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.
I am currently doing a postdoc with Christian Schroeder de Witt and Philip Torr at the University of Oxford. I am also an associate member of BOLD and collaborate with Jakob Foerster.
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
(Slides, NASMES 2026)
3. Macroeconomic Modeling
Developing models to understand macroeconomic phenomena and policy impacts.
My Contact Information
Questions? Get in touch with me!
Office: Eagle House; IEB, University of Oxford