Sebastian Benthall
Sebastian Benthall, PhD, is a contributor to Econ-ARK, an open source toolkit for heterogeneous agent modeling. He is a Principal Investigator at the International Computer Science Institute, and a Senior Research Fellow at New York University School of Law, where he researchers computational economics approaches to data protection and AI regulation.
Sessions
Economics research has widespread policy and industrial applications. It is rapidly changing due to open source tools. Deep learning techniques have widened the range of models that it is feasible to solve, simulate, and estimate. This talk highlights recent contributions to computational economics and their Python packages. It is aimed at quantitative analysts and economists working in finance and public policy.