John Duffy (born January 2, 1964) is an American economist. He is a professor of economics at the University of California, Irvine.
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.[4]
Duffy is known for promoting the use of experimental methods to evaluate macroeconomic models and assumptions and to address questions of equilibrium selection.[5][6][7][non-primary source needed] He advocates for the use of experimental methods to empirically validate agent-based models and heterogeneous agent models.[8][9]