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).

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

A behavioral study of “noise” in coordination games, in Journal of Economic Theory, 2016, 162, 195–208, (with Michael Mäs). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2015.12.010

Evolutionary dynamics and equitable core selection in assignment games, in Int J Game Theory, 2015, 44, 903–932, (with Bary S.R. Pradelski). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00182-014-0459-1

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