Prof. Dr. Heinrich Nax

Professor for Sociology
Institute of Sociology, University of Zurich

Heinrich Nax is a Behavioral Game Theorist with a background in economics and philosophy. He currently holds the position of Assistant Professor at the University of Zurich and is a Privatdozent at ETH. With a wealth of experience, having worked at prestigious institutions like the London School of Economics, Oxford, and École normale sup (Paris School of Economics), his research interests include (Behavioral) Market Design and Learning in Games as applied to markets and collective goods. Heinrich's work has been used in the industry, particularly at Golden Set Analytics (tennis strategy consultancy), Rally (trading platform for collectible assets), and Orderfox (matching platform for industrial manufacturing).

Secilmis, L., Secilmis, T., Jantschgi, S., & Nax, H. H. (2025). Decisions in the Basketball Endgame: A Downside of the Three-Point Revolution. Games, 16(6), 64. https://doi.org/10.3390/g16060064

Depoorter, B., Jantschgi, S., Lendl, I., Mlakar, M., & Nax, H. H. (2025). Minimax under pressure: The case of tennis. Games, 16(6), 60. https://doi.org/10.3390/g16060060

Groundwater Usage and Strategic Complements: Part I (Instrumental Variables), in Games, 2022, 13(5), 67, (with Caleb M. Koch).https://doi.org/10.3390/g13050067

Market sentiments and convergence dynamics in decentralized assignment economies, in Int J Game Theory, 2020, 49(1), 275–298, (with Bary S.R. Pradelski). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00182-019-00694-0

Rational altruism? On preference estimation and dictator game experiments, in Games and Economic Behavior, 2020, 119, 309–338, (with Philip D. Grech). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2019.10.004

Learning in a black box, in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 127, 1–15, (with Maxwell N. Burton-Chellew, Stuart A. West, and H. Peyton Young). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2016.04.006

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