Prof. Dr. Klaus Heine

Klaus Heine is Professor of Law and Economics at the Erasmus School of Law in Rotterdam. He studied economics at the Philipps-University (Marburg, Germany), where he also earned a doctorate (Regulatory Competition between Corporate Laws, 2001) and Habilitation (2007) in economics. He taught and did research at the Philipps-University, the Ruhr-University (Bochum), the Free-University (Berlin) and the UMIT (Vienna). He was a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago Law School (USA) and the Law School of the University of Bergen (Norway).

His teaching covers economic policy issues (especially regulation and competition policy) and law and economics.

His main areas of research are: European economic policy (especially state aid control and federalism), regulatory competition, path dependency, theory of the firm and organizational science.