dr. Jens Prüfer

Bio

Jens Prüfer is Associate Professor of Economics at Tilburg University and a member of the Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC). His research focuses on institutional and organizational questions, applying economic methodology to a broad set of disciplines, including law, management, political science, history, religious studies, and computer science. He studied Economics and Chinese studies in Tübingen (Germany) and Singapore and holds a PhD in Economics from Goethe University Frankfurt.

Full CV is here.

Expertise

• Institutional Economics, in particular the study of economic governance institutions, which help to support cooperation/honest trade with and without the law (public and private ordering).
• Organizational Economics, in particular the economics of non-firm organizations such as nonprofits, cooperatives, social networks, clubs, associations or foundations. Why do these organizations exist and (how) do they behave differently in competitive markets?
• Law & Economics, in particular antitrust policy and ‘order without law’.
• Industrial Organization, in particular questions dealing with competition policy and regulation and the dependence of those issues on the governance structure of competitors.
• Political Economics, in particular the role of the media for political outcomes both in democracies and in autocracies.
• Economics of Innovation, in particular the effects of datafication/big data on markets, polities, societies, and jurisdictions.

Courses

• Electives Master
• Career Development Economics
• Organizational Economics (CentER)

Highlights

Key Publications:  

• Dengler, Sebastian and Jens Prüfer (2021), “Consumers’ Privacy Choices in the Era of Big Data,” Games and Economic Behavior, 130: 499–520.

• Prüfer, Jens and Christoph Schottmüller (2021), “Competing with Big Data,” Journal of Industrial Economics, 69: 967-1008.

• Filistrucchi, Lapo and Jens Prüfer (2019), “Faithful Strategies: How Religion Shapes Nonprofit Management,” Management Science, 65(1), 188-208. Online Appendix.

• Prüfer, Jens (2016), “Business Associations and Private Ordering,” Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 32(2), 306-358.

• Masten, Scott E. and Jens Prüfer (2014), “On the Evolution of Collective Enforcement Institutions: Communities and Courts,” Journal of Legal Studies, 43(2), 359-400.

Recent publications

1. Consumers’ privacy choices in the era of big data

   Dengler, S., & Prüfer, J. (2021). Consumers’ privacy choices in the era of big data. Games and Economic Behavior, 130, 499-520.

2. Governance of data sharing - A law & economics proposal

   Graef, I., & Prüfer, J. (2021). Governance of data sharing: A law & economics proposal. Research Policy: A Journal devoted to Research Policy, Research Management and Planning, 50(9), [104330].

3. Governance of Data Sharing - a Law & Economics Proposal

   Graef, I., & Prüfer, J. (2021). Governance of Data Sharing: a Law & Economics Proposal. (CentER Discussion Paper; Vol. 2021-004). CentER, Center for Economic Research.

4. Governance of Data Sharing - A Law & Economics Proposal

   Graef, I., & Prüfer, J. (2021). Governance of Data Sharing: A Law & Economics Proposal. (TILEC Discussion Paper; Vol. 2021-001). TILEC.

5. Competing with big data

   Prüfer, J., & Schottmuller, C. (2021). Competing with big data. Journal of Industrial Economics, 69(4), 967-1008.