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– Director of the UBS International Center of Economics in Society at the Univer-sity of Zurich
- 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
- 2013 the Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize
- 2009 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2009 Honorary doctorate in economics from the University of Lugano
- 2009 Honorary doctorate in economics from the University of Lausanne
- 2008 the Marcel Benoit Prize
- 2008 Honorary doctorate in economics from the University of Munich
- 2008 President of the European Economic Association
- 2005 President of the Economic Science Association
- 2004 the Cogito Prize
- 2004 Honorary doctorate in economics from the University of St. Gallen
- 2000 the Hicks-Tinbergen Medal
- 1999 the Gossen Prize of the German Economic Association
