Ernst Fehr

Ernst Fehr

University of Zürich

Ernst Fehr has been Professor of Microeconomics and Experimental Economics at the University of Zürich since 1994. He served as director of the Institute for Empirical Research in Economics and chairman of the Department of Economics. He currently serves as director of the UBS International Center of Economics in Society. He has conducted extensive research on the impact of social preferences on competition, cooperation and on the psychological foundations of incentives.