Simon Haastert

Hey, welcome to my personal website!

I am a PhD candidate at the Institute of Econometrics and Economic Statistics at the University of Münster.

My main research interest is the application of reinforcement learning to economic modelling, that is modelling human behavior in macroeconomic and game theoretic models through deep RL. Besides I am also very keen on learning more about network science, mean field games and more generally all data science methods.

Current research projects:

1. Modelling cooperation in a dynamic common pool resource game with deep reinforcement learning.
2. Bayesian latent community detection in the international arms trade - a network analysis
3. Dynamic social evaluation functions, reinforcement learning and inequality measurement

Teaching:

• Dynamic Optimization and Reinforcement Learning (Winter term 2022)
• Introduction to R (Summer term 2023)