Why leadership is so important for cooperation: Insights from behavioral economics
Institutskolloquium
- Datum: 09.05.2025
- Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 12:00
- Vortragender: Prof. Matthias Sutter
- Prof. Matthias Sutter is Managing Director at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn, and also Professor for Experimental Economics at the University of Cologne and the University of Innsbruck. Matthias Sutter, born in 1968, received his doctorate in economics from the University of Innsbruck in 1999, where he also habilitated in 2002. From 2003 to 2005, he was C3-professor at the Max Planck Institute for Economics in Jena. Subsequent positions included chairs at the University of Cologne (2005-2006, 2015-2017), the University of Innsbruck (2006-2013) and the European University Institute in Florence (2013-2014). From July 2007 to June 2013, he was also a part-time professor at the University of Gothenburg. Since 2017, Sutter is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods and leads the experimental economics group. He is still part-time professor at the Universities of Cologne and Innsbruck where he teaches experimental economics. He has published in all Top-5 journals in economics, but also in “Science”, “Nature Communications” or “PNAS”. Sutter also writes popular science books, like “Behavioral Economics for Leaders” (2023). His German books “Die Entdeckung der Geduld” (2018) and “Der menschliche Faktor” (2022) both hit the Austrian bestseller lists.
- Ort: IPP Garching
- Raum: Arnulf-Schlüter Lecture Hall in Building D2 and Zoom
- Gastgeber: IPP
- Kontakt: stefan.possanner@ipp.mpg.de
Cooperation helps us achieve goals that would be impossible to reach alone. But which factors determine cooperation, and what is the role of leadership for cooperation in groups? Matthias Sutter presents in his presentation insights from behavioral economics, a relatively young subdiscipline of economics. Based on largely experimental work, he shows how incentives, fairness concerns, social norms and leadership affect the level of cooperation in groups. He puts particular emphasis on the importance of leadership and illustrates how good people management skills can make a difference for workplace culture and cooperation in companies.