Ernst Fehr
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| Born |
June 21, 1956 Hard, Austria |
| Nationality | Austria |
| Institution | University of Zürich |
| Field | Behavioral economics |
| Alma mater | University of Vienna |
| Influenced | Armin Falk |
| Awards |
Gossen Prize (1999), Marcel Benoist Prize (2008) |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Ernst Fehr (born June 21, 1956 in Hard, Austria) is an Austrian behavioral economist and neuroeconomist and a Professor of Microeconomics and Experimental Economic Research, as well as the vice chairman of the Department of Economics at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. His research covers the areas of the evolution of human cooperation and sociality, in particular fairness, reciprocity and bounded rationality.
He is also well known for his important contributions to the new field of neuroeconomics, as well as to behavioral economics, behavioral finance and experimental economics. According to IDEAS/REPEC, he is the second-most influential German-speaking economist, and is ranked at 99th globally.
In 2010 Ernst Fehr founded, together with his brother, Gerhard Fehr, FehrAdvice & Partners, the first globally operating consultancy firm completely dedicated to behavioral economics.
2016 Fehr was ranked as the most influential economist in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
In 2008, Fehr won the Marcel-Benoist of 100,000 Swiss francs. In 2011, he was awarded the Vorarlberg Science Prize (€10,000); in 2012, he received the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art and on 9 April 2013 he was awarded the Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize "for his pioneering research on the role of fairness in markets, organisations and in individual decisions".
Fehr is an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences and visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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