恩斯特·费尔（Ernst Fehr），出生于1956年，毕业于维也纳大学经济学，获得博士学位。1989年，费尔在伦敦经济与政治大学担任研究助理。1989年至1991年，费尔成为维也纳科技大学的经济与经济政治系的助理教授。1993年起成为该系的副教授。同年出任了维也纳路德维西·伯茨曼经济研究中心主任。1994年，费尔晋升为苏黎世大学经济学教授，主持行为经济学的研究工作。

恩斯特·费尔发表的作品大多与“神经经济学”相关(一个研究人的大脑如何做出货币金融判断的跨学科领域)，除此之外，恩斯特·费尔还对“信任，公平，互惠”等问题有所研究。

费尔最突出的成就是在行为经济学领域。行为经济学是一门试图将心理学的研究成果融入标准经济学理论的科学。行为经济学尝试对非理性行为进行研究，打破了主流经济学的界限及视域，在“现实人”的基础上发展了主流学派的“经济人”概念。费尔主张关注人们在经济交流中对公平或合作偏好的决定。这让经济学家们将视野转向人类的行为因素对于经济决策等的影响研究。这种改变对主流经济学的部分假设起到了修正和补充的作用。 为此，费尔也被誉为仅次于马克思的第二伟大的德语经济学家。

瑞士苏黎世大学经济实证研究所主任恩斯特·费尔(ERNST FEHR)教授，曾获得过2004年Cogito基金会Cogito奖和2008年马塞尔·本努瓦奖(Marcel Benoist Prize)。经济学界排名处于前1%，过去的十年有9篇论文获奖。

• June 1991 Habilitation in Economics
• 1988 – 1989 Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science
• 1982 – 1988 Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Economics and Economic Policy at the University of Technology in Vienna (Chair: Prof. DDr. H. Frisch).
• 1980 – 1982 Post Graduate Education in Economics at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna
• 1980 – 1982 Research Assistant at the Institute for Public Finance and Economic Policy (Chair: Prof. A. van der Bellen).
• 1980 – 1986 Doctorate in Economics at the University of Vienna
• 1975 – 1980 University Education in Economics at the University of Vienna (Masters Degree)
• 1970 – 1975 Business College in Bregenz (Austria)
• 1966 – 1970 Secondary School in Hörbranz (Austria)
• 1962 – 1966 Primary School in Hörbranz (Austria)

• 2009 Member of the Academia Europaea
• 2009 Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science
• 2008 Member of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
• 2008 Offer for the Drummond Professorship at the University of Oxford (UK);previous holders of this chair include Francis Edgeworth and the Nobel prizewinners Sir John Hicks, Joseph Stiglitz, and Amartya Sen
• 2008 Elected member of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences
• 2007 Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2005–present，Director of the Priority Research Program on the “Foundation of Human Social Behavior” at the University of Zurich
• Dec. 2004 Offer for the Professorship of Political Economy 1863 at the University of Cambridge (UK); previous holders of this chair include Alfred Marshall,Arthur C. Pigou and the Nobel prizewinners James Meade and Jim Mirrlees.
• 2004 – 2009 Fellow at the Collegium Helveticum
• 2003–present， Affiliated Faculty Member of the Department of Economics at MIT
• 2002 – 2006 External Faculty Member of the Santa Fe Institute
• Nov. 2002 Offer to become Global Distinguished Professor in Economics at New York University
• Oct. 2002 Offer for a Full Professorship at the University of California at Berkeley
• April 2002 Offer for a Full Professorship at Princeton University and the Woodrow Wilson School
• Jan. 1999 Offer for a Professorship in Economics at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy)
• April 1998 Offer for a Full Professorship in Economics at the University of Mannheim (Germany)
• Dec. 1997 Offer for a Full Professorship in Economics at the University of Bonn (previously held chair by Nobel Prize winner Reinhard Selten)
• 1995 – 2003 Core Member of the Research Initiative of the MacArthur Foundation (Chicago) on “Evolution of Preferences and Social Norms”
• August 1994 Offer for a Full Professorship in Economic Theory at the Technical Univ. of Darmstadt (Germany)
• 1994 –present， Chair for Microeconomics and Experiment Economic Research at the Faculty of Economics and Computer Science at the University of Zürich
• 1993 – 2006 Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research in Economic Growth, Vienna
• Dec. 1992 Offer for a Full Professorship in Economic Theory at the Univ. of Linz (Austria)
• 1991 – 1994 Associate Professor at the Dept. of Economics and Economic Policy at the University of Technology in Vienna
• 1989 – 1991 Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Economics and Economic Policy at the University of Technology in Vienna

• Major awards:
  • 2008 Awarded the Marcel Benoit Prize. This prize is the oldest scientific award in Switzerland and represents the Swiss Confederation’s highest recognition for outstanding achievements in the sciences and the humanities.
  • 2004 Accorded the Cogito Prize for the deepening of our insights into the origins and economic consequences of human altruism.
  • 2000 Recipient of the Hicks-Tinbergen Medal for the outstanding paper in the European Economic Review during 1998-2000, EEA-Meeting (Bolzano).

The prize was awarded for the paper "Gift Exchange and Reciprocity in Competitive Experimental Markets", European Economic Review 42(1998), 1-34, (with G.Kirchsteiger and A. Riedl).

• • 1999 Awarded the Gossen Prize of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik). The Gossen Prize is awarded every year to an economist under the age of 45 who has achieved international recognition and reputation.

• Honorary degrees:
  • 2009 Honorary doctorate in economics from the University of Lausanne
  • 2008 Honorary doctorate in economics from the University of Munich
  • 2004 Honorary doctorate in economics from the University of St. Gallen Presidencies of major associations:
  • 2008 European Economic Association
  • 2005 Economic Science Association

• Invitations to join major academic organizations:
  • 2009 (May) Named Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science
  • 2009 (May) Invited to become member of the Academia Europaea
  • 2008 (May) Named John Kenneth Galbraith Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences
  • 2008 (Dec.) Member of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  • 2007 (Oct.) Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2002 (Dec.) Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina

• Special distinctions:
  • 2008 (Sept.) Keynote Lecture at the annual meeting of the Verein für Socialpolitik [Society for Social Policy], Graz, Austria
  • 2008(August) Presidential address at the annual congress of the European Economic Association
  • 2008 (March) Sargan lecture at the annual meeting of the Royal Economic Society
  • 2006 (June) Invited to present the Walter-Adolf-Jöhr Lecture at the University of St.Gallen
  • 2006 (June) Invited lecture at the annual meeting of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies, Vienna
  • 2006 (April) Keynote lecture at the annual meeting of the Austrian Psychological Society
  • 2006(August) Keynote lecture at the annual meeting of the European Association in Industrial Economics (EARIE), Amsterdam
  • 2005(November) Keynote lecture at the annual meeting of the Southern Economic Association
  • 2005(September) Keynote lecture at the annual meeting of the International Society for New Institutional Economics (ISNIE)
  • 2005 (June) Lecture at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on “The Nature of Human Altruism”
  • 2005 (June) Invited Lecture at the Nobel Symposium on Neuroscience and Emotions, Stockholm
  • 2005 (March) Keynote lecture at the annual meeting of the Scottish Economic Association
  • 2005 (March) Snyder Lecture at the University of California at Santa Barbara
  • 2003(August) Keynote Lecture at the tenth international conference on social dilemmas, Stockholm
  • 2003 (June) Keynote Lecture at the annual meeting of the German Association of Business Administration, Zurich
  • 2003 (June) Keynote Lecture at the annual meeting of the Evolution and Human Behavior Society, Omaha, Nebraska
  • 2003 (June) Keynote Lecture at the annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Aix-en-Provence
  • 2002 (Dec.) Zeuthen Lectures at the University of Copenhagen
  • 2002(September) Keynote Lecture at the World Congress of the International Economic Association in Lisbon
  • 2001 – 2002 Member of the Hicks-Tinbergen Committee to select the best paper in the European Economic Review (together with Philippe Aghion and Guiseppe Bertola).
  • 2001(December) Invited Lecture at the Nobel Symposium on Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Stockholm
  • 2001 (Aug.) Schumpeter Lecture at the European Economic Association Meeting
  • 2001 (April) Frank Hahn Lecture at annual conference of the Royal Economic Society
  • 2000(August) Lecture in the invited paper session on Behavioral Economics at the 8th world congress of the Econometric Society, Seattle (with K. Schmidt)
  • 2000 (May) Keynote address at the Congress of the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology and Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics
  • 1999 (June) Keynote address at the 16th Conference on Applied Micro-Economics,Lyon
  • 1999 (May) Keynote address at the world meeting of the Economic Science Association, Lake Tahoe, California
  • 1999 (Sept.) Keynote address at the Congress of the European Association for Labor Economics