Sven Heim

I am an Associate Professor of Economics at the Center for Industrial Economics (CERNA) at Mines Paris – PSL. I am also a Research Associate at ZEW Mannheim, a Research Member at the Paris Center for Law and Economics (CRED) at the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas, and a Research Affiliate at both the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and WU Vienna.

My research sits at the intersection of industrial organization, competition policy, and energy economics. A central strand of my work examines how minority ownership links between competing firms shape their incentives to compete, innovate, and collude. I also study how information frictions and consumer search drive pricing strategies and consumer behavior, as well as the effectiveness of state aid and EU competition policy.

In addition, I work on the economics of the energy transition and the design of electricity markets. My work on these topics has been published in leading academic journals, including the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, and the European Economic Review.

I advise institutions such as the European Commission and the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy, and serve as a court expert in cartel cases.