Prof. Dr. Paul Heidhues

Professor für Verhaltens- und Wettbewerbsökonomie

Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Universitätsstr. 1
40225 Düsseldorf Gebäude: 24.31
Etage/Raum: 01.13

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2005	Habilitation, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland
2000	Ph.D. in Economics, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
1993	Master in Economics, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australien

Seit 10/2016	Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Professor für Verhaltens- und Wettbewerbsökonomie, Düsseldorf, Deutschland
Seit 2016	Distinguished Affiliate Professor, ESMT, Berlin, Deutschland
2019 - 2023	Visiting Professor, briq (Behavior and Inequality Research Institute), Bonn, Deutschland
2005 - 2010	Professor (W2) für Mikrotheorie, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Deutschland
2009 - 2010	Gastwissenschaftler, University of California, Berkeley, USA
2005	Vertretungsprofessur, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Deutschland
1999 - 2005	Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), Berlin, Deutschland
Frühling 2003	Gastwissenschaftler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
Herbst 2002	Gastwissenschaftler, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
1998 - 1999	Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), Berlin, Deutschland

Heidhues, P., M. Köster und B. Kőszegi (2023), "Steering fallible consumers", Economic Journal, 133 (Mai), S. 1430-1465.
Heidhues, P. und P. Strack (2021), "Identifying Present Bias from the Timing of Choices", American Economic Review 111(8), S. 2594-2622.
Heidhues, P., J. Johnen und B. Kőszegi (2021), "Browsing versus Studying: a Pro-Market Case for Regulation", The Review of Economic Studies 88(2), S. 708-729.
Heidhues, P., B. Kőszegi und P. Strack (2021), "Convergence in Models of Misspecified Learning", Theoretical Economics 16(1), S. 73-99.
Blume, A., A. Franco, und P. Heidhues (2020), "Dynamic Coordination via Organizational Routines", Economic Theory 72(4), S. 1001-1047.
Altmann, S., A. Falk, P. Heidhues, R. Jayaraman und M. Teirlinck (2019), "Defaults and Donations: Evidence from a Field Experiment", Review of Economics and Statistics 101(5), S. 808-826.

Heidhues, P. und B. Kőszegi (2018), "Behavioral Industrial Organization", Handbook of Behavioral Economics, Vol. 1, S. 517-612, eds. D. Bernheim, S. DellaVigna, und D. Laibson.
Heidhues, P., B. Kőszegi, und P. Strack (2018). "Unrealistic Expectations and Misguided Learning", Econometrica 86(4), S. 1159-1214.
Heidhues, P. und B. Kőszegi (2017), "Naïvete-Based Discrimination", Quarterly Journal of Economics 132(2), S. 1019-1054.
Heidhues, P., B. Kőszegi und T. Murooka (2017), "Inferior Products and Profitable Deception", Review of Economic Studies 84(1), S. 323-356.
Dufwenberg, M., P. Heidhues, G. Kirchsteiger, F. Riedel und J. Sobel (2011), "Other-Regarding Preferences in General Equilibrium", Review of Economic Studies 78(2), S. 613–639.
Heidhues, P. und B. Kőszegi (2010), "Exploiting Naïvete about Self-Control in the Credit Market", American Economic Review 100(5), S. 2279–2303.
Heidhues, P. und B. Kőszegi (2008), "Competition and Price Variation When Consumers Are Loss Averse", American Economic Review 98(4), S. 1245–1268.

Scott Morton, F., A. Cooper, D. Dinielli, A. Fletcher, P. Heidhues, G. Kimmelman, M. O'Grady and M. Schnitzer (2024), “Judicial remedies to restore competition in the market for general search”, In Policy Discussion Paper No. 10, Digital Regulation Project, Yale Tobin Center for Economic Policy.
Scott Morton, F., J. Crémer, D. Dinielli, P. Heidhues, G. Kimmelman, G. Monti, M. O’Grady, R. Podszun, M. Schnitzer (2024), “Access pricing for app stores under the Digital Markets Act”, In Policy Discussion Paper No. 9, Digital Regulation Project, Yale Tobin Center for Economic Policy.
Fletcher, A., J. Crémer, P. Heidhues, G. Kimmelman, G. Monti, R. Podszun, M. Schnitzer, F. Scott Morton, and A. de Streel (2024), "The effective use of economics in the EU Digital Markets Act", Journal of Competition Law & Economics, 00:1-19.
Crémer, J., D. Dinielli, P. Heidhues, G. Kimmelman, G. Monti, R. Podszun, M. Schnitzer, F. Scott Morton and A. de Streel (2023), "Enforcing the Digital Markets Act: Institutional Choices, Compliance, and Antitrust", Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, 11(3), S. 315-349.
Bergemann, D., J. Crémer, D. Dinielli, C.-C. Groh, P. Heidhues, M. Schäfer, M. Schnitzer, F. Scott Morton, K. Seim und M. Sullivan (2023), "Market Design for Personal Data", Yale Journal on Regulation (Special Issue on Competition in Digital Markets), 40(3), S. 1056-1120.
Scott Morton, F., G. S. Crawford, J. Crémer, D. Dinielli, A. Fletcher, P. Heidhues, M. Schnitzer und K. Seim (2023), "Equitable Interoperability: the “super tool” of digital platform governance", Yale Journal on Regulation (Special Issue on Competition in Digital Markets), 40(3), S. 1013-1055.
Crémer, J., G. S. Crawford, D. Dinielli, A. Fletcher, P. Heidhues, M. Schnitzer, F. Scott Morton und K. Seim (2023), "Fairness and contestability in the Digital Markets Act", Yale Journal on Regulation (Special Issue on Competition in Digital Markets), 40(3), S. 973-1012.
Heidhues, P., A. Bonatti, L. E. Celis, G. S. Crawford, D. Dinielli, M. Luca, T. Salz, M. Schnitzer, F. Scott Morton, K. Seim, M. Sinkinson und J. Zhou (2023), "More competitive search through regulation", Yale Journal on Regulation (Special Issue on Competition in Digital Markets), 40(3), nd.
Fletcher, A., G. S. Crawford, J. Crémer, D. Dinielli, P. Heidhues, M. Luca, T. Salz, M. Schnitzer, F. Scott Morton, K. Seim und M. Sinkinson (2023), "Consumer protection for online markets and large digital platforms", Yale Journal on Regulation (Special Issue on Competition in Digital Markets), 40(3), S. 875-914.

(Behavioral) Industrial Organisation
Behavioral Economics
Competition and Consumer Policy
(Applied) Game Theory

Paul worked on numerous topics in Industrial Organization and Competition Policy such as input-market bargaining power, merger control, and collusion. More recently, much of his work focuses on the functioning of markets when consumers are partly driven by psychological factors – such as social preferences, loss aversion, time-inconsistency, or naivete – that the classic consumer model abstracts from. Among other things, he has written on how firms optimally price products and design credit contracts in response to consumers' psychological tendencies, and he has investigated the implications of various consumer mistakes for the functioning of markets and for consumer-protection regulation.
Paul is a member of the Academic Panel of the Competition and Markets Authority of the UK, a member of the Arbeitskreis Kartellrecht of the German Antitrust Authority (Bundeskartellamt), a Research Fellow of the CEPR Programme in Industrial Organization, a Research Fellow of the CESifo Network in Behavioral Economics, and an elected member of the Industrieökonomischer Ausschuss as well as the Theoretischer Ausschuss of the Verein für Socialpolitik. His work appeared in leading academic journals such as the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Review of Economic Studies.

Verantwortlichkeit: DICE