Ernst Fehr
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University of ZurichProf. Ernst Fehr
Department of Economics
Blümlisalpstrasse 10
CH-8006 Zurich
Office: BLU-213
Phone: +41 44 634 37 01
Email: ernst.fehr@econ.uzh.ch
- Chairman of the Department of Economics
- Director of the UBS International Center of Economics in Society at the University of Zurich
- Director of the University Research Priority Program on the Foundations of Human Social Behavior
- Professor Microeconomics and Experimental Economic Research
- Global Distinguished Professor of Economics at New York University
- Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science APS
- John Kenneth Galbraith Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences
- Member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina
- Fellow of the Econometric Society
- Member of the Council of the Econometric Society, 2012 - 2014
- CEPR Fellow
- CESifo Fellow
- IZA Fellow
- Past President of the Economic Science Association
The Economic Science Association is a professional organization devoted to experimental economics. Their members treat economics as an observational science, using controlled experiments to learn about economic behavior. - Past president of the European Economic Association
- Chairman of the Board and Partner of Fehradvice & Partners
- Recipient of the Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize in 2013
- Recipient of the Marcel Benoist Prize in 2008
Link to Ernst Fehr's publications on Google Scholar
New publications
![]() | Linking Brain Structure and Activation in Temporoparietal Junction to Explain the Neurobiolgy of Human Altruism Neuron 75, 2012, 73-79 (with Y. Morishima, D. Schunk, A. Bruhin, and C.C. Ruff) Press releases
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![]() | The Lure of Authority: Motivation and Incentive Effects of Power Forthcoming in the American Economic Review (with H. Herz and T. Willkening)
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![]() | Acute Stress Increases Prosocial Behavior in Humans
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![]() | Screening, Competion, and Job Design: Economic Origins of Good Jobs
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![]() | Dorsolateral and ventromedial prefrontal cortex orchestrate normative choice
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Contracts as Reference Points – Experimental Evidence
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