Rate My Professor Steffen Hoernig

Steffen Hoernig is Professor of Economics at Nova School of Business and Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, within the Business & Economics faculty. He earned his PhD in Economics from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy in 2000, Agregação in Economics from Nova SBE in 2007, Master in Applied Mathematical Sciences from the University of Georgia, Athens, USA in 1993, and Diplomkaufmann (Management degree) from Universität Bielefeld, Germany in 1995. Currently serving as Academic Director of the Masters in Economics programme and previously as Coordinator of the Nova SBE Research Unit, he contributes significantly to graduate education and institutional research leadership.

Hoernig's research specializes in Industrial Organization, with particular emphasis on competition in and regulation of electronic communications markets and the digital economy. He has published in prestigious journals such as the RAND Journal of Economics, Economic Theory, Journal of Industrial Economics, and International Journal of Industrial Organization. Key publications include “I don't care about cookies!” data disclosure and time-inconsistent users in Information Economics and Policy (2024), Co-investment, uncertainty, and opportunism: ex-Ante and ex-Post remedies in Information Economics and Policy (2021), Zero-rating and network effects in Economics Letters (2020), and Fiber investment and access under uncertainty: long-term contracts, risk premia, and access options in Journal of Regulatory Economics (2020). He is co-editor of the Portuguese Economic Journal and associate editor of Information Economics and Policy and Review of Economics. Hoernig regularly consults for regulators, courts, international companies, think tanks, and the European Commission on telecommunications regulation and network competition.