Andrew Caplin is Silver Professor of Economics at New York University and a fellow of the Econometric Society. In addition to this, he is Director of the Behavioral Economics Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the Sloan-Nomis Program on the Cognitive Foundations of Economic Behavior. He has proposed innovative methods of housing finance, which are currently under development. The work Caplin is doing to introduce cognitive economics as a unique academic and applied approach is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.