Sean Masaki Flynn

Sean Flynn earned his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, studying under Nobel Prize winners George Akerlof and Daniel McFadden. He is a member of the American Economic Association, the American Finance Association, the Economic Science Association, and the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics. His research focuses on the often puzzling and seemingly irrational behavior of stock market investors, but he’s also investigated topics as wide-ranging as the factors that affect customer tipping behavior at restaurants and why you see a lot of unionized workers only in certain industries. He’s also a leading expert on closed-end mutual funds.