Ernst Fehr

Ernst Fehr (born 21 June 1956 in Hard, Vorarlberg, Austria) is an Austrian-Swiss behavioral economist and neuroeconomist. He is a Professor of Microeconomics and Experimental Economic Research at the University of Zurich (UZH), teaching there since 1994, and Director of the UBS Center for Economics in Society since 2012. He previously served as Chairman of the Department of Economics at the University of Zurich from 2010 to 2015, was an Affiliated Faculty Member of the Department of Economics at MIT from 2003 to 2011, and a Global Distinguished Professor in Economics at New York University from 2011 to 2020. His research covers the areas of the evolution of human cooperation and sociality, in particular fairness, reciprocity and bounded rationality.