Prof. Dr. Matthias Sutter

Recent News

• Matthias Sutter has been appointed 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 recently established Excellence Cluster “ECONtribute: Markets & Public Policy”, funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG).
• Matthias Sutter is the recipient of the 2018 Hans Kelsen Prize, which is awarded annually by the University of Cologne. As part of the university's excellence initiative, the prize is given to scientists who have displayed an outstanding research record over the past six years. (Video)

Recent Publications since 2016 and forthcoming papers

• Barron, K., Harmgart, H., Huck, S., Schneider, S. O., Sutter, M. (forthcoming), Discrimination, narratives and family History: An experiment with Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children. Review of Economics and Statistics.
• 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.
• Balafoutas, L., Fornwagner, H., Sutter, M. (2018), Closing the gender gap in competitiveness through priming, Nature Communications, 9, Article no. 4359.
• Sutter, M., Angerer, S., Glätzle-Rützler, D., Lergetporer, P. (2018), Language group differences in time preferences: Evidence from primary school children in a bilingual city, European Economic Review, 106: 21-34.
• Ahn, T. K., Balafoutas, L., Batsaikhan, M., Campos-Ortiz, F., Putterman, L., Sutter, M., Trust and Communication in a Property Rights Dilemma, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 149: 413-433.
• Sutter, M., Feri, F., Glätzle-Rützler, D., Kocher, M., Martinsson, P., Nordblom, K. (2018), Social preferences in childhood and adolescence. A large-scale experiment to estimate primary and secondary motivations. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 146: 16-30.
• Cooper, D. J., Sutter, M. (2018), Endogenous role assignment and team performance. International Economic Review, 59(3): 1547-1569.
• Huber, J., Kirchler, M., Kleinlercher, D., Sutter, M. (2017), Market vs. Residence Principle: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of a Financial Transaction Tax. Economic Journal , 127: F610–F631.
• Kerschbamer, R., Sutter, M., Dulleck, U. (2017), How social preferences shape incentives in (experimental) markets for credence goods. Economic Journal, 127: 393-416.
• Balafoutas, L., Kerschbamer, R., Sutter, M. (2017), Second degree moral hazard in a credence goods market. Economic Journal , 127 (599): 1-18.
• Kerschbamer, R., Sutter, M. (2017), The economics of credence goods – A survey of recent lab and field experiments. CESifo Economic Studies, 63(1): 1-23.
• Angerer, S., Dutcher, G., Glätzle-Rützler, D., Lergetporer, P., Sutter, M. (2017), Gender differences in discrimination emerge early in life: Evidence from primary school children in a bilingual city.Economics Letters 152: 15-18.
• Balafoutas, L., Sutter, M. (2017), On the nature of guilt aversion: Insights from a new methodology in the dictator game. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance 13(1): 9-15.
• Kerschbamer, R., Neururer, D., Sutter, M. (2016) Insurance coverage of customers induces dishonesty of sellers in markets for credence goods. Proceedings of National Academy of Science, 113, 7454-7458. (Interview mit Prof. Sutter zu dem Paper)
• Balafoutas, L., Brent, D., Sutter, M. (2016) Affirmative action or just discrimination? A study on the endogenous emergence of quotas.Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 127: 87-98.
• Czermak, S., Feri, F., Glätzle-Rützler, D., Sutter, M. (2016) How strategic are children and adolescents? Experimental evidence from normal-form games. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 128: 265-285.
• Angerer, S., Glätzle-Rützler, D., Lergetporer, P., Sutter, M. (2016) Cooperation and discrimination within and across language borders: Evidence from children in a bilingual city. European Economic Review, 90: 254-264.
• Ahn, T. K., Balafoutas, L., Batsaikhan, M., Campos-Ortiz, F., Sutter, M. (2016) Securing Property Rights: A Dilemma Experiment in Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Journal of Public Economics, 143: 115-124. 
• Kirchler, M., Huber, J., Stefan, M., Sutter, M. (2016), Market design and moral behavior. Management Science, 62(9): 2615-2625.
• Sutter, M., Glätzle-Rützler, Balafoutas, L., Czermak, S. (2016), Canceling out early age gender differences in competition - an analysis of policy interventions. Experimental Economics, 19(2): 412-432.

10 (older) selected 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.
• Lergetporer, P., Angerer, S., Glätzle-Rützler, D., Sutter, M. (2014), Third party punishment increases cooperation in children through (misaligned) expectations and conditional cooperation. PNAS – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111(19): 6916-6921.
• 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.

Working papers

• 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.
• Balafoutas, L., Batsaikhan, M., Sutter, M. (2021), Competitiveness of entrepreneurs and salaried workers, MPI Discussion Paper 2021/7.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Kassis, M, Schmidt, S. L., Schreyer, D., Sutter, M. (2020), Psychological pressure and the right to determine the moves in dynamic tournaments – Evidence from a natural field experiment, MPI Discussion Paper 2020/21.
• Gill, A., Heinz, M., Schumacher, H., Sutter, M., (2020), Trustworthiness in the financial industry, MPI Discussion Paper 2020/19.
• 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.
• Barron, K., Harmgart, H., Huck, S., Schneider, S., Sutter, M. (2020), Discrimination, narratives and family history: An experiment with Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children, MPI Discussion Paper 2020/13.
• Bindra, P.C., Kerschbamer, R., Neururer, D., Sutter, M. (2020), Reveal it or conceal it: On the value of second opinions in a low-entry-barriers credence goods market, MPI Discussion Paper 2020/1.
• 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.
• Balafoutas, L., Sutter, M. (2019), How uncertainty and ambiguity in tournaments affect gender differences in competitive behavior,MPI Discussion Paper 2019/9.
• Charness, G., Feri, F., Melendez-Jimenez, M., Sutter, M. (2019), An Experimental Study on the Effects of Communication, Credibility, and Clustering in Network Gamess,MPI Discussion Paper 2019/8.
• 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.
• Dertwinkel-Kalt, M., Köster, M., Sutter, M. (2019), To Buy or not to Buy? Shrouding and Partitioning of Prices in an Online Shopping Field Experiment, cesifo, working paper no. 7475/2019.
• Evaluating Intergenerational Persistence of Economic Preferences: A Large Scale Experiment with Families in Bangladesh (with Shyamal Chowdhury and Klaus F. Zimmermann). IZA Discussion Paper 11337.
• Measuring Indirect Effects of Unfair Employer Behavior on Worker Productivity – A Field Experiment (with Matthias Heinz, Sabrina Jeworrek, Vanessa Mertins and Heiner Schumacher). November 2017. MPI Discussion Paper 2017/22.
• How uncertainty and ambiguity in tournaments affect gender differences in competitive behavior (with Loukas Balafoutas, Brent J. Davis). MPI Discussion Paper 2017/18.
• Where to look for the morals in markets? (with Jürgen Huber, Michael Kirchler and Matthias Stefan). July 2016. IZA Discussion Paper 10105.