About Me

Behavioral game theorist, educated in economics and philosophy (logic & scientific method). Assistant Professor at UZH and Privatdozent at ETH. Previously at London School of Economics, Oxford, École normale sup (Paris School of Economics), Ca' Foscari, Johns Hopkins and Yale (Cowles Foundation), my research interests include (Behavioral) Market Design and Learning in Games applied to markets and collective goods.

My work has been applied in the industry, for example, at Golden Set Analytics (tennis strategy consultancy), Rally (trading platform for collectible assets), and Orderfox (matching platform for industrial manufacturing). I enjoy fun real-world stuff, for free even, so please be in touch!

Heinrich H. Nax
heinrich.nax{at}uzh.ch

[The picture above, by an unknown photographer, shows Johannes Itten doing some physical exercises with his students during class. I don't know whether Johannes was particularly good at physical exercises, but the photo looks fun, and his color star is incredible.]

Publications (see also )


Heinrich H. Nax and Jonathan Newton

Deep and Shallow Thinking in the Long Run

Theoretical Economics, 2022.

Ivo Baur and Heinrich H. Nax

Measures against the abandonment of common property summer pastures: experimental evidence from joint appropriation–provision games

Ecology and Society, 2021.

Marko Gosak, Moritz Kraemer, Heinrich H. Nax, Matjaž Perc and Bary S.R. Pradelski

Endogenous social distancing and its underappreciated impact on the epidemic curve

Nature Scientific Reports, 2021.

Ennio Bilancini, Leonardo Boncinelli and Heinrich H. Nax

What noise matters? Experimental evidence for stochastic deviations in social norms

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2020.

Aidas Masiliunas and Heinrich H. Nax

Framing and Repeated Competition

Games and Economic Behavior, 2020.

Panayotis Mertikopoulos, Heinrich H. Nax and Bary S. R. Pradelski

Quick or cheap? Breaking points in dynamic markets

EC '20: Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, 2020

Philip Grech and Heinrich H. Nax

Rational Altruism? On Preference Estimation and Dictator Game Experiments

Games and Economic Behavior, 2019.

Bary S.R. Pradelski and Heinrich H. Nax

Market sentiments and convergence dynamics in decentralized assignment economies

International Journal of Game Theory, 2019.

Ivo Baur and Heinrich H. Nax

Adapting Governance Incentives to Avoid Common Pool Resource Underuse: The Case of Swiss Summer Pastures

Sustainability, 2019.

Heinrich H. Nax and Jonathan Newton

Risk Attitudes and Risk Dominance in the Long Run

Games and Economic Behavior, 2019.

Stefano Duca and Heinrich H. Nax

Groups and scores: the decline of cooperation

Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 2018.

Heinrich H. Nax, Stefano Balietti, Ryan O. Murphy and Dirk Helbing

Adding noise to the institution: An experimental welfare investigation of the contribution-based grouping mechanism

Social Choice and Welfare, 2018.

Heinrich H. Nax

Uncoupled aspiration adaptation dynamics into the core

German Economic Review, 2018.

Heinrich H. Nax, Ryan O. Murphy, Stefano Duca and Dirk Helbing

Contribution-Based Grouping under Noise

Games, 2017.

Stefano Duca, Dirk Helbing and Heinrich H. Nax

Assortative Matching with Inequality in Voluntary Contribution Games

Computational Economics, 2017.

Heinrich H. Nax, Ryan O. Murphy and Dirk Helbing

Nash Dynamics, Meritocratic Matching, and Cooperation

in: Social dilemmas, institutions, and the evolution of cooperation, Edited by Ben Jann and Wojtek Przepiorka, 2017.

Matthias Leiss and Heinrich H. Nax

Option-Implied Objective Measures of Market Risk with Leverage

in: International Congress on Actuarial Science and Quantitative Finance, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics, 2016.

Heinrich H. Nax, Maxwell N. Burton-Chellew, Stuart A. West and H. Peyton Young

Learning in a black box

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016.

Heinrich H. Nax

The Logic of Collective Rating

Frontiers in Physics, 2016.

Heinrich H. Nax and Alexandros Rigos

Assortativity evolving from social dilemmas

Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2016.

Michael Mäs and Heinrich H. Nax

A behavioral study of "noise" in coordination games

Journal of Economic Theory, 2016.

Heinrich H. Nax and Bary S.R. Pradelski

Core Stability and Core Selection in a Decentralized Labor Matching Market

Games, 2016.

Heinrich H. Nax and Bary S.R. Pradelski

Evolutionary dynamics and equitable core selection in assignment games

International Journal of Game Theory, 2015.

Heinrich H. Nax, Ryan O. Murphy and Kurt A. Ackermann

Interactive preferences

Economics Letters, 2015.

Heinrich H. Nax, Matjaž Perc, Attila Szolnoki and Dirk Helbing

Stability of cooperation under image scoring in group interactions

Nature Scientific Reports, 2015.

Matthias Leiss, Heinrich H. Nax and Didier Sornette

Super-Exponential Growth Expectations and the Global Financial Crisis

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2015.

Maxwell N. Burton-Chellew, Heinrich H. Nax and Stuart A. West

Payoff-based learning explains the decline in cooperation in public goods games

Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological Sciences, 2015.

Heinrich H. Nax and Matjaž Perc

Directional learning and the provisioning of public goods

Nature Scientific Reports, 2015.

Heinrich H. Nax

Equity dynamics in bargaining without information exchange

Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2015.

Heinrich H. Nax

A Note on the Core of TU-cooperative Games with Multiple Membership Externalities

Games, 2014.

Heinrich H. Nax, Bary S.R. Pradelski and H.Peyton Young

Decentralized dynamics to optimal and stable states in the assignment game

in: IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Proceedings, 2013.

Heinrich H. Nax

Modeling Hostage-Taking: On Reputation and Strategic Rationality of Terrorists

Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 2008.

Work in progress(see also )


Simon Jantschgi, Heinrich H. Nax, Bary S.R. Pradelski and Marek Pycia

Fees, Incentives, and Efficiency in Large Double Auctions

Accepted at EC'22


Caleb M. Koch and Heinrich H. Nax

Revealed preferences of groundwater usage: decisions as strategic complements, not substitutes

Draft available


Barbara Ikica, Simon Jantschgi, Heinrich H. Nax, Diego Nunez Duran and Bary S.R. Pradelski

Competitive Market Behavior: Convergence and Asymmetry in the Experimental Double Auction

Under revision


Zurich Replication Group

Preference comparisons (w.r.t. gender, age and social status) using experimental dictator games: criticisms and replications

Under revision

Talk on "Confounds in Measuring Preferences" at the 2021 Australasian Meeting of the Econometric Society (July 7-9, 2021)

Talk on "Fees, Incentives, and Efficiency in Large Double Auctions" at the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC'22) at the University of Colorado Boulder, July 11-15, 2022.

Talk on "Learning in Games: New Results" at the Economic Theory Seminar at Oxford on May 20, 2022.

Talk on "Morgan's Canon or What's the point of <Black Box> experiments?" at the LSE Workshop "What is the game?" on April 5-6, 2022

Talk on "Learning in Games: New Results" at the Behaviour, Economics, and Evolution (BEE) Lecture Series at UNIL on April 7th, 2022.

Talk on "Market Behavior under Minimal Information" at the 2nd ZI Conference, October 21-23, 2021.

Talk on "Double auctions a la Vernon Smith: a large-scale reproduction" at the German Experimental Economics Association Meeting 2021, September 22-24, 2021.

Talk on "Behavioral evidence from market experiments" in the NCCR Automation Seminar Series, November 15, 2021.

Talk on "What <noise> matters?" at Bar-Ilan's Game and Economic Theory Seminar, October 26, 2021.

Talk on "Dictator Games and Social Preference Estimation" at the University of Trento, October 28, 2021.

Talk on "Best reply dynamics and "noise" models in coordination games" at the Workshop on Behavioural Game Theory 2021, July 15-16, 2021.

Talk on "Deep and shallow thinking in the long run" (joint work with Jonny Newton) at the 2021 Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society (June 25-27, 2021)

Talk on "Dictator Games" at the 2021 Australasian Meeting of the Econometric Society (July 7-9, 2021)

Talk on “Information, Feedback and Pricing Rule Effects in the Continuous Double Auction: an Experimental Perspective” at the 1st EUI workshop on "Pricing Technologies and their Economic and Social Consequences" (March 25-26, 2021)

Talk on "Dynamics in Markets" at the 1st Conference on Zero/Minimal Intelligence Agents (October 22-24, 2020)

Talk on "Revealed Preferences for Altruism" at the 2020 Econometric Society World Congress (August 17, 2020)

Talk on "Dynamic Matching" at LSE Department of Mathematics on 20.02.2020

Teaching/Projects/Other Activities


Editorial Work: Games (Section Editor-in-Chief), Journal of Mathematical Sociology (Co-Editor)

Ethics Review Board: CESS, DeSciL ETH Zurich

Regular reviewer at (very many) journals...

Classroom Games: More information

Peer Review Online: More information

Game Theory Online: More information



Networks

Zurich Market Design
The Replication Network
DVSN.app
Visiting Professor
Open Science
Shared Intentions
Other Interests