Yannis Menelaos Ioannides (Greek: Ιωάννης Μενελάου Ιωαννίδης; born 1945 in Kyparissia, Greece) is a Greek-American economist, who received his Ph.D. from Stanford University, 1974.
He joined the Tufts University faculty in September 1995 as the Max and Herta Neubauer Chair and Professor in Economics.
He has sought to clarify how housing serves both households’ needs for consumption as well as for diversification of asset holdings during the life cycle.
He has also written on various aspects of labor markets and household decisions in dynamic settings, as well as other several topics that provide input to modern macroeconomics and adopted tools of macroeconomics for use in urban, regional, social and labor economics.
His book, From Neighborhoods to Nations: The Economics of Social Interactions, Princeton University Press, 2013, aims at synthesizing the literature on neighborhood effects and social interactions into a theory of the spatial structure of modern economies.