Florian Heine

Dr. Florian Heine is an Assistant Professor at the School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and a candidate fellow at the Ethics, Governance and Society program at Tinbergen Institute. He holds a PhD from Maastricht University (2017). His research focuses on experimental economics, behavioral economics, and public management, particularly examining how institutions shape cooperative or competitive decisions in uncertain environments with limited coordination channels. He investigates psychological mechanisms like parochial altruism and social identity to explain modern phenomena such as third-party punishment and pro-social behavior.

His recent work explores moral foundations in public service motivation, vaccine hesitancy reduction strategies, and intergroup conflict dynamics through experimental methodologies. He teaches courses on ethics and academic skills. His datasets, available via DANS, include studies on volunteer's dilemma experiments and team contest dynamics.