Silver Professor of Economics
Department of Economics, New York University
Andrew Caplin is Director of the Scientific Agenda for the Kavli HUMAN Project, and is Silver Professor of Economics at New York University (NYU). He is also the Deputy Director of NYU’s Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Decision Making. In addition, Dr. Caplin is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research; Co-Principal Investigator of the Vanguard Research Initiative, a collaboration of the University of Michigan, New York University, and Vanguard; Co-Director of the Center for Experimental Social Science at NYU; and Co-Organizer of the Seminar in Neuroeconomics at NYU. He is part of the Scientific Selection Committee of the Bounded Rationality in Choice (BRIC) Annual Conference and a Fellow of the Econometric Society. Dr. Caplin has also testified before Congress on proposals for housing finance reform. He is interested in economic theory, the interface between psychology and economics, and neuroeconomics, as well as increasing returns to scale and transactions costs, household finance, and the economics of residential real estate finance. His past appointments include: Assistant Professor at Harvard University; Assistant Professor at Princeton University; and Professor at Columbia University. Dr. Caplin received his B.A. in economics, first class, from Cambridge University, and his Ph.D., with distinction, from Yale University.