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.

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

Publications (see also )


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 )


Caleb M. Koch and Heinrich H. Nax

Groundwater use decisions are strategic complements

Draft available


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

Draft available


Heinrich H. Nax and Jonathan Newton

Deep and Shallow Thinking in the Long Run

Draft available


Zurich Replication Group

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

Being revised

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)

Presenting work on Dynamic Matching at LSE Department of Mathematics on 20.02.2020

Talk on "<Disruptive> market algorithms, humans, and society" at the Yale Computation and Society Initiative on November 22, 2019

Talk on “A theorist's perspective on dictator games” at the Cowles Economics Theory Reading Group on October 24, 2019

Talk on “Game Theory and Human Interactions” at The Behavioral Studies Colloquium on 17.9.2019

Talk on “Single-item economies: recent experimental findings” at Chapman University (US) on 8.5.2019

On June 3, 2019, talk on “Rational Altruism?” at the 4th Swiss Theory Day, hosted by Georg Nöldeke at the University of Basel.

Talk on "Dynamic two-sided markets" at the 2019 Game Theory Festival at Stony Brook

Talk on “Behavioral foundations and the theory of learning in games” at the Frankfurt School on 17.4.2019

Talk on “Single-item economies: recent experimental findings” at ESI Chapman University on 8.5.2019

Nax gives a talk on “Noise and learning: An experimental perspective” at the Learning, Games and Networks Seminar at Nuffield College, University of Oxford (UK) on 12.02.2019.

Nax gives a talk at the annual Rational Choice Sociology meetings on San Servolo (IT) on 13.11.2018

Nax gives a talk at “Online experiments – Quick? Cheap? Valid?” conference on Online Experimental Research at the University of Zurich on 07.11.2018

Nax gives a talk at the 29th International Conference on Game Theory at Stony Brook University (US) on 16.07.2018

Nax is invited to give an overview over his work in Game Theory at the Management Department of Ca’Foscari University in Venice on 11.6.2018

Nax gives a lecture on “Dynamics in Buyer-Seller Markets: Theory and Experimental Evidence” at the Séminaire Décision, Interaction et Marchés at Paris Dauphine University on 29.5.2018

Nax gives a lecture on “Dynamics in Buyer-Seller Markets: Theory and Experimental Evidence” at the Applied Microeconomics and Organization Seminar of Goethe University and Frankfurt School on 15.5.2018

Nax gives a talk at the Arne Ryde conference on Learning, Evolution, and Games at Lund, Sweden on 05.06.2018

Nax gives a lecture on 'Dynamics in Buyer-Seller Markets: Theory and Lab Experiments' at the department of economics at UOC (GR) on 2.5.2018

Nax gives a lecture on Market Dynamics: Evidence from Lab Experiments at the DPG spring meetings in Berlin on 13.03.2018

Nax gives a lecture at UZH (Soziologisches Institut) on 12.12.2017: "Dynamics and learning in social dilemmas"

Koch and Nax present their work on groundwater at the KAUST-NSF Research Conference on Environmental Monitoring (SA) on 06-08.11.2017

Nax gives a talk at the workshop on Social Norms in Multi-Ethnic Societies at the University of Firenze (IT) on 03.11.2017

Nax gives a talk at the Computation, Nature and Society Think Tank at EPFL (CH) on 26.09.2017

Nax gives a talk at Kreyon Conference in Rome (IT) on 06.09.2017

Nax speaks at the GfeW Annual Conference in Kassel (DE) on 18.09.2017

Nax speaks at the VfS Annual Conference "Alternative Architectures for Money and Banking" at the University of Vienna (AT) on 04.09.2017

Duca, Koch, Nax and Pradelski give talks at the 28th International Conference on Game Theory at Stony Brook (NY, USA) from 17 to 21.07.2017

Nax and Pradelski speak at Stony Brook University's Workshop on Adaptive Learning in New York (USA) from 14 to 16.07.2017

Heinrich Nax gives a talk at Lund University (SWE) on 15.05.2017

Nax delivers an introductory lecture on learning in strategic interactions at ETH Zurich on 12.04.2017

Heinrich Nax presents his work on welfare properties of meritocratic public goods mechanisms at the Philosophy, Politics and Economics Society Meeting in New Orleans (US) on 18.03.2017

Heinrich Nax and Bary Pradelski present their work at the 4th Day on Computational Game Theory at ETH Zurich on 17.02.2017

Teaching/Projects/Other Activities

Organizer of the John von Neumann Zurich Lectures at ETH Zurich

Co-supervision (PhD theses): 
Co-supervision (MSc theses): Simon Jantschgi, Karan Khazanchi






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