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Overview

Andrew Caplin is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields and subfields, focusing predominantly on Economics and Econometrics as well as related areas. Caplin's work is frequently published in respected academic venues, indicating an active contribution to ongoing discourse in their areas of expertise.

Their research primarily explores topics including:

  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing
  • Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Retirement, Disability, and Employment
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation

Caplin's notable recent papers include:

  • "Rational Inattention, Competitive Supply, and Psychometrics" (2020), published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics
  • "Rationally Inattentive Behavior: Characterizing and Generalizing Shannon Entropy" (2022), published in the Journal of Political Economy
  • "Older Americans Would Work Longer if Jobs Were Flexible" (2020), published in American Economic Journal Macroeconomics
  • "Comparison of Decisions under Unknown Experiments" (2021), published in the Journal of Political Economy
  • "Modeling Machine Learning" (2022), published in SSRN Electronic Journal

Their collaborations include frequent co-authorship with researchers such as Søren Leth-Petersen, Philip Marx, Daniel Martin, Johan Sæverud, and John Leahy. These partnerships reflect interdisciplinary work that bridges economics with decision sciences and related disciplines.

In terms of publication venues, Caplin has contributed extensively to:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Political Economy
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Quarterly Journal of Economics

Their academic output includes contributions to book publications, notably a volume titled The Science of Mistakes released in 2022 under World Scientific lecture notes in economics and policy.

Caplin's main areas of research intersect economic modeling, behavioral economics, and artificial intelligence applications, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach aimed at advancing understanding in decision-making processes and policy-relevant economic issues.

Best Publications

  • Psychological Expected Utility Theory and Anticipatory Feelings

    Andrew Caplin;John Leahy

  • Menu Costs and the Neutrality of Money

    Andrew S. Caplin;Daniel F. Spulber

  • AGGREGATION AND IMPERFECT COMPETITION: ON THE EXISTENCE OF EQUILIBRIUM

    Andrew Caplin;Barry Nalebuff

  • Wealth Accumulation and the Propensity to Plan

    John Ameriks;Andrew Caplin;John Leahy

  • Revealed Preference, Rational Inattention, and Costly Information Acquisition

    Andrew Caplin;Mark Dean

  • The Joy of Giving or Assisted Living? Using Strategic Surveys to Separate Public Care Aversion from Bequest Motives

    John Ameriks;Andrew Caplin;Steven Laufer;Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

  • State-Dependent Pricing and the Dynamics of Money and Output

    Andrew Caplin;John Leahy

  • Search and Satisficing

    Andrew Caplin;Mark Dean;Daniel Martin

  • Measuring Self-Control Problems

    John Ameriks;Andrew Caplin;John Leahy;T. O.M. Tyler

  • AGGREGATION AND SOCIAL CHOICE: A MEAN VOTER THEOREM

    Andrew Caplin;Barry Nalebuff

  • Business as Usual, Market Crashes, and Wisdom after the Fact

    Andrew Caplin;John Leahy

  • THE VARIABILITY OF AGGREGATE DEMAND WITH (S, s) INVENTORY POLICIES

    Andrew S. Caplin

  • ON 64%-MAJORITY RULE

    Andrew Caplin;Barry Nalebuff

  • The Social Discount Rate

    Andrew Caplin;John Leahy

  • Rational Inattention, Optimal Consideration Sets, and Stochastic Choice

    Andrew Caplin;Mark Dean;John Leahy

  • Testing the Reward Prediction Error Hypothesis with an Axiomatic Model

    Robb B. Rutledge;Mark Dean;Andrew Caplin;Paul W. Glimcher

  • The foundations of positive and normative economics : a handbook

    Andrew Caplin;Andrew Schotter

  • Rationally Inattentive Behavior: Characterizing and Generalizing Shannon Entropy

    Andrew Caplin;Mark Dean;John Leahy

  • Measuring Self-Control

    John Ameriks;Andrew Caplin;John Leahy;Tom Tyler

  • AGGREGATION AND OPTIMIZATION WITH STATE-DEPENDENT PRICING

    Andrew Caplin;John Leahy

  • Miracle on Sixth Avenue: Information Externalities and Search

    Andrew Caplin;John Leahy

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew D. Shapiro
Matthew D. Shapiro University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Joseph S. Tracy
Joseph S. Tracy American Enterprise Institute
Barry Nalebuff
Barry Nalebuff Yale University
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh Columbia University
Paul W. Glimcher
Paul W. Glimcher New York University
Sumit Chopra
Sumit Chopra New York University
Yann LeCun
Yann LeCun Facebook (United States)
Tom R. Tyler
Tom R. Tyler Yale University
Oded Nov
Oded Nov New York University
Daniel F. Spulber
Daniel F. Spulber Northwestern University

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