Ernst Fehr#
| Membership Number: | 2640 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 2009 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.econ.uzh.ch/en/people/faculty/fehr.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 Professor of Economics and Director of the UBS Center for Economics in Society, Department of Economics, University of Zürich
- 2005 - 2012 Director of the Priority Research Program on the “Foundations of Human Social Behavior” at the University of Zurich
- 1994 Chair for Microeconomics and Experiment Economic Research at the Faculty of Economics and Computer Science at the University of Zürich, Switzerland
- 1991 - 1994 Associate Professor at the Dept. of Economics and Economic Policy at the University of Technology in Vienna, Austria
- 1989 - 1991 Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Economics and Economic Policy at the University of Technology in Vienna, Austria
- 1991 Habilitation in Economics
- 1980 - 1986 Doctorate in Economics at the University of Vienna, Austria
- 1975 - 1980 University Education in Economics at the University of Vienna, Austria (Masters Degree)
Fields of Scholarship
- Experimental economics, including behavioral economics
- Neuroeconomics
- The meeting point between the fields of economics, sociology, neuroscience, pharmacology, and psychology
- Study of human altruism and social preferences
Honours and Awards
- 2026 International member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
- 2017 Lifelong foreign honorary member of the American Economic Association, AEA
- 2016 Honorary doctorate of the University of Graz
- 2013 Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize
"for his pioneering research on the role of fairness in markets, organisations and in individual decisions"
- 2012 Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
- 2009 Honorary doctorate in economics from the University of Lugano
- 2009 Honorary doctorate in economics from the University of Lausanne
- 2008 Marcel Benoit Prize
- 2008 Member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
- 2008 Honorary doctorate in economics from the University of Munich
- 2008 President of the European Economic Association
- 2007 Honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2005 President of the Economic Science Association
- 2004 Cogito Prize
- 2004 Honorary doctorate in economics from the University of St. Gallen
- 2000 Hicks-Tinbergen Medal
- 1999 Gossen Prize of the German Economic Association
