2026 Martin G. Kocher: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	44	1832	1648	9	9	180	10750

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Martin G. Kocher is affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria and works primarily within the social sciences and decision sciences. Their research covers a broad range of topics related to behavioral economics, decision-making, and economic cooperation.

Their recent scholarly output includes studies published in multiple academic journals, addressing various themes in economics and behavior. Notable papers include:

"More opportunity, more cooperation? The behavioral effects of birthright citizenship on immigrant youth" (2021, Journal of Public Economics)
"The economic crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic has a negative effect on tax compliance: Results from a scenario study in Austria" (2022, Journal of Economic Psychology)
"Gender and cooperative preferences" (2020, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization)
"The team allocator game: Allocation power in public goods games" (2023, Games and Economic Behavior)
"Closing the Gender Stem Gap - a Large-Scale Randomized-Controlled Trial in Elementary Schools" (2022, SSRN Electronic Journal)

Martin G. Kocher frequently collaborates with other researchers, with many joint publications alongside:

Dominik Matzat
Alexandros Karakostas
Simeon Schudy
Christina Felfe
Helmut Rainer

Their work is regularly published in several academic venues, emphasizing behavioral economic studies and decision sciences. These publication venues include:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Open access LMU (Ludwid Maxmilian's Universitat Munchen)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Journal of Public Economics

Martin G. Kocher's primary fields of study are social sciences and decision sciences, with a focus on numerous subfields such as safety research, sociology and political science, general decision sciences, management science and operations research, and demography.

The main topics their research addresses include:

Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
Auction Theory and Applications
Taxation and Compliance Studies
School Choice and Performance

Best Publications

Impatience and Uncertainty: Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior

Matthias Sutter;Martin G. Kocher;Daniela Glätzle-Rützler;Stefan T. Trautmann

787
Citations
Choosing the Carrot or the Stick? Endogenous Institutional Choice in Social Dilemma Situations

Matthias Sutter;Stefan Haigner;Martin G. Kocher

667
Citations
Trust and trustworthiness across different age groups

Martin Kocher;Matthias Sutter

575
Citations
Trust and trustworthiness across different age groups

Matthias Sutter;Martin G. Kocher;Martin G. Kocher

559
Citations
More than thirty years of ultimatum bargaining experiments: Motives, variations, and a survey of the recent literature

Werner Güth;Martin G. Kocher

536
Citations
The Decision Maker Matters: Individual Versus Group Behaviour in Experimental Beauty‐Contest Games*

Martin G. Kocher;Matthias Sutter

470
Citations
Conditional cooperation on three continents

Martin G. Kocher;Todd Cherry;Stephan Kroll;Robert J. Netzer

461
Citations
Deception Through Telling the Truth?! Experimental Evidence From Individuals and Teams*

Matthias Sutter

449
Citations
Are groups more rational than individuals? A review of interactive decision making in groups

Tamar Kugler;Edgar E. Kausel;Martin G. Kocher;Martin G. Kocher

417
Citations
Favoritism of agents - The case of referees' home bias

Matthias Sutter;Martin Kocher

372
Citations
Time is money - Time pressure, incentives, and the quality of decision-making

Martin G. Kocher;Matthias Sutter

325
Citations
Bargaining under time pressure in an experimental ultimatum game

Matthias Sutter;Martin Kocher;Sabine Strauß

253
Citations
Trust between individuals and groups: Groups are less trusting than individuals but just as trustworthy

Tamar Kugler;Gary Bornstein;Martin Kocher;Matthias Sutter

241
Citations
Group polarization in the team dictator game reconsidered

Wolfgang J. Luhan;Martin G. Kocher;Martin G. Kocher;Matthias Sutter

222
Citations
Tempus Fugit: Time pressure in risky decisions

Martin G. Kocher;Julius Pahlke;Stefan T. Trautmann

205
Citations
I Lie? We Lie! Why? Experimental Evidence on a Dishonesty Shift in Groups

Martin G. Kocher;Simeon Schudy;Lisa Spantig

197
Citations
Cheating and Loss Aversion: Do People Cheat More to Avoid a Loss?

Gilles Grolleau;Martin G. Kocher;Angela Sutan

190
Citations
Measuring efficiency of German football teams by Data Envelopment Analysis

D. Haas;M. Kocher;Matthias Sutter

183
Citations
Gender pairing and bargaining—Beware the same sex!

Matthias Sutter;Matthias Sutter;Ronald Bosman;Martin G. Kocher;Martin G. Kocher;Frans van Winden

172
Citations
Measuring productivity of research in economics: A cross-country study using DEA

Martin G. Kocher;Mikulás Luptácik;Matthias Sutter

161
Citations
Individual versus group behavior and the role of the decision making procedure in gift-exchange experiments

Martin G. Kocher;Martin G. Kocher;Matthias Sutter;Matthias Sutter

159
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthias Sutter Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

Peter Martinsson University of Gothenburg

Werner Güth Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

Frans van Winden University of Amsterdam

Dieter Frey Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Louis Putterman Brown University

Todd L. Cherry University of Wyoming

Gary Bornstein Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Joachim Winter Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Alan G. Sanfey Radboud University

External Links

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