Matthias Sutter


Professor of Experimental Economics and Head of Department
Department of Public Finance
University of Innsbruck
Universitaetsstrasse 15
A-6020 Innsbruck
matthias.sutter "AT" uibk.ac.at

Professor of Economics (part-time)
Department of Economics
University of Gothenburg

Associate Editor of the journal Management Science
Editorial Board Member of the journal Experimental Economics

Forthcoming papers
Published papers
Working papers 2011 and earlier
Refereeing and editorial positions
Media coverage (selected)
Curriculum vitae - CV (pdf)

 Matthias Sutter


  • NEW publication in SCIENCE Affirmative action policies promote women and do not harm efficiency in the lab. Science 335(6068): 579-582 (3 February 2012) (with Loukas Balafoutas). (link to Science-website).

    Working papers in 2012
    Forthcoming papers
    • Psychological pressure in competitive environments: New evidence from randomized natural experiments. Management Science (with M. Kocher and M. Lenz). (accepted version).
    • Competition between organizational groups: Its impact on altruistic and anti-social motivations. Management Science (with L. Goette, D. Huffman and S. Meier). (latest working paper version). A previous version was titled 'Group membership, competition, and altruistic versus antisocial punishment: Evidence from randomly assigned army groups'.
    • Bubbles and information: An experiment. Management Science (with J. Huber and M. Kirchler). (latest working paper version).
    • Group decision making under risk: An experiment with student couples. Economics Letters (with H. He and P. Martinsson). (working paper version).
    • Distributional preferences and competitive behavior. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (with L. Balafoutas and R. Kerschbamer). (working paper version).
    Published papers
    • The economics of credence goods: On the role of liability, verifiability, reputation and competition. American Economic Review 101 (2011): 526-555. (with U. Dulleck and R. Kerschbamer). (abstract on AER-website).
    • What is for me is not for you: Brain correlates of intertemporal choice for self and other. SCAN - Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 6 (2011): 218-225. (with K. Albrecht, D. Laibson, K. Volz and Y. von Cramon). (abstract on SCAN-website).
    • The benefits of voluntary leadership in experimental public goods games. Economics Letters 112 (2011): 176-178. (with M. F. Rivas). (abstract on EL-website).
    • Social preferences during childhood and the role of gender and age - An experiment in Austria and Sweden. Economics Letters 110 (2011): 248-251. (with P. Martinsson, K. Nordblom and D. Rützler). (abstract on EL-website).
    • Efficiency gains from team-based coordination - Large scale experimental evidence. American Economic Review 100 (2010): 1892-1912. (with F. Feri and B. Irlenbusch). (abstract on AER-website).
    • Choosing the stick or the carrot? – Endogenous institutional choice in social dilemma situations. Review of Economic Studies 77 (2010): 1540-1566. (with S. Haigner and M. Kocher). (abstract on REStud-website).
    • The economic consequences of a Tobin tax - An experimental analysis. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 74 (2010): 58-71. (with M. Hanke, J. Huber and M. Kirchler). (abstract on JEBO-website).
    • Introduction to special issue: The economics and psychology of football. Journal of Economic Psychology 31 (2010): 155-157. (with M. Kocher). (abstract on JOEP-website).
    • Individual behavior and group membership: Comment. American Economic Review 99 (2009): 2247-2257. (abstract on AER-website).
    • The excess burden of tax evasion - An experimental detection-concealment contest. European Economic Review 53 (2009): 527-543. (with R. Bayer). (abstract on EER-website).
    • Communication, cooperation and collusion in team tournaments - An experimental study. Games and Economic Behavior 66 (2009): 506-525. (with C. Strassmair). (abstract on GEB-website).
    • Gender pairing and bargaining - Beware the same sex!. Experimental Economics 12 (2009): 318-331. (with R. Bosman, M. Kocher and F. van Winden). (abstract on EE-website).
    • Causes, consequences, and cures of myopic loss aversion - An experimental investigation. Economic Journal 119 (2009): 900-916. (with G. Fellner) (abstract on EJ-website).
    • Individuals and teams in auctions. Oxford Economic Papers 61 (2009): 380-394. (with M. Kocher and S. Strauss) (abstract on OEP-website).
    • Group polarization in the team dictator game reconsidered. Experimental Economics 12 (2009): 26-41. (with M. Kocher and W. Luhan) (abstract on EE-website).
    • Deception through telling the truth?! Experimental evidence from individuals and teams. Economic Journal 119 (2009): 47-60. (abstract on EJ-website).
    • Searching for a better deal – On the influence of group decision making, time pressure and gender in a search experiment . Journal of Economic Psychology 30: 1-10. (with S. Czermak and M. Ibanez). (abstract on JOEP-website).
    • Conditional cooperation on three continents. Economics Letters 101 (2008): 175-178. (with M. Kocher, T. Cherry, S. Kroll and R. Netzer) (abstract on EL-website).
    • Trading agricultural payment entitlements: An experimental investigation of bilateral negotiations. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 90 (2008): 1201-1207. (with E. Bahrs and S. Kroll). (abstract at AJAE-website).
    • Trust in cooperation or ability? An experimental study on gender differences. Economics Letters 99 (2008): 494-497. (with C. Schwieren) (abstract on EL-website).
    • Is more information always better? Experimental financial markets with cumulative information. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 65 (2008): 86-104. (with J. Huber and M. Kirchler) (abstract on JEBO-website)
    • Economics research in Canada: A long-run assessment of journal publications. Canadian Journal of Economics 41 (2008): 22-45. (with J. Davies and M. Kocher) (abstract on CJE-website).
    • Leading by example with and without exclusion power in voluntary contribution experiments. Journal of Public Economics 91 (2007): 1023-1042. (with W. Güth, V. Levati and E. van der Heijden) (abstract on JPubE-website).
    • Trust and trustworthiness across different age groups. Games and Economic Behavior 59 (2007): 364-382. (with M. Kocher) (abstract on GEB-website).
    • Bargaining outside the lab – A newspaper experiment of a three-person ultimatum game. Economic Journal 117 (2007): 449-469. (with W. Güth and C. Schmidt) (abstract on EJ-website).
    • Leading by example in a public goods experiment with heterogeneity and incomplete information. Journal of Conflict Resolution 51 (2007): 793-818. (with V. Levati and E. van der Heijden) (abstract on JCR-website).
    • Trust between individuals and groups: Groups are less trusting than individuals but just as trustworthy. Journal of Economic Psychology 28 (2007): 646-657. (with G. Bornstein, M. Kocher and T. Kugler) (abstract on JOEP-website).
    • Are teams prone to myopic loss aversion? An experimental study on individual versus team investment behavior. Economics Letters 97 (2007): 128-132. (abstract on EL-website).
    • Outcomes versus intentions. On the nature of fair behavior and its development with age. Journal of Economic Psychology 28 (2007): 69-78. (abstract on JOEP-website).
    • Individual versus group behavior and the role of the decision making procedure in gift-exchange experiments. Empirica 34 (2007): 63-88. (with M. Kocher) (abstract on Empirica-website).
    • Individual or team decision making - Causes and consequences of self-selection. Games and Economic Behavior 56 (2006): 259-270. (with M. Kocher and S. Strauss) (abstract on GEB-website).
    • Endogenous versus exogenous allocation of prizes in teams - Theory and experimental evidence. Labour Economics 13 (2006): 519-549. (abstract on LE-website).
    • Time is money - Time pressure, incentives, and the quality of decision-making. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 61 (2006): 375-392. (with M. Kocher) (abstract on JEBO-website).
    • An experimental analysis of voting in the stability and growth pact in EMU. Public Choice 129 (2006): 417-434. (with B. Irlenbusch) (abstract on PUCH-website).
    • Voluntary versus compulsory solidarity - Theory and experiment. JITE - Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 162 (2006): 347-363. (with W. Güth and H. Verbon) (abstract on JITE-website).
    • Measuring productivity of research in economics. A cross-country study using DEA. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 40 (2006): 314-332. (with M. Kocher and M. Luptacik) (abstract on SEPS-website) .
    • Vom Nutzen zusätzlicher Information auf Märkten mit unterschiedlich informierten Händlern - Eine experimentelle Studie. zfbf - Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung 58 (2006): 188-211. (with J. Huber and M. Kirchler) (abstract)
    • The decision maker matters. Individual versus team behavior in experimental beauty-contest games. Economic Journal 115 (2005): 200-223. (with M. Kocher) (abstract on EJ-website).
    • Are four heads better than two? An experimental beauty-contest game with teams of different size. Economics Letters 88 (2005): 41-46. (abstract on EL-website).
    • Individual and collective choice and voting in common pool resource problems with heterogeneous actors. Environmental and Resource Economics 32 (2005): 241-271. (with D. Dittrich and M. Margreiter) (abstract on EARE-website).
    • On the impact of real effort and emotions in power-to-take experiments. Journal of Economic Psychology 26 (2005): 407-429. (with R. Bosman and F. van Winden) (abstract on JOEP-website).
    • Tax evasion and state productivity - An experimental study. Metroeconomica 56 (2005): 85-100. (with W. Güth and S. Strauss) (abstract on Metroeconomica-website) .
    • Favoritism of agents - The case of referees' home bias. Journal of Economic Psychology 25 (2004): 461-469. (with M. Kocher) (abstract on JOEP-website).
    • An experimental test of the public-goods crowding-out hypothesis when taxation is endogenous. Finanzarchiv 60 (2004): 94-110. (with H. Weck-Hannemann) (abstract)
    • Measuring efficiency of German football teams by Data Envelopment Analysis. Central European Journal of Operations Research 12 (2004): 251-268. (with D. Haas and M. Kocher) (abstract)
    • Patterns of co-authorship among economics departments in the U.S.. Applied Economics 36 (2004): 327-333. (with M. Kocher) (abstract on AppE-website).
    • Fairness in the mail and opportunism in the internet - A newspaper experiment on ultimatum bargaining. German Economic Review 4 (2003): 243-265. (with W. Güth and C. Schmidt) (abstract on GER-website).
    • Bargaining under time pressure in an experimental ultimatum game. Economics Letters 81 (2003): 341-347. (with M. Kocher and S. Strauss) (abstract on EL-website).
    • Voting in EMU - An experimental study on institutional innovation and the role of communication in the Stability and Growth Pact. Journal of Common Market Studies 41 (2003): 645-664. (with B. Irlenbusch, U. Leopold-Wildburger and J. Schütze) (abstract on JCMS-website).
    • The political economy of fiscal policy - An experimental study on the strategic use of deficits. Public Choice 116 (2003): 313-332. (abstract on PUCH-website).
    • Government strength, power dispersion in governments and budget deficits in OECD-countries. A voting power approach. Public Choice 116 (2003): 333-350. (with G. Huber and M. Kocher) (abstracton PUCH-website).
    • On the effects of asymmetric and endogenous taxation in experimental public goods games. Economics Letters 79 (2003): 59-67. (with H. Weck-Hannemann) (abstract on EL-website).
    • Investment and bargaining in bilateral joint ventures - An experimental study of family decision making. JITE - Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 159 (2003): 323-341. (with W. Güth, R. Ivanova-Stenzel and H. Weck-Hannemann) (abstract on JITE-website).
    • Can the Stability and Growth Pact in EMU cause budget deficit cycles?. Empirica 30 (2003): 25-38. (with R. Hule) (abstract on Empirica-website).
    • Taxation and the veil of ignorance - A real effort experiment on the Laffer curve. Public Choice 115 (2003): 217-240. (with H. Weck-Hannemann) (abstract on PUCH-website).
    • Experimental 'Beauty Contests' with homogeneous and heterogeneous players and with interior and boundary equilibria. Economics Letters 74 (2002): 219-228. (with W. Güth and M. Kocher) (abstract on EL-website).
    • Public bad prevention by majority voting on redistribution - Experimental evidence. Group Decision and Negotiation 11 (2002): 415-428. (abstract GDN-ebsite).
    • Lack of standardization in informetric research: Reply. Scientometrics 55 (2002): 329-331. (with M. Kocher) (abstract on Scientometrics-website).
    • Representation and educational background of European economistsin top journals of economics. Empirica 29 (2002): 275-288. (with M. Kocher and R. Mrsic) (abstract on Empirica-website).
    • The institutional concentration of authors in top journals of economics during the last two decades. Economic Journal 111 (2001): F405-421. (with M. Kocher) (abstract on EJ-website).
    • Tools for evaluating research output: Are citation-based rankings of economics journals stable?. Evaluation Review 25(2001): 555-566. (with M. Kocher) (abstract on EvalReview-website).
    • Power laws of research output. Evidence for journals of economics. Scientometrics 51(2001): 405-414. (with M. Kocher) (abstract on Scientometrics-website).
    • Fair allocation and re-weighting of votes and voting power in the EU before and after the next enlargement. Journal of Theoretical Politics 12 (2000): 433-449. (abstract on JTP-website).
    • Flexible integration, EMU and relative voting power in the EU. Public Choice 104 (2000): 41-62. (abstract on PUCH-website).
    • Voting and voting power in the Stability Pact. Homo Oeconomicus 15 (1999): 521-542. (abstract)
    • Stabilitätspakt: Eine fiktive ex-post Anwendung und reale Probleme der Zukunft. Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 47 (1998): 317-334. (abstract)
    Working papers 2011 and earlier
    Refereeing and editorial responsibilities
    • Associate Editor Management Science since 2011.
    • Editorial Board Member Experimental Economics since 2009.
    • Associate Editor Journal of Economic Psychology 2006-2010.
    • Associate Editor Management Science, Special Issue on Behavioral Economics and Finance 2010
    • Referee for: • American Economic Review • Econometrica • Quarterly Journal of Economics • Review of Economic Studies • Nature • Science • American Journal of Political Science • American Political Science Review • British Journal of Cancer • Central European Journal of Operations Research • Computers and Operations Research • Economic Inquiry • Economic Journal • Economica • Economics Letters • Empirica • Empirical Economics • European Economic Review • European Integration Online Papers • European Journal of Political Economy • European Journal of Social Psychology • European Psychologist • Experimental Economics • Evolution and Human Behavior • Finanzarchiv • Games and Economic Behavior • German Economic Review • Infant and Child Development • International Journal of Industrial Organization • International Tax and Public Finance • Journal of Conflict Resolution • Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization • Journal of Economic Psychology • Journal of Economics and Management Strategy • Journal of Empirical Legal Studies • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology • Journal of Human Resources • Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics • Journal of Law, Economics and Organization • Journal of Politics • Journal of Public Economic Theory • Journal of Public Economics • Journal of Sports Economics • Journal of Sports Sciences • Journal of Theoretical Politics • Labour Economics • Management Science • Managerial and Decision Economics • National Tax Journal • Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes • Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik • PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences • Psychology and Aging • Public Choice • Review of Economics and Statistics • SCAN - Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience • Scandinavian Journal of Economics • Scottish Journal of Political Economy • Social Choice and Welfare • Southern Economic Journal • Austrian National Bank (Jubiläumsfonds) • European Economic Association (Annual Meeting) • European Science Foundation (ESF) • National Science Foundation (NSF) • Nationalökonomische Gesellschaft (NÖG) • Verband Deutscher Rentenversicherungsträger • Verein für Socialpolitik (Annual Meeting)
    Media coverage (selected)
    • Das Gier-Gen ist noch nicht entdeckt worden. Interview in Der Standard, 7. December 2011.
    • Die Ökonomie menschlichen Verhaltens. Der Standard, 28. September 2011.
    • Mit dem Taxi durch Athen. Vorarlberger Nachrichten, 29. June 2011.
    • Kreuz und Quer: Vom Sinn des Gebens. ORF2, 21. June 2011.
    • Traue niemals einem Taxifahrer. Handelsblatt, 12. May 2011.
    • The gender pay gap could be down to boys being more competitive. The Telegraph, 20. April 2011.
    • Uomini più competitivi per questo guadagnano di più. La Repubblica, 21. April 2011.
    • Taxi drivers take passengers for a ride. The Telegraph, 18. April 2011.
    • Ein Experiment zum Taxifahren in Athen. FehrAdvice Blog .
    • Vertrauen ist gut, Kontrolle ist besser. Handelsblatt, 29. December 2010.
    • Gender and competition. Video on Youtube .
    • TV-Magazine "Scobel" Für eine (neue) Philosophie des Geldes. 3sat, 8. April 2010. (watch the whole magazine at this link) (watch a sequence about my experiments at this link).
    • Mit gutem Beispiel vorangehen. MAN Magazin. March 2010.
    • Leute-Night. SWR (TV), 12. February 2010.
    • Gier, Geiz und andere schlechte Eigenschaften. SRW1-Radio, 8. February 2010.
    • TV-Talkshow "Hart aber fair" Gier. ARD, 20. January 2010.
    • TV-Talkshow "plasberg persönlich" Geld gleich Glück? Verzicht trifft Überfluss. WDR, 6. November 2009.
    • Mädchen sind wettbewerbsscheuer als Buben. ORF on science, 31. August 2009.
    • Banken-crashs: Goldbarren zu horten wäre nicht klug. Spiegel online, 8. October 2008.
    • Children learn rules of equality by age eight. Nature-News, 27. August 2008
    • Fussballistik: Das Trikot. Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), 23. June 2008.
    • Fussballforscher. ORF, 12. and 14. June 2008.
    • Der Abschied vom Homo Oeconomicus. BR2 - IQ, Die Sendung, die Wissen schafft. 7. February 2008.
    • Die 7 Todsünden: Habgier (The seven deadly sins). Pro7, 31. August 2007.
    • Schiedsrichter wollen geliebt werden. Handelsblatt, 29. May 2007.
    • Es lebe der Teamgeist! Handelsblatt, 12. March 2007.
    • Warum man Kindern nicht trauen sollte. WEST, 4. December 2006
    • Selig sind die Ahnungslosen. Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, 3 December 2006.
    • Matthias Sutter: Der Spätberufene. Handelsblatt, 21. November 2006.
    • Vertrauen und Ökonomie. Ö1 Dimensionen, 3. November 2006.
    • Warum Sie Ihrem Kind lieber nicht trauen sollten. Handelsblatt, 9. October 2006.
    • Kein homo oeconomicus. 3sat – nano, 19. September 2006.
    • Der Strafraum als Labor für Ökonomen. Handelsblatt, 29. May 2006.
    • Nobelpreis für Spieltheorie. Ö1 Dimensionen, 9. December 2005.
    • Geben will gelernt sein. Bild der Wissenschaft 9/2005.
    • Die Wissenschaft auf dem Podium – Verleihung des Oberbank-Wissenschaftspreises. WirtschaftsBlatt, 17. November 2004.
    • Von der Theologie zum Finanzmarkt - Portrait von Matthias Sutter. Der Standard, 9. October 2004.
    • Mein Gott! Elfmeter. ARTE TV, 2. July 2004.
    • Schlecht informierten Händlern nützt Wissen nichts. Die Presse, 17. May 2004.
    • Sex and the search for a better deal. The Guardian, 7. April 2004.
    • Verhandlungsverhalten von Männern und Frauen. Ö1 Dimensionen, 20. November 2003.
    • Evaluation von Forschungsoutput. Ö1 Dimensionen, 20. June 2003.
    • Home bias of football referees (live interview). BBC London - Sports, 11. June 2003.
    • Der zwölfte Mann. Die ZEIT, 5. June 2003.
    • Diskriminierung: Warum Schiedsrichter oft ungerecht pfeifen. ORF ON Science . 27. May 2003.
    • Senden unverantwortlicherweise die falschen Signale. Der Standard, 29. March 2003.
    • Schulden, Defizite und Regierungsform. Ö1 Mittagsjournal/ORF-Text, 12. February 2003.
    • Spieltheorie. Ö1 Dimensionen, 23. January 2003.
    • Kein Eigentor bei Teamentscheidungen. Die Presse, 12. October 2002.
    • Die fairen Leser der ZEIT. Ein Preisausschreiben als wissenschaftliches Experiment - mit mehr als 5000 Teilnehmern. DIE ZEIT, 23. November 2001.
    • Effizienz muss sich nicht in der Tabelle zeigen. Studie belegt: Viele Vereine machen zuwenig aus ihren finanziellen Möglichkeiten. Süddeutsche Zeitung, 7. September 2001.
    • Less Ink for U.S. Economists. BusinessWeek, 30. July 2001.
    • European boost as US loosens grip on research. The Guardian, 21. June 2001.
    • Europas Ökonomen holen auf. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 12. July 2000.
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