutter, M., Terrier, C. (2022). Homophily and Transmission of Behavioral Traits in Social Networks. IZA DP No. 15840.
• 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.
• Alysandratos, T., Georganas, S., & Sutter, M. (2022). Reputation vs Selection Effects in Markets with Informational Asymmetries. MPI Discussion Paper 2022/8.
• Grimalda, G., Murtin. F., Pipke, D., Putterman, L., Sutter, M. (2022), The politicized pandemic: Ideological polarization and the behavioral response to COVID-19. MPI Discussion Paper 2022/1. Revision requested by European Economic Review.
• 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.
• Bašić, Z., Bindra, P. C., Glätzle-Rützler, D., Romano, A., Sutter, M., Zoller, C. (2021), The roots of cooperation. MPI Discussion Paper 2021/14.
• Angerer, S., Bolvashenkova, J., Glätzle-Rützler, D., Lergetporer, P., Sutter, M. (2021), Children’s patience and school-track choices several years later: Linking experimental and field data. MPI Discussion Paper 2021/12. Revision requested by Journal of Public Economics.
• Charness, G., Cobo-Reyes, R., Eyster, E., Katz. G., Sánchez, Á., Sutter, M. (2021), Improving healthy eating in children: experimental evidence. MPI Discussion Paper 2021/1. Revision requested by European Economic Review.
• Kiessling, L., Chowdhury, S., Schildberg-Hörisch, H., Sutter, M. (2021), Parental paternalism and patience. IZA Discussion Paper 14030.
• Buffat, J., Praxmarer, M., Sutter, M. (2020), The intrinsic value of decision rights: A note on team vs individual decision-making. MPI Discussion Paper 2020/30. Revision requested by Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
• Balafoutas, L., Fornwagner, H., Kerschbamer, R., Sutter, M., Tverdostup, M. (2020), Diagnostic uncertainty and insurance coverage in credence goods markets. MPI Discussion Paper 2020/26.
• 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.
• Sutter, M., Weyland, M., Untertrifaller, A., Froitzheim, M. (2020), Financial literacy, risk and time preferences – Results from a randomized educational intervention. MPI Discussion Paper 2020/17. Revision requested by Journal of Political Economy.
• Stefan, M., Huber, J., Kirchler, M., Sutter, M., Walzl, M. (2020) Monetary and Social Incentives in Multi-Tasking: The Ranking Substitution Effect. MPI Discussion Paper 2020/10. Revision requested by European Economic Review.
• Kerschbamer, R., Neururer, D., Sutter, M. (2019), Credence goods markets and the informational value of new media: A natural field experiment. MPI Discussion Paper 2019/3. Revision requested by Journal of Public Economics.

Publications since 2019

• 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.