Biography

Maximilian Kasy is Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford. He received his PhD at UC Berkeley and joined Oxford after appointments at UCLA and Harvard University.

His current research interests focus on social foundations for statistics and machine learning, going beyond traditional single-agent decision theory. He also works on economic inequality, job guarantee programs, and basic income. He teaches a course on foundations of machine learning at the economics department at Oxford.

Recent Publications

Jul 2025
Working Paper
Cash Transfers, Mental Health and Agency: Evidence from an RCT in Germany
Sandra Bohmann ,  Susann Fiedler ,  Maximilian Kasy ,  Jürgen Schupp ,  Frederik Schwerter
Jul 2025
Article
Jun 2025
Working Paper
Basic Income and Labor Supply: Evidence from an RCT in Germany
Sarah Bernhard ,  Sandra Bohmann ,  Susann Fiedler ,  Maximilian Kasy ,  Jürgen Schupp ,  Frederik Schwerter
Jun 2025
Policy Briefing
Mar 2024
Journal
Adaptive maximization of social welfare
in Econometrica
Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi ,  Roberto Colomboni ,  Maximilian Kasy
Sept 2023
Policy Briefing
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Recent Events

12 Jun 24
@17:00

Book tour panel discussion - The Alternative: How to build a just economy

A panel event with author Nick Romeo, and panellists Eric Beinhocker. Noam Yuchtman and Maximilian Kasy.

Hybrid Event
Nick Romeo