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Grimalda, G., Murtin, F., Pipke, D., Putterman, L., & Sutter, M. (forthcoming). Did the outbreak of COVID-19 and individual exposure to it increase in-group bias in the United States? An experimental investigation of inter-ethnic trust. Economica

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Priyam, S., Salicath, D., & Sutter, M. (2026). An information-intervention in India reduces consumption of arsenic-contaminated drinking water and has small effects on health. PNAS Nexus, 5(4), pgag093

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Sutter, M. (forthcoming). Ein verhaltensökonomischer Blick auf Gehaltsunterschiede zwischen Frauen und Männern. Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik

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Vassiliou, P. T. B., Ainamani, H. E., Döring, S., Gredebäck, G., Leku, M. R., Peltonen, K., … Hall, J. (2026). Self-Help Plus for refugee mothers in Rhino Refugee Settlement, Uganda (SEED): Study protocol for a cluster-randomized controlled trial assessing intergenerational effects on preschool-aged children. Trials, 27, 173

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Sutter, M., & Schneider, S. O. (2026). Risk preferences and field behavior: The relevance of higher-order risk preferences. American Economic Review, 116(1), 88–118

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2025

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Glätzle-Rützler, D., Sutter, M., & Zoller, C. (2025). Coordination games played by children and teenagers: On the influence of age, group size and incentives. Experimental Economics, 28(2), 217–236

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Alan, S., Corekcioglu, G., Kaba, M., & Sutter, M. (forthcoming). Female leadership and workplace climate. Management Science

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Dertwinkel-Kalt, M., Feldhaus, C., Ockenfels, A., & Sutter, M. (2025). The illusion of moral superiority: Evidence from the energy crisis. European Economic Review, 178, 105093

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Hall, J., Ainamani, H. E., Vassiliou, P. T. B., Döring, S., Gredebäck, G., Peltonen, K., … Hecker, T. (2025). Combining mental health and climate-smart agricultural interventions to improve food security in humanitarian settings: study protocol for the THRIVE cluster-randomized controlled trial with mothers in Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda. Trials, 26, 331

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Puente-Beccar, M., Sutter, M., & Tissen, J. (forthcoming). Training youth for the labor market: Insights from an RCT in four African countries. Journal of Development Economics (Conditionally accepted via Pre-Results Review)

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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, 107(3), 771–785

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Bayer, C., Bierbrauer, F., Ockenfels, A., & Sutter, M. (2025). ECONtribute: Markets & Public Policy: Agenda und ausgewählte Forschungsschwerpunkte. Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 26(1), 34–48

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2024

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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. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(48), e2411740121

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Kaba, M., Koyuncu, M., Schneider, S. O., & Sutter, M. (2024). Social norms, political polarization, and vaccination attitudes: Evidence from a survey experiment in Turkey. European Economic Review, 168, 104818

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Detlefsen, L., Friedl, A., Lima de Miranda, K., Schmidt, U., & Sutter, M. (2024). Are economic preferences shaped by the family context? The impact of birth order and siblings’ sex composition on economic preferences. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 69, 1–31

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Balafoutas, L., Batsaikhan, M., & Sutter, M. (2024). Competitiveness of entrepreneurs and salaried workers. Management Science, 70(5), 2900–2911

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Praxmarer, M., Rockenbach, B., & Sutter, M. (2024). Cooperation and norm enforcement differ strongly across adult generations. European Economic Review, 162, 104659

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Alysandratos, T., Georganas, S., & Sutter, M. (forthcoming). Disentangling reputation from selection effects in markets with informational asymmetries – a field experiment. Review of Economics and Statistics

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2023

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Charness, G., Feri, F., Melendez-Jimenez, M. A., & 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

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Charness, G., Cobo-Reyes, R., Eyster, E., Katz, G., Sánchez, A., & Sutter, M. (2023). Improving children's food choices: Experimental evidence from the field. European Economic Review, 159, 104562

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Barron, K., Harmgart, H., Huck, S., Schneider, S., & 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

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Gill, A., Heinz, M., Schumacher, H., & Sutter, M. (2023). Social preferences of young professionals and the financial industry. Management Science, 69(7), 3905–3919

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Grimalda, G., Murtin, F., Pipke, D., Putterman, L., & Sutter, M. (2023). The politicized pandemic: Ideological polarization and the behavioral response to COVID-19. European Economic Review, 156, 104472

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Stefan, M., Huber, J., Kirchler, M., Sutter, M., & Walzl, M. (2023). Monetary and social incentives in multi-tasking: The ranking substitution effect. European Economic Review, 156, 104458

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Buffat, J., Praxmarer, M., & Sutter, M. (2023). The intrinsic value of decision rights: A note on team versus individual decision-making. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 209, 560–571

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Angerer, S., Bolvashenkova, J., Glätzle-Rützler, D., Lergetporer, P., & Sutter, M. (2023). Children’s patience and school-track choices several years later: Linking experimental and field data. Journal of Public Economics, 220, 104837

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Kerschbamer, R., Neururer, D., & Sutter, M. (2023). Credence goods markets, online information and repair prices: A natural field experiment. Journal of Public Economics, 222, 104891

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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, qjac034

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Fang, X., Goette, L., Rockenbach, B., Sutter, M., Tiefenbeck, V., Schoeb, S., & Staake, S. (2023). Complementarities in behavioral interventions: Evidence from a field experiment on resource conservations. Journal of Public Economics, 228, 105028

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2022

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Chowdhury, S., Sutter, M., & Zimmermann, K. F. (2022). Economic preferences across generations and family clusters: A large-scale experiment in a developing country. Journal of Political Economy, 130(9), 2361–2410

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Sutter, M., Untertrifaller, A., & Zoller, C. (2022). Grit increases strongly in early childhood and is related to parental background. Scientific Reports, 12, 3561

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Romano, A., Sutter, M., Liu, J. H., Yamagishi, T., & Balliet, D. (2022). Author correction: National parochialism is ubiquitous across 42 nations around the world. Nature Communications, 13, 196

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2021

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Terrier, C., Chen, D. L., & 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

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Glätzle-Rützler, D., Lergetporer, P., & Sutter, M. (2021). Collective intertemporal decisions and heterogeneity in groups. Games and Economic Behavior, 130, 131–147

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Angerer, S., Glätzle-Rützler, D., Lergetporer, P., & Sutter, M. (2021). The effects of language on patience: An experimental replication study of the linguistic-savings hypothesis in Austria. Journal of the Economic Science Association, 7, 88–97

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Romano, A., Sutter, M., Liu, J. H., Yamagishi, T., & Balliet, D. (2021). National parochialism is ubiquitous across 42 nations around the world. Nature Communications, 12, 4456

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Bindra, P. C., Kerschbamer, R., Neururer, D., & Sutter, M. (2021). On the value of second opinions: A credence goods field experiment. Economics Letters, 205, 109925

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Kassis, M., Schmidt, S. L., Schreyer, D., & Sutter, M. (2021). Psychological pressure and the right to determine the moves in dynamic tournaments: Evidence from a natural field experiment. Games and Economic Behavior, 126, 278–287

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Romano, A., Sutter, M., Liu, J. H., & Balliet, D. (2021). Political ideology, cooperation, and national parochialism across 42 nations. Philsophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 376, 20200146

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Romano, A., Bortolotti, S., Hofmann, W., Praxmarer, M., & Sutter, M. (2021). Generosity and cooperation across the life span: A Lab-in-the-field study. Psychology and Aging, 36(1), 108–118

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2020

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Heinz, M., Jeworrek, S., Mertins, V., Schuhmacher, H., & Sutter, M. (2020). Measuring the indirect effects of adverse employer behavior on worker productivity: A field experiment. Economic Journal, 130(632), 2546–2568

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Dertwinkel-Kalt, M., Köster, M., & Sutter, M. (2020). To buy or not to buy? Price salience in an online shopping field experiment. European Economic Review, 130, 103593

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Sutter, C., Rosenberger, W., & Sutter, M. (2020). Nudging with your child's education: A field experiment on collecting municipal dues when enforcement is scant. Economics Letters, 191, 109116

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Sutter, M., Huber, J., Kirchler, M., Stefan, M., & Walzl, M. (2020). Where to look for the morals in markets? Experimental Economics, 23(1), 30–52

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Sutter, M., & Untertrifaller, A. (2020). Children's heterogeneity in cooperation and parental background: An experimental study. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 171, 286–296

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2019

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Balafoutas, L., & Sutter, M. (2019). How uncertainty and ambiguity in tournaments affect gender differences in competitive behavior. European Economic Review, 118, 1–13

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Fehr, D., & Sutter, M. (2019). Gossip and the efficiency of interactions. Games and Economic Behavior, 113, 448–460

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Linnér, R. K., Biroli, P., Kong, E., Meddens, S. F. W., Wedow, R., Fontana, M. A., … Beauchamp, P. D. K. J. P. (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, 245–257

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Sutter, M., Claudia, Z., & Glätzle-Rützler, D. (2019). Economic behavior of children and adolescents: A first survey of experimental economics results. European Economic Review, 111, 98–121

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2018

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Ahn, T. K., Balafoutas, L., Batsaikhan, M., Campos-Ortiz, F., Putterman, L., & Sutter, M. (2018). Trust and communication in a property rights dilemma. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 149, 413–433

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Balafoutas, L., Fornwagner, H., & Sutter, M. (2018). Closing the gender gap in competitiveness through priming. Nature Communications, 9, 4359

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Cooper, D. J., & Sutter, M. (2018). Endogenous role assignment and team performance. International Economic Review, 59(3), 1547–1569

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Sutter, M. (2018). Mobilität neu denken. Die Volkswirtschaft. Plattform für Wirtschaftspolitik, 91(10), 20–23

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Sutter, M., Angerer, S., Glätzle-Rützler, D., & Lergetporer, P. (2018). Language group differences in time preferences: Evidence from primary school children in a bilingual city. European Economic Review, 106, 21–34

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Sutter, M., Feri, F., Glätzle-Rützler, D., Kocher, M., Martinsson, P., & Nordblom, K. (2018). Social preferences in childhood and adolescence: A large-scale experiment to estimate primary and secondary motivations. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 146, 16–30

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2017

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Angerer, S., Dutcher, E. G., Glätzle-Rützler, D., Lergetporer, P., & Sutter, M. (2017). Gender differences in discrimination emerge early in life: Evidence from primary school children in a bilingual city. Economics Letters, 152, 15–18

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Balafoutas, L., Kerschbamer, R., & Sutter, M. (2017). Second degree moral hazard in a credence goods market. Economic Journal, 127(599), 1–8

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Balafoutas, L., & Sutter, M. (2017). On the nature of guilt aversion: Insights from a new methodology in the dictator game. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 13(1), 9–15

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Huber, J., Kirchler, M., Kleinlercher, D., & Sutter, M. (2017). Market versus residence principle: Experimental evidence on the effects of a financial transaction tax. The Economic Journal, 127, F610–F631

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Kerschbamer, R., & Sutter, M. (2017). The economics of credence goods: A survey of recent lab and field experiments. CESifo Economic Studies, 63(1), 1–23

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Kerschbamer, R., Sutter, M., & Dulleck, U. (2017). How social preferences shape incentives in (experimental) markets for credence goods. Economic Journal, 127, 393–416

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2016

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Ahn, T. K., Balafoutas, L., Batsaikhan, M., Campos-Ortiz, F., & Sutter, M. (2016). Securing Property Rights: A Dilemma Experiment in Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Journal of Public Economics, 143, 115–124

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Angerer, S., Glätzle-Rützler, D., Lergetporer, P., & Sutter, M. (2016). Cooperation and discrimination within and across language borders: Evidence from children in a bilingual city. European Economic Review, 90, 254–264

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Balafoutas, L., Davis, B., & Sutter, M. (2016). Affirmative action or just discrimination? A study on the endogenous emergence of quotas. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 127, 87–98

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Czermak, S., Feri, F., Glätzle-Rützler, D., & Sutter, M. (2016). How strategic are children and adolescents? Experimental evidence from normal-form games. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 128, 265–285

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Kerschbamer, R., Neururer, D., & Sutter, M. (2016). Insurance coverage of customers induces dishonesty of sellers in markets for credence goods. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(27), 7454–7458

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Kirchler, M., Huber, J., Stefan, M., & Sutter, M. (2016). Market design and moral behavior. Management science, 62(9), 2615–2625

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Sutter, M., Glätzle-Rützler, D., Balafoutas, L., & Czermak, S. (2016). Cancelling out early age gender differences in competition: an analysis of policy interventions. Experimental Economics, 19(2), 412–432

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2015

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Angerer, S., Glätzle-Rützler, D., Lergetporer, P., & Sutter, M. (2015). Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences: A study on altruism in primary school children. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 115, 67–74

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Angerer, S., Lergetporer, P., Glätzle-Rützler, D., & Sutter, M. (2015). How to measure time preferences in children: a comparison of two methods. Journal of the Economic Science Association, 1(2), 158–169

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Balafoutas, L., Beck, A., Kerschbamer, R., & Sutter, M. (2015). The hidden costs of tax evasion – Collaborative tax evasion in markets for expert services. Journal of Public Economics, 129, 14–25

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Balafoutas, L., & Sutter, M. (2015). Zur Wettbewerbsbereitschaft von Männern und Frauen – Experimentelle Analysen. Tagungsband: Wissenschaftsenquete des Landes Tirol. 26. März 2012, 147–153

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Dutcher, E. G., Balafoutas, L., Florian, L., Ryvkin, D., & Sutter, M. (2015). Strive to be first or avoid being last: An experiment on relative performance incentives. Games and Economic Behavior, 94, 39–56

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Glätzle-Rützler, D., Sutter, M., & Zeileis, A. (2015). No myopic loss aversion in adolescents? – An experimental note. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 111, 169–176

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Sutter, M., & Glätzle-Rützler, D. (2015). Gender differences in the willingness to compete emerge early in life and persist. Management science, 61(10), 2339–2354

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Sutter, M., Oberauer, M., & Yilmaz, L. (2015). Delay of Gratification and the Role of Defaults: An Experiment with Kindergarten Children. Economics Letters, 137, 21–24

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Volz, K., Vogeley, K., Tittgemeyer, M., von Cramon, Y., & Sutter, M. (2015). The neural basis of deception in strategic interactions. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 27

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2014

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Balafoutas, L., Kerschbamer, R., Kocher, M., & Sutter, M. (2014). Revealed distributional preferences: Individuals vs. teams. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 108, 319–330

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Beck, A., Kerschbamer, R., Qiu, J., & Sutter, M. (2014). Car mechanics in the lab––Investigating the behavior of real experts on experimental markets for credence goods. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 108, 166–173

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Charness, G., Feri, F., Meléndez-Jiménez, M. A., & Sutter, M. (2014). Experimental Games on Networks: Underpinnings of Behavior and Equilibrium Selection. Econometrica, 82(5), 1615–1670

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Kocher, M., Sutter, M., & Wakolbinger, F. (2014). Social Learning in Beauty-Contest Games. Southern Economic Journal, 80(3), 586–613

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Lergetporer, P., Angerer, S., Glätzle-Rützler, D., & Sutter, M. (2014). Third-party punishment increases cooperation in children through (misaligned) expectations and conditional cooperation. PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 11, 6916–6921

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Sutter, M., & Rivas, F. (2014). Leadership, reward, and punishment in sequential public goods experiments. Reward and Punishment in Social Dilemmas, 133–160. Oxford: Oxford University Press

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van Damme, E., Binmore, K. G., Roth, A. E., Samuelson, L., Winter, E., Bolten, G. E., … Azar, O. H. (2014). How Werner Güth's ultimatum game shaped our understanding of social behavior. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 108, 292–218

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2013

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Albrecht, K., Volz, K. G., Sutter, M., & von Cramon, D. Y. (2013). What do I want and when do I want it: brain correlates of decisions made for self and other. PLoS ONE, e73531

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Balafoutas, L., Beck, A., Kerschbamer, R., & Sutter, M. (2013). What Drives Taxi Drivers? A Field Experiment on Fraud in a Market for Credence Goods. The Review of Economic Studies, 80(3), 876–891

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Balafoutas, L., Kocher, M., Putterman, L., & Sutter, M. (2013). Equality, equity and incentives: An experiment. European Economic Review, 60, 32–51

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Beck, A., Kerschbamer, R., Qiu, J., & Sutter, M. (2013). Shaping beliefs in experimental markets for expert services: Guilt aversion and the impact of promises and money-burning options. Games and Economic Behavior, 81, 145–164

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Carlsson, F., Martinsson, P., Qin, P., & Sutter, M. (2013). The influence of spouses on household decision making under risk: An experiment in rural China. Experimental Economics, 16(3), 383–403

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Fehr, E., Glätzle-Rützler, D., & Sutter, M. (2013). The development of egalitarianism, altruism, spite and parochialism in childhood and adolescence. European Economic Review, 64, 369–383

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Kocher, M., Pogrebna, G., & Sutter, M. (2013). Other-regarding preferences and leadership styles. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 88, 109–132

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Linder, F., & Sutter, M. (2013). Level-k reasoning and time pressure in the 11-20 money request game. Economics Letters, 120(3), 542–545

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Maciejovsky, B., Sutter, M., Budescu, D. V., & Bernau, P. (2013). Teams Make You Smarter: How Exposure to Teams Improves Individual Decisions in Probability and Reasoning Tasks. Management science, 59(6), 1255–1270

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Sutter, M., Czermak, S., & Feri, F. (2013). Strategic sophistication of individuals and teams. Experimental evidence. European Economic Review, 64, 395–410

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Sutter, M., Kocher, M. G., Glätzle-Rützler, D., & Trautmann, S. T. (2013). Impatience and Uncertainty: Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior. American Economic Association, 103(1), 510–531

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2012

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Balafoutas, L., Kerschbamer, R., & Sutter, M. (2012). Distributional preferences and competitive behavior. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 83, 125–135

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Balafoutas, L., Lindner, F., & Sutter, M. (2012). Sabotage in Tournaments: Evidence from a Natural Experiment. Kyklos, 65, 425–441

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Balafoutas, L., & Sutter, M. (2012). Affirmative action policies promote women and do not harm efficiency in the lab. Science, 335(6068), 579–582

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