John Duffy (economist)

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John Duffy (born January 2, 1964) is an American economist. He is a professor of economics at the University of California, Irvine.

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Education and career

Duffy earned an AB in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and a PhD in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles. [1] He is a professor of economics at the University of California, Irvine [2] and is also affiliated with the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at Osaka University [3] . He was previously a professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh. [1] Duffy's research interests are behavioral economics, experimental economics, game theory and macroeconomics. [4] His work has been published in The American Economic Review and The Review of Economic Studies , among other venues. [5]

Duffy is known for promoting the use of experimental methods to evaluate macroeconomic models and assumptions and to address questions of equilibrium selection. [6] [7] [8] [ non-primary source needed ] He advocates for the use of experimental methods to empirically validate agent-based models and heterogeneous agent models. [9] [10]

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References

  1. 1 2 "CV" (PDF). John Duffy's homepage. Retrieved December 31, 2020.
  2. ↑ "Faculty Directory". School of Social Sciences. University of California, Irvine. Retrieved December 31, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Faculty Directory". Institute for Social and Economic Research, Osaka University. Retrieved August 7, 2024.
  4. ↑ "Bio". John Duffy's homepage. Retrieved January 26, 2021.
  5. ↑ See selected works.
  6. ↑ Duffy, John (2016). Kagel, John; Roth, Alvin (eds.). Handbook of Experimental Economics Vol. 2. Princeton University Press. pp. 1–90. ISBN   9780691139999.
  7. ↑ Duffy, John, ed. (2016). Experiments in Macroeconomics. Emerald Group Publishing. ISBN   978-1784411947.
  8. ↑ Duffy, John (2008). Durlauf, Steven; Blume, Lawrence E. (eds.). The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Ed. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN   9780333786765.
  9. ↑ Duffy, John (2006). Tesfatsion, Leigh; Judd, Kenneth L. (eds.). Handbook of Computational Economics Vol. 2. North-Holland. pp. 949–1011. ISBN   978-0444512536.
  10. ↑ Arifovic, Jasmina; Duffy, John (2018). Hommes, C.; LeBaron, Kenneth B. (eds.). Handbook of Computational Economics Vol. 4. North-Holland. pp. 491–540. ISBN   978-0444543141.


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