DATE: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. March 8, Lorch Hall 201
4 p.m. March 8, Institute for Social Research 6050
2 p.m. March 9, Institute for Social Research 6050

EVENT: World renowned economist Ernst Fehr will deliver three lectures at the University of Michigan. Fehr, professor of economics at the University of Zurich and at MIT, is best known for his laboratory experiments with human subjects to explore the values and sentiments of fairness and reciprocity as they related to individual economic behavior.

Fehr will lead the Woytinsky Seminar hosted by the U-M Department of Economics at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday. Later that day, he will speak on the enforcement of norms in conditions of social discrimination at the ISR Group Dynamics Seminar. At 2 p.m. Friday, he will speak as part of the ISR Director’s Lecture Series on America’s Evolving Values. His topic: “Do U.S. Americans Trust Strangers More than Germans Do?: Results from Two Representative Experiments.”

SPONSORS: The U-M Department of Economics, the ISR Research Center for Group Dynamics, and the ISR director.