Yannis Ioannides

Department of Economics, Tufts University
Max and Herta Neubauer Professor of Economics

Yannis M. Ioannides joined the Tufts faculty in September 1995 as the Max and Herta Neubauer Chair and Professor in Economics. Previously he taught at Brown University, 1974-1980, Boston University, 1980-1986, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, where he also served as Department Head from 1989-1995. He has also held an appointment as a Professor of Economics at the Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece. He received his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University, Athens, Greece, 1968, and his MS in Engineering-Economic Systems, 1970, and his Ph.D. in Engineering-Economic Systems and Economics, 1974, both from Stanford University. His current research interests combine social economics and macroeconomics, with special emphasis on economic growth and inequality, social interactions and networks, cyclical aspects of inequality, and housing markets.

His research has emphasized both applied theory and empirics, and since 1995 focused in numerous applications that share social interactions as an overarching theme. He sees the web of individuals' direct interdependence in modern economies at least as important as individuals' interactions through markets.

He served as Associate Editor of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, second edition (Steven N. Durlauf and Laurence E. Blume, General Editors), as a member of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Social Interactions and Economic Inequality, and as a consultant to US and international institutions. He has participated widely in conferences and has published more than eighty articles in edited volumes and leading scholarly journals including American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economic Theory, International Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Economic Journal, Regional Science and Urban Economics, The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, and Economic Policy.

His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. His book, titled From Neighborhoods to Nations: The Economics of Social Interactions, Princeton University Press, is forthcoming in 2012. He has a side interest in Modern Greek Studies, and is co-chairing the Greek Study Group, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University.

Working Group

Inequality: Measurement, Interpretation, and Policy (MIP)

Additional Information

Email: yannis.ioannides@tufts.edu
Homepage: http://www.tufts.edu/~yioannid/