Matthias Sutter

Research Fellow

Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

Research Interests

Matthias Sutter (born 1968) has been Director at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods since August 2017. He is also part-time professor of experimental economics at the Universities of Cologne and Innsbruck. Previously he was working full-time at the European University Institute in Florence (2013-2014), at the University of Innsbruck (2006-2013), the University of Cologne (2005-2006, 2015-2017) and the Max Planck Institute of Economics Jena (2003-2005). He got his PhD in economics (1999) from the University of Innsbruck where he also finished his habilitation (2002). From July 2007 to June 2013 he was also Professor (part-time) at the University of Gothenburg. His research focuses on the experimental analysis of team decision making, credence goods markets and the development of economic decision making with age. He has published his work in all top-5 journals of economics (QJE, AER, JPE, ECMA, REStud), and also in Science, Nature Communications, PNAS, Management Science, Games and Economic Behavior, Economic Journal, or European Economic Review. He is currently Associate Editor of "Management Science", of "European Economic Review", of "Quantitative Economics" and of "Economics Letters", and Editorial Board Member of "Experimental Economics" and of "Journal of the Economic Science Association". He was Associate Editor of "Journal of the European Economic Association" (2017-2022) and "Journal of Economic Psychology" (2006-2010). His work earned him several prizes, among others the Hans Kelsen Prize of the University of Cologne (2017), the Exeter Prize for Research in Experimental Economics, Decision Theory and Behavioral Economics (2015), Science Prize of the State of Tyrol (2009), the Honorary Prize for Science of the State of Vorarlberg (2008) and the Oberbank Science Prize (2004). He also writes popular science books, in 2014 "Die Entdeckung der Geduld" (translated into Chinese and Turkish), in 2022 "Der menschliche Faktor oder worauf es im Berufsleben ankommt". The latter was published as an English edition as "Behavioral Economics for Leaders".

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in July 2007.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14467
Zvonimir Bašić, Parampreet C. Bindra, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Angelo Romano, Matthias Sutter, Claudia Zoller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14401
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 220, 104837
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14169
revised version forthcoming in: Management Science (accepted January 2023)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14025
published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2021, 130, 131-147
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13999
Gary Charness, Ramón Cobo-Reyes, Erik Eyster, Gabriel Katz, Ángela Sánchez, Matthias Sutter
revised version publishedd as 'Improving children’s food choices: Experimental evidence from the field: in: European Economic Review, 2023, 159, 104562
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13798
published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 130, 103593
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