Sven Heim

Journal Publications (peer-reviewed)

Support for Renewable Energy: The Case of Wind Power

with Robert Germeshausen and Ulrich Wagner · Journal of Public Economics, 2025

Incumbency Advantages: Price Dispersion, Price Discrimination and Consumer Search at Online Platforms

with Klaus Gugler, Maarten Janssen and Mario Liebensteiner · Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 2023

Measuring the effects of COVID-19-related night curfews: Empirical evidence from Germany

with Sammy de Haas and Georg Götz · Nature Scientific Reports, 2022

The Anticompetitive Effects of Minority Share Acquisitions: Evidence from the Introduction of National Leniency Programs

with Kai Hüschelrath, Ulrich Laitenberger and Yossi Spiegel · American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2022

Asymmetric Cost Pass-Through and Consumer Search: Empirical Evidence from Online Platforms

Quantitative Marketing and Economics, 2021

Do Pay-As-Bid Auctions Favor Collusion? Evidence from the German Market for Reserve Power

with Georg Götz · Energy Policy, 2021

Unbundling, Regulation and Pricing: Evidence from Electricity Distribution

with Bastian Krieger and Mario Liebensteiner · The Energy Journal, 2021

Electricity Market Integration and the Impact of Unilateral Policy Reforms

with Luigi Grossi, Kai Hüschelrath and Michael Waterson · Oxford Economic Papers, 2018

The Impact of State Aid on the Survival and Financial Viability of Aided Firms

with Kai Hüschelrath, Philipp Schmidt-Dengler and Maurizio Strazzeri · European Economic Review, 2017

The Impact of the German Response to the Fukushima Earthquake

with Luigi Grossi and Mike Waterson · Energy Economics, 2017

Strategic Capacity Withholding Through Failures in the German-Austrian Electricity Market

with Julian Bergler and Kai Hüschelrath · Energy Policy, 2017

Deregulation, Competition, and Consolidation: The Case of the German Interurban Bus Industry

with Niklas Dürr and Kai Hüschelrath · Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, 2016

The Duration of the EC Merger Control Process: Determinants and the Impact of the 2004 Merger Regulation Reform

with Kai Hüschelrath and Ulrich Laitenberger · International Journal of the Economics of Business, 2016

Capacity payments to secure electricity supply? On the future of Germany's power market design

with Paul Lehmann, Robert Brandt, Erik Gawel, Klaas Korte, Andreas Löschel, Philipp Massier, Matthias Reeg, Dominik Schober and Sandra Wassermann · Energy, Sustainability and Society, 2015

Working Papers and Work in Progress

The Gas Price Brake Increases Gas Prices: Empirical Evidence

with Lukas Brunninger, Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt and Klaus Gugler · R&R at International Journal of Industrial Organization

Spin City: Positive and Negative Local Externalities of Wind Turbines

with Mario Liebensteiner and Felix Michelet · R&R at Energy Economics

Horizontal Minority Shareholding Acquisitions and Innovation

with Emilie Feyler, Yossi Spiegel and Florian Szuecs · CEPR Discussion Paper

State Aid, Productivity and Competition

with Dennis Rickert and Joel Stiebale

Fuel Switching and Renewable Energy

with Mario Liebensteiner and Felix Michelet

Partial Vertical Ownership

with Nadav Levy, Yossi Spiegel and Ilona Tsanko

The Effect of High-Speed Internet on Firm Entry and Exit

with Johannes Bersch, Niklas Dürr and Simona Wagner

Consumer Search and Market Concentration

Book Chapters

Innover dans la crise sanitaire

Presses des Mines, 2022

Ex-post Economic Evaluation of Competition Policy: The EU Experience

Edited by the European Commission · Wolters Kluwer, Brussels, 311–344, 2020

The European Dimension of Germany's Energy Transition – Opportunities and Conflicts

Springer, 97–122, 2019

Bewertungskriterien von Fördersystemen aus ökonomischer Sicht

with Dominik Schober and Oliver Woll · in: Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen für EE-Projekte, Vol. II, BWV, 2017

Ökonomische Aspekte von Stromleitungsnetzen

with Dominik Schober and Georg Götz · in: Stromleitungsnetze, Oldenbourg, München, 287–330, 2014

Other Publications (in German)

Ein Regelenergiemarkt-Plus als Kapazitätsmechanismus

et – Energiewirtschaftliche Tagesfragen, 2015

Braucht Deutschland jetzt Kapazitätszahlungen für eine gesicherte Stromversorgung?

with Paul Lehmann, Robert Brandt, Erik Gawel et al. · et – Energiewirtschaftliche Tagesfragen, 2015

Kapazitätsmechanismen als Rettungsschirm der Energiewende?

with Matthias Reeg, Robert Brandt, Erik Gawel et al. · Helmholtz-Allianz ENERGY-TRANS Discussion Paper, 2015