Rate My Professor Paul Heidhues

Heidhues specializes in behavioral industrial organization, competition policy, behavioral economics, and applied game theory. His research investigates market functioning amid consumer psychological factors like loss aversion, time-inconsistency, naivete, and social preferences. He examines firm strategies in pricing, credit contracts, innovation, and data collection, alongside implications for consumer protection regulation, price discrimination, privacy, and welfare. Notable publications include 'Exploiting Naivete about Self-Control in the Credit Market' (American Economic Review, 2010, with Botond Kőszegi), 'Unrealistic Expectations and Misguided Learning' (Econometrica, 2018, with Botond Kőszegi and Philipp Strack), 'Naivete-Based Discrimination' (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2017, with Botond Kőszegi), 'Steering Fallible Consumers' (Economic Journal, 2023, with Martin Köster and Botond Kőszegi), and 'Browsing versus Studying: A Pro-Market Case for Regulation' (Review of Economic Studies, 2021, with Johannes Johnen and Botond Kőszegi). Heidhues has received honors including CEPR Research Fellow in Industrial Organization, CESifo Fellow in Behavioral Economics, membership in the European Advisory Group on Competition Policy (2020-2024), UK Competition and Markets Authority Academic Panel (2016-2020), and the 2023 Jerry S. Cohen Memorial Fund Writing Award. He has held editorial roles such as Associate Editor for the Journal of Industrial Economics (2005-2010) and serves on committees like the Executive Committee of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE).