Browsing by Author "Sutter, Matthias"
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The Economics of Credence Goods: On the Role of Liability, Verifiability, Reputation and Competition
Dulleck, Uwe; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias (2009-03-02)Credence goods markets are characterized by asymmetric information between sellers and consumers that may give rise to inefficiencies, such as under- and overtreatment or market break-down. We study in a large experiment ... -
Gender, Competition and the Efficiency of Policy Intervention
Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias (2010-05-18)Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three alternative policy interventions to promote women in competitions: Quotas, Preferential Treatment, and ... -
Group Decision Making Under Risk: An experiment with student couples
He, Haoran; Martinsson, Peter; Sutter, Matthias (2011-12)In an experiment, we study risk-taking of cohabitating student couples, finding that couples’ decisions are closer to risk-neutrality than single partners’ decisions. This finding is similar to earlier experiments with ... -
Guilt from Promise-Breaking and Trust in Markets for Expert Services – Theory and Experiment
Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Qiu, Jianying; Sutter, Matthias (2010-03-17)We examine the influence of guilt and trust on the performance of credence goods markets. An expert can make a promise to a consumer first, whereupon the consumer can express her trust by paying an interaction price ... -
Household decision making and the influence of spouses’ income, education, and communist party membership: A field experiment in rural China
Carlsson, Fredrik; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping; Sutter, Matthias (2009-04-20)We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We find that spouses’ ... -
Household Decision Making in Rural China: Using Experiments to Estimate the Influences of Spouses
Carlsson, Fredrik; He, Haoran; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping; Sutter, Matthias (2010-08)Many economic decisions are made jointly within households. This raises the question about spouses’ relative influence on joint decisions and the determinants of relative influence. Using a controlled experiment (on ... -
Psychological pressure in competitive environments: Evidence from a randomized natural experiment: Comment
Kocker, Martin G.; Lenz, Marc V.; Sutter, Matthias (2010-03-31)Apesteguia and Palacios-Huerta (forthcoming) report for a sample of 129 shootouts from various seasons in ten different competitions that teams kicking first in soccer penalty shootouts win significantly more often than ... -
Searching for a better deal - on the influence of group decision making, time pressure and gender in a search experiment
Ibanez, Marcela; Czermak, Simon; Sutter, Matthias (2008-04-07)We study behavior in a search experiment where sellers receive randomized bids from a computer. At any time, sellers can accept the highest standing bid or ask for another bid at positive costs. We find that sellers stop ... -
Social preferences during childhood and the role of gender and age - An experiment in Austria and Sweden
Martinsson, Peter; Nordblom, Katarina; Rützler, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias (2010-11)We examine social preferences of Swedish and Austrian children and adolescents using the experimental design of Charness and Rabin (2002). We find that difference aversion decreases while social-welfare preferences increase ... -
Social preferences in childhood and adolescence - A large-scale experiment
Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin G.; Martinsson, Peter; Nordblom, Katarina; Rützler, Daniela (2010-06)Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants ... -
Strategic Sophistication of Individuals and Teams in Experimental Normal-Form Games
Sutter, Matthias; Czermak, Simon; Feri, Francesco (2010-02-01)We present an experiment on strategic thinking and behavior of individuals and teams in oneshot normal-form games. Besides making choices, decision makers have to state their firstand second-order beliefs. We find that ...