Prof. Dr. Andreas Hefti

Projects

• Gamification: A browser-based Tool for Experiments / Project leader / completed
• Energy Policy Analysis Group / SCCER CREST / Team member / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Hefti, A., Heinke, S. and Schneider, F. (2025) 'Mental capabilities, heterogeneous trading behaviour and performance in an experimental asset market', The Economic Journal, 135(671), pp. 2161–2191. doi: 10.1093/ej/ueaf003.
• Hefti, A., Liu, S. and Schmutzler, A. (2022) 'Preferences, confusion and competition', The Economic Journal, 132(645), pp. 1852–1881. doi: 10.1093/ej/ueac009.
• Hefti, A. and Liu, S. (2020) 'Targeted information and limited attention', The RAND Journal of Economics, 51(2), pp. 402–420. doi: 10.1111/1756-2171.12319.
• Hefti, A. and Shen, P. (2019) 'Supply function competition with asymmetric costs : theory and experiment', Economics Letters, 178, pp. 24–27. doi: 10.1016/j.econlet.2019.02.008.
• Kaufmann, C. et al. (2018) 'Does personalized information improve health plan choices when individuals are distracted?', Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 149, pp. 197–214. doi: 10.1016/j.jebo.2018.03.013.
• Hefti, A. (2018) 'Limited attention, competition and welfare', Journal of Economic Theory, 178, pp. 318–359. doi: 10.1016/j.jet.2018.09.012.
• Hefti, A. (2017) 'Equilibria in symmetric games : theory and applications', Theoretical Economics, 12(3), pp. 979–1002. doi: 10.3982/TE2151.
• Hefti, A. (2016) 'On the relationship between uniqueness and stability in sum-aggregative, symmetric and general differentiable games', Mathematical Social Sciences, 80, pp. 83–96. doi: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2016.02.008.
• Hefti, A. (2016) 'Symmetric stability in symmetric games', Theoretical Economics Letters, 6(3), pp. 488–493. doi: 10.4236/tel.2016.63056.
• Hefti, A. (2015) 'A differentiable characterization of local contractions on Banach spaces', Fixed Point Theory and Applications, 2015(106), pp. 1–5. doi: 10.1186/s13663-015-0349-7.
• Hefti, A. and Heinke, S. (2015) 'On the economics of superabundant information and scarce attention', Oeconomia, 5(1), pp. 37–76. doi: 10.4000/oeconomia.1104.
• Dietl, H. et al. (2015) 'Spillovers in sports leagues with promotion and relegation', Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 62(1), pp. 59–74. doi: 10.1111/sjpe.12060.

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Hefti, A. et al. (2025) 'Rational inattention meets cognitive activation : experimental evidence', in 40th EEA Congress, Bordeaux, France, 25-28 August 2025.
• Hefti, A. and Shen, P. (2025) 'Predicting the distribution of contest success under the illusion of proportionality', in The Lisbon Meetings in Game Theory and Applications #14, Lisbon, Portugal, 18-20 June 2025.
• Hefti, A. and Lareida, J. (2020) 'Competitive attention, superstars and the long tail', in EEA 2020 : 35th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, Online, 24-28 August 2020.
• Hefti, A. (2009) 'Revising the Salop-equilibrium in the case of attention restricted consumers', in 24th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association and the 64th European Meeting of the Econometric Society (EEA-ESEM 09), Barcelona, Spain 23-27 August 2009, pp. 1–51.

Other publications

• Hefti, A. and Shen, P. (2025) Predicting the distribution of contest success under the illusion of proportionality. University of Zurich. doi: 10.5167/uzh-276543.
• Hefti, A. (2022) A note on symmetric random vectors with an application to discrete choice. Zurich: University of Zurich. doi: 10.5167/uzh-221673.
• Abegg, A. et al. (2019) Faires Verfahren beim Zugang zu geschlossenen Märkten des Bundes : Studie im Auftrag des Staatssekretariats für Wirtschaft. Staatssekretariat für Wirtschaft.
• Hefti, A. and Liu, S. (2016) Targeted information and limited attention. Zürich: Universität Zürich. doi: 10.5167/uzh-124916.
• Hefti, A., Heinke, S. and Schneider, F. (2016) Mental capabilities, trading behaviour, and asset bubbles : theory and experiments. Zürich: Universität Zürich. doi: 10.5167/uzh-125847.
• Hefti, A. (2016) Distributional comparative statics with heterogeneous agents. Zurich: University of Zurich. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.2874899.
• Hefti, A. (2011) Attention competition. Zurich: University of Zurich. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.1997175.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

Hefti, A., Schmutzler, A. and Liu, S. (2018) 'Confusion, polarization and competition', in 45th Annual Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics, Athen, Greece, 31 August - 2 September 2018.

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