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

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Hefti, A., Shen, P., Müller, T., & Fehr, E. (2025, August 25). Rational inattention meets cognitive activation : experimental evidence. 40th EEA Congress, Bordeaux, France, 25-28 August 2025.
• Hefti, A., & Shen, P. (2025, June 19). Predicting the distribution of contest success under the illusion of proportionality. The Lisbon Meetings in Game Theory and Applications #14, Lisbon, Portugal, 18-20 June 2025.
• Hefti, A., & Lareida, J. (2020, August). Competitive attention, superstars and the long tail. 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 [Conference paper]. 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, 1–51.

Other publications

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

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

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

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