Research focuses

Experimental economics, children’s economic preferences, team decision making, credence goods markets, patience, public goods

Curriculum vitae

• 2017 - Director Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods Bonn
• 2017 - Part-time Professor for Design and Behavior, University of Cologne
• 2015 - 2017 Excellence Professor for Design and Behaviour, University of Cologne
• 2013 - 2014 Professor of Applied Economics, European University Institute, Florence
• 2013 - 2014 Member of the International Faculty, University of Cologne
• 2006 - Full Professor of Experimental Economics, University of Innsbruck (currently part-time)
• 2007 - 2013 Part-time Professor, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
• 2005 - 2006 Full Professor, Department of Economics, University of Cologne
• 2003 - 2005 C3-Professor, Max Planck Institute of Economics Jena
• 2002 Economics, Habilitation (Venia legendi)
• 2002 - 2003 Associate Professor, Institute of Public Economics, University Innsbruck
• 1999 - 2002 Assistant Professor, Institute of Public Economics, University Innsbruck
• 1996 - 1999 Economics, Doctorate (Dr. rer. soc. oec.; with distinction)
• 1992 - 1996 Economics, Master (Mag. rer. soc. oec.; with distinction)

Selected publications

• Alysandratos, T., Georganas, S., Sutter, M. (2025), Reputation vs selection effects in markets with informational asymmetries. Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
• Bortolotti, S., Soraperra, I., Sutter, M., Zoller, C. (2025), Too lucky to be true. Fairness views under the shadow of cheating. Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
• Dertwinkel-Kalt, M., Feldhaus, C., Ockenfels, A., Sutter, M. (2024), Household reduction of gas consumption in the energy crisis is not explained by individual economic incentives. PNAS – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121(48), e2411740121.
• Balafoutas, L., Batsaikhan, M., Sutter, M. (2024), Competitiveness of entrepreneurs and salaried workers. Management Science 70(5): 2900-2911.
• Alan, S., Corekcioglu, G., Sutter, M. (2023), Improving workplace climate in large corporations: A clustered randomized intervention. Quarterly Journal of Economics 138(1): 151-203.
• Charness, G., Feri, F., Melendez-Jimenez, M., Sutter, M. (2023), An experimental study on the effects of communication, credibility, and clustering in network games. Review of Economics and Statistics 105(6): 1530-1543.
• Barron, K., Harmgart, H., Huck, S., Schneider, S. O., Sutter, M. (2023), Discrimination, narratives and family History: An experiment with Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children. Review of Economics and Statistics 105(4): 1008–1016.
• Gill, A., Heinz, M., Schumacher, H., Sutter, M. (2023), Social preferences of young professionals and the financial industry. Management Science 69(7): 3905-3919.
• Chowdhury, S., Sutter, M., Zimmermann, K. (2022), Economic preferences across generations and family clusters: A large-scale experiment in a developing country. Journal of Political Economy 130(9): 2361-2410.
• Terrier, C., Chen, D., Sutter, M. (2021), COVID-19 within families amplifies the prosociality gap between adolescents of high and low socioeconomic status. PNAS – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118(46): e2110891118.
• Romano, A., Sutter, M., Liu, J., Yamagishi, T., Balliet, D. (2021), National parochialism is ubiquitous across 42 countries around the world. Nature Communications 12: 4456. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24787-1.
• Heinz, M., Jeworrek, S., Mertins, V., Schumacher, H., Sutter, M. (2020), Measuring indirect effects of unfair employer behavior on worker productivity – A field experiment. Economic Journal 130(632): 2546-2568.
• Karlsson 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 51(2), 245-257.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.