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Dr Timo Heinrich
Biography
Timo is an Assistant Professor in Economics. Before joining Durham University Business School in 2017 he was a research group leader at the University of Duisburg-Essen as well as a visiting scholar at IE Business School, St. John’s University, UT Dallas and Harvard Medical School.
Timo received a Diplom in Information Systems from the University of Magdeburg and a PhD in Economics from the University of Duisburg-Essen. In his research Timo uses econometric methods as well as lab and field experiments. He focuses on individual decision making, strategic interaction and market behaviour. For example, he studies how communication and reputation facilitate trade in markets with moral hazard or how higher-order risk preferences drive the evaluation of complex risks and the resulting decisions. His work has appeared in Production and Operations Management and the European Economic Review, among others.
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Timo is an Assistant Professor in Economics. Before joining Durham University Business School in 2017 he was a research group leader at the University of Duisburg-Essen as well as a visiting scholar at IE Business School, St. John’s University, UT Dallas and Harvard Medical School.
Research Groups
Business School
Research Interests
- Applied Microeconomics and Market Design
- Experimental and Behavioural Economics
- Economic Policy and Innovation
Publications
- 1: Rosenthal-von der Pütten, A. M., Hastall, M. R., Köcher, S., Meske, C., Heinrich, T., Labrenz, F. & Ocklenburg, S. (2019). “Likes” as social rewards: Their role in online social comparison and decisions to like other people's selfies. Computers in Human Behavior 92: 76.
- 2: Brosig-Koch, J. & Heinrich, T. (2018). The role of communication content and reputation in the choice of transaction partners: A study based on field and laboratory data. Games and Economic Behavior 112: 49-66.
- 3: Heinrich, T. & Mayrhofer, T. (2018). Higher-order risk preferences in social settings. Experimental Economics 21(2): 434-456.
- 4: Brosig-Koch, J., Heinrich, T. & Helbach, C. (2015). Exploring the capability to reason backwards: An experimental study with children, adolescents, and young adults. European Economic Review 74: 286-302.
- 5: Brosig-Koch, J., Heinrich, T. & Helbach, C. (2014). Does truth win when teams reason strategically?. Economics Letters 123(1): 86-89.
- Brosig-Koch, J. & Heinrich, T. (2014). Reputation and mechanism choice in procurement auctions: An experiment. Production and Operations Management 23(2): 210-220.
- Heinrich, T. & Weimann, J. (2013). A note on reciprocity and modified dictator games. Economics Letters 121(2): 202-205.
- Heinrich, T. (2012). Communication and reputation in procurement auctions – Some empirical evidence. Economics Letters 114(2): 164-167.
- Brosig, J., Heinrich, T., Riechmann, T., Schöb, R. & Weimann, J. (2010). Laying off or not? The influence of framing and economics education. International Review of Economics Education 9(1): 44-55.