Matthias Sutter


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

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

Associate Editor Journal of Economic Psychology
Editorial Board Member Experimental Economics

Forthcoming papers
Published papers
Current working papers
Refereeing
Media coverage (selected)
Curriculum vitae - CV (pdf)

 Matthias Sutter


Forthcoming papers
  • NEW in 2010 Choosing the stick or the carrot? – Endogenous institutional choice in social dilemma situations. Review of Economic Studies (with S. Haigner and M. Kocher). (older working paper version).
  • The economics of credence goods: On the role of liability, verifiability, reputation and competition. American Economic Review. (with U. Dulleck and R. Kerschbamer). (older working paper version).
  • Efficiency gains from team-based coordination - Large scale experimental evidence. American Economic Review. (with F. Feri and B. Irlenbusch). (older working paper version).
  • The economic consequences of a Tobin tax - An experimental analysis. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. (with M. Hanke, J. Huber and M. Kirchler). (shorter working paper version).
Published papers
  • Individual behavior and group membership: Comment. American Economic Review 99 (2009): 2247-2257. (working paper version).
  • The excess burden of tax evasion - An experimental detection-concealment contest. European Economic Review 53 (2009): 527-543. (with R. Bayer). (working paper version).
  • Communication, cooperation and collusion in team tournaments - An experimental study. Games and Economic Behavior 66 (2009): 506-525. (with C. Strassmair). (working paper version)
  • Gender pairing and bargaining - Beware the same sex!. Experimental Economics 12 (2009): 318-331. (with R. Bosman, M. Kocher and F. van Winden). (working paper version).
  • Causes, consequences, and cures of myopic loss aversion - An experimental investigation. Economic Journal 119 (2009): 900-916. (with G. Fellner) (working paper version).
  • Individuals and teams in auctions. Oxford Economic Papers 61 (2009): 380-394. (with M. Kocher and S. Strauss) (latest working paper version; with old title "Individuals and teams in UMTS-license auctions").
  • Group polarization in the team dictator game reconsidered. Experimental Economics 12 (2009): 26-41. (with M. Kocher and W. Luhan) (working paper version)
  • Deception through telling the truth?! Experimental evidence from individuals and teams. Economic Journal 119 (2009): 47-60. (working paper version)
  • Searching for a better deal – On the influence of group decision making, time pressure and gender in a search experiment . Journal of Economic Psycholgy 30: 1-10. (with S. Czermak and M. Ibanez). (working paper version).
  • Conditional cooperation on three continents. Economics Letters 101 (2008): 175-178. (with M. Kocher, T. Cherry, S. Kroll and R. Netzer) (working paper version).
  • 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).
  • Trust in cooperation or ability? An experimental study on gender differences. Economics Letters 99 (2008): 494-497. (with C. Schwieren) (working paper version)
  • The value of information and optimal trading strategies in markets with heterogeneously informed traders. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 65 (2008): 86-104. (with J. Huber and M. Kirchler) (abstract)
  • 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) (working paper version)
  • 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)
  • Trust and trustworthiness across different age groups. Games and Economic Behavior 59 (2007): 364-382. (with M. Kocher) (abstract)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Are teams prone to myopic loss aversion? An experimental study on individual versus team investment behavior. Economics Letters 97 (2007): 128-132. (abstract)
  • Outcomes versus intentions. On the nature of fair behavior and its development with age. Journal of Economic Psychology 28 (2007): 69-78. (abstract)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Endogenous versus exogenous allocation of prizes in teams - Theory and experimental evidence. Labour Economics 13 (2006): 519-549. (abstract)
  • 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)
  • An experimental analysis of voting in the stability and growth pact in EMU. Public Choice 129 (2006): 417-434. (with B. Irlenbusch) (abstract)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Are four heads better than two? An experimental beauty-contest game with teams of different size. Economics Letters 88 (2005): 41-46. (abstract)
  • 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 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)
  • Tax evasion and state productivity - An experimental study. Metroeconomica 56 (2005): 85-100. (with W. Güth and S. Strauss) (abstract)
  • Favoritism of agents - The case of referees' home bias. Journal of Economic Psychology 25 (2004): 461-469. (with M. Kocher) (abstract)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Bargaining under time pressure in an experimental ultimatum game. Economics Letters 81 (2003): 341-347. (with M. Kocher and S. Strauss) (abstract)
  • 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)
  • The political economy of fiscal policy - An experimental study on the strategic use of deficits. Public Choice 116 (2003): 313-332. (abstract)
  • 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) (abstract)
  • On the effects of asymmetric and endogenous taxation in experimental public goods games. Economics Letters 79 (2003): 59-67. (with H. Weck-Hannemann) (abstract)
  • 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)
  • Can the Stability and Growth Pact in EMU cause budget deficit cycles?. Empirica 30 (2003): 25-38. (with R. Hule) (abstract)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Public bad prevention by majority voting on redistribution - Experimental evidence. Group Decision and Negotiation 11 (2002): 415-428. (abstract)
  • Lack of standardization in informetric research: Reply. Scientometrics 55 (2002): 329-331. (with M. Kocher)
  • Representation and educational background of European economistsin top journals of economics. Empirica 29 (2002): 275-288. (with M. Kocher and R. Mrsic) (abstract)
  • 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)
  • Tools for evaluating research output: Are citation-based rankings of economics journals stable?. Evaluation Review 25(2001): 555-566. (with M. Kocher) (abstract)
  • Power laws of research output. Evidence for journals of economics. Scientometrics 51(2001): 405-414. (with M. Kocher) (abstract)
  • 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)
  • Flexible integration, EMU and relative voting power in the EU. Public Choice 104 (2000): 41-62. (abstract)
  • 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)
Current working papers
Refereeing
  • Referee for: • American Economic Review • American Political Science Review • British Journal of Cancer • Central European Journal of Operations Research • Computers and Operations Research • Econometrica • Economic Inquiry • Economic Journal • Economica • Empirica • Empirical Economics • European Economic Review • European Integration Online Papers • European Journal of Political Economy • European Journal of Social Psychology • European Psychologist • Experimental Economics • 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 Experimental Child Psychology • Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics • 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 • Nature • Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes • Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik • Public Choice • Review of Economic Studies • Scandinavian Journal of Economics • 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)
  • 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. (watch the whole talkshow at this link).
  • TV-Talkshow "plasberg persönlich" Geld gleich Glück? Verzicht trifft Überfluss. WDR, 6. November 2009. (watch the whole talkshow at this link).
  • 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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