CESifo Research Network Fellow

Ernst Fehr

Director
University of Zurich
Institute for Empirical Research in Economics
Blümlisalpstr. 10, 8006, Zürich, Switzerland

Affiliated Research Network Area

Behavioral Economics

Fields of Interest

  • Microeconomics
  • Mathematical and Quantative Methods

CESifo Working Papers

The Impact of Working Memory Training on Children’s Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills

Eva M. Berger, Ernst Fehr, Henning Hermes, Daniel Schunk, Kirsten Winkel
CESifo, Munich, 2024
CESifo Working Paper No. 11010

The Missing Type: Where Are the Inequality Averse (Students)?

Thomas Epper, Julien Senn, Ernst Fehr
CESifo, Munich, 2024
CESifo Working Paper No. 11009

The Fundamental Properties, Stability and Predictive Power of Distributional Preferences

Ernst ⓡ Fehr, Thomas ⓡ Epper, Julien ⓡ Senn
CESifo, Munich, 2023
CESifo Working Paper No. 10727

Social Preferences: Fundamental Characteristics and Economic Consequences

Ernst Fehr, Gary Charness
CESifo, Munich, 2023
CESifo Working Paper No. 10488

Super-Additive Cooperation

Charles Efferson, Helen Bernhard, Urs Fischbacher, Ernst Fehr
CESifo, Munich, 2022
CESifo Working Paper No. 10133

Social Preferences and Redistributive Politics

Ernst Fehr, Thomas Epper, Julien Senn
CESifo, Munich, 2022
CESifo Working Paper No. 9545

The Complementary Nature of Trust and Contract Enforcement

Björn Bartling, Ernst Fehr, David B. Huffmann, Nick Netzer
CESifo, Munich, 2021
CESifo Working Paper No. 8826

Does Market Interaction Erode Moral Values?

Björn Bartling, Ernst Fehr, Yagiz Özdemir
CESifo, Munich, 2020
CESifo Working Paper No. 8546

Time Will Tell: Recovering Preferences when Choices Are Noisy

Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Ernst Fehr, Netzer Nick
CESifo, Munich, 2018
CESifo Working Paper No. 7333

The Causal Effect of Trust

Björn Bartling, Ernst Fehr, David B. Huffman, Nick Netzer
CESifo, Munich, 2018
CESifo Working Paper No. 7324

The Many Faces of Human Sociality: Uncovering the Distribution and Stability of Social Preferences

Adrian Bruhin, Ernst Fehr, Daniel Schunk
CESifo, Munich, 2018
CESifo Working Paper No. 7240

Social Norms, Endogenous Sorting and the Culture of Cooperation

Ernst Fehr, Tony Williams
CESifo, Munich, 2018
CESifo Working Paper No. 7003

Do Professional Norms in the Banking Industry Favor Risk-taking?

Alain Cohn, Ernst Fehr, Michel André Maréchal
CESifo, Munich, 2017
CESifo Working Paper No. 6398

Revealed Preferences in a Sequential Prisoners' Dilemma: A Horse-Race Between Six Utility Functions

Topi Miettinen, Michael Kosfeld, Ernst Fehr, Jörgen W. Weibull
CESifo, Munich, 2017
CESifo Working Paper No. 6358

The Many Faces of Human Sociality: Uncovering the Distribution and Stability of Social Preferences

Adrian Bruhin, Ernst Fehr, Daniel Schunk
CESifo, Munich, 2016
CESifo Working Paper No. 5744

The Ambiguity Triangle: Uncovering Fundamental Patterns of Behavior Under Uncertainty

Daniel R. Burghart, Thomas Epper, Ernst Fehr
CESifo, Munich, 2015
CESifo Working Paper No. 5420

The Role of Bounded Rationality and Imperfect Information in Subgame Perfect Implementation - An Empirical Investigation

Philippe Aghion, Ernst Fehr, Richard Holden, Tom Wilkening
CESifo, Munich, 2015
CESifo Working Paper No. 5300

Handing Out Guns at a Knife Fight: Behavioral Limitations of Subgame-Perfect Implementation

Ernst Fehr, Michael Powell, Tom Wilkening
CESifo, Munich, 2014
CESifo Working Paper No. 4948

The Intrinsic Value of Decision Rights

Björn Bartling, Ernst Fehr, Holger Herz
CESifo, Munich, 2013
CESifo Working Paper No. 4252

Use and Abuse of Authority - A Behavioral Foundation of the Employment Relation

Björn Bartling, Ernst Fehr, Klaus Schmidt
CESifo, Munich, 2013
CESifo Working Paper No. 4068

The Lure of Authority: Motivation and Incentive Effects of Power

Ernst Fehr, Holger Herz, Tom Wilkening
CESifo, Munich, 2012
CESifo Working Paper No. 4021

The Development of Egalitarianism, Altruism, Spite and Parochialism in Childhood and Adolescence

Ernst Fehr, Daniela Rützler, Matthias Sutter
CESifo, Munich, 2011
CESifo Working Paper No. 3361

Fairness and the Optimal Allocation of Ownership Rights

Ernst Fehr, Susanne Kremhelmer, Klaus Schmidt
CESifo, Munich, 2005
CESifo Working Paper No. 1467

Contracts, Fairness, and Incentives

Ernst Fehr, Alexander Klein, Klaus Schmidt
CESifo, Munich, 2004
CESifo Working Paper No. 1215

Money Illusion and Coordination Failure

Ernst Fehr, Jean-Robert Tyran
CESifo, Munich, 2004
CESifo Working Paper No. 1141