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2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
72
Citations
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World Ranking
426
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13

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Germany Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Germany Leader Award
  • 2018 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Matthias Sutter is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Germany. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a strong focus on experimental behavioral economics studies, decision-making and behavioral economics, and related subfields.

Their scholarly work covers several specialized areas including safety research, sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, general decision sciences, and management science and operations research.

Matthias Sutter's work has notably appeared in a variety of publication venues, with frequent contributions to the SSRN Electronic Journal, AEA Randomized Controlled Trials, European Economic Review, The Review of Economics and Statistics, and Management Science.

Key topics explored in their publications include:

  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
  • Game Theory and Applications
  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Auction Theory and Applications

They have collaborated extensively with several co-authors, including Shyamal Chowdhury, Sebastian O. Schneider, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Laura Breitkopf, and Şule Alan.

Representative recent papers by Matthias Sutter include:

  • "National parochialism is ubiquitous across 42 nations around the world," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Economic Preferences across Generations and Family Clusters: A Large-Scale Experiment in a Developing Country," 2022, Journal of Political Economy
  • "Improving Workplace Climate in Large Corporations: A Clustered Randomized Intervention," 2022, The Quarterly Journal of Economics
  • "Measuring the Indirect Effects of Adverse Employer Behaviour on Worker Productivity: a field Experiment," 2020, The Economic Journal
  • "Psychological pressure and the right to determine the moves in dynamic tournaments - evidence from a natural field experiment," 2021, Games and Economic Behavior

In recognition of their scholarly work, Matthias Sutter was named a Member of Academia Europaea in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Impatience and Uncertainty: Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior

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

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

    Matthias Sutter;Stefan Haigner;Martin G. Kocher

  • Trust and trustworthiness across different age groups

    Martin Kocher;Matthias Sutter

  • Trust and trustworthiness across different age groups

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

  • Leading by example with and without exclusion power in voluntary contribution experiments

    W. Güth;M. V. Levati;Matthias Sutter;E. van der Heijden

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

    Martin G. Kocher;Matthias Sutter

  • Groups Make Better Self-Interested Decisions

    Gary Charness;Matthias Sutter

  • Conditional cooperation on three continents

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

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

    Matthias Sutter

  • The Economics of Credence Goods: An Experiment on the Role of Liability, Verifiability, Reputation, and Competition

    Uwe Dulleck;Rudolf Kerschbamer;Matthias Sutter

  • Favoritism of agents - The case of referees' home bias

    Matthias Sutter;Martin Kocher

  • Affirmative Action Policies Promote Women and Do Not Harm Efficiency in the Laboratory

    Loukas Balafoutas;Matthias Sutter;Matthias Sutter

  • The development of egalitarianism, altruism, spite and parochialism in childhood and adolescence

    Ernst Fehr;Daniela Glätzle-Rützler;Matthias Sutter

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

    Martin G. Kocher;Matthias Sutter

  • What Drives Taxi Drivers? A Field Experiment on Fraud in a Market for Credence Goods

    Loukas Balafoutas;Adrian Beck;Rudolf Kerschbamer;Matthias Sutter

  • Leading by Example in a Public Goods Experiment with Heterogeneity and Incomplete Information

    Maria Vittoria Levati;M. Sutter;E. van der Heijden

  • Bargaining outside the lab – a newspaper experiment of a three-person ultimatum game

    Werner Güth;Carsten Schmidt;Matthias Sutter

  • Individual Behavior and Group Membership: Comment

    Matthias Sutter

  • Outcomes versus intentions: On the nature of fair behavior and its development with age

    Matthias Sutter

  • Bargaining under time pressure in an experimental ultimatum game

    Matthias Sutter;Martin Kocher;Sabine Strauß

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin G. Kocher
Martin G. Kocher University of Vienna
Michael Kirchler
Michael Kirchler University of Innsbruck
Werner Güth
Werner Güth Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
Daniel J. Benjamin
Daniel J. Benjamin University of California, Los Angeles
Peter Martinsson
Peter Martinsson University of Gothenburg
David Laibson
David Laibson Harvard University
Philipp D. Koellinger
Philipp D. Koellinger Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Gert G. Wagner
Gert G. Wagner German Institute for Economic Research
Lars Bertram
Lars Bertram University of Lübeck
James F. Wilson
James F. Wilson University of Edinburgh

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