Brandon Kaplowitz
I recently graduated from NYU with a PhD in Economics. My job market paper is "Reinforcement Learning and Consumption Savings Behavior". I focus on using novel approaches from deep and reinforcement learning to rigorously model, understand, and predict the behavior of agents in socioeconomic settings.
My Current Interests
My work combines theoretical and empirical methods to address macroeconomic and microbehavioral questions. I am interested in better modeling the behavioral responses of agents to understand the responses of agents to government policy and how economic crises and shocks emerge and evolve.
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1. Reinforcement Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Decision-Making
Exploring how reinforcement learning techniques can be applied to economic modeling and decision-making processes.
Selected Publications on this topic:
International Conference on Machine Learning 2024
Bayesian Exploration Networks Mattie Fellows*, Brandon Kaplowitz*, Christian Shroeder de Witt, and Shimon Whiteson
2. Behavioral Economics
Investigating the intersection of psychology and economics to better understand human decision-making.
Selected Publications on this topic:
Job Market Paper
Reinforcement Learning and Consumption-Savings Behavior Brandon Kaplowitz
3. Macroeconomic Modeling
Developing models to understand macroeconomic phenomena and policy impacts.
My Contact Information
Questions? Get in touch with me!
Office: Economics Department, 7th floor, NYU Stern
Email: bgk258@nyu.edu