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] 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. [3] His work has been published in The American Economic Review and The Review of Economic Studies , among other venues.

Duffy is known for promoting the use of experimental methods to evaluate macroeconomic models and assumptions and to address questions of equilibrium selection. [4] [5] [6] [ non-primary source needed ] He advocates for the use of experimental methods to empirically validate agent-based models and heterogeneous agent models. [7] [8]

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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. "Bio". John Duffy's homepage. Retrieved January 26, 2021.
  4. Duffy, John (2016). Kagel, John; Roth, Alvin (eds.). Handbook of Experimental Economics Vol. 2. Princeton University Press. pp. 1–90. ISBN   9780691139999.
  5. Duffy, John, ed. (2016). Experiments in Macroeconomics. Emerald Group Publishing. ISBN   978-1784411947.
  6. Duffy, John (2008). Durlauf, Steven; Blume, Lawrence E. (eds.). The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Ed. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN   9780333786765.
  7. Duffy, John (2006). Tesfatsion, Leigh; Judd, Kenneth L. (eds.). Handbook of Computational Economics Vol. 2. North-Holland. pp. 949–1011. ISBN   978-0444512536.
  8. 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.