Economics of AI

What are the economics of AI? How is AI actually changing firms, markets, the nature of work, and growth? In this collection of recent work you'll see with data and measured effects of how AI is transforming economies – or expected to. Authors include teams from Anthropic, Microsoft Research, MIT, Oxford, Columbia and the Bank of Korea.

Curated by Valency25 worksUpdated Oct 6, 2026Public
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Anthropic Economic Index report: Uneven geographic and enterprise AI adoption
Ruth Appel, Peter McCrory, Alex Tamkin, Miles McCain, Tyler Neylon, Michael Stern
2h ago2 views
Fields: Economics, Econometrics and Finance; License: CC BY 4.0
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Complement or substitute? How AI increases the demand for human skills
Elina Mäkelä, Matthew Bone, Mareike Sehrer, Farah Nanji, Fabian Stephany
2h ago
Fields: Economics, Econometrics and Finance; License: CC BY 4.0
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Shifting Work Patterns with Generative AI
Eleanor Wiske Dillon, Sonia Jaffe, Nicole Immorlica, Christopher T. Stanton
2h ago
Fields: Economics, Econometrics and Finance; License: CC BY 4.0
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Hedonic Prices and Quality Adjusted Price Indices Powered by AI
Patrick Bajari, Zhihao Cen, Victor Chernozhukov, Manoj Manukonda, Suhas Vijaykumar, Jin Wang, Ramon Huerta, Junbo Li, Ling Leng, George Monokroussos +1
2h ago1 view
Fields: Economics, Econometrics and Finance; License: CC BY 4.0
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Vibe Coding Kills Open Source
Miklós Koren, Gábor Békés, Julian Hinz, Aaron Lohmann
2h ago2 views
Fields: Economics, Econometrics and Finance; License: CC BY 4.0
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Crashing Waves vs. Rising Tides: Findings on AI Automation from Thousands of Worker Evaluations of Labor Market Tasks
Matthias Mertens, Adam Kuzee, Brittany S. Harris, Harry Lyu, Wensu Li, Jonathan Rosenfeld, Meiri Anto, Martin Fleming, Neil Thompson
2h ago
Fields: Computer Science; License: CC BY 4.0
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The Turing Valley: How AI Capabilities Shape Labor Income
Enrique Ide, Eduard Talamàs
2h ago
Fields: Economics, Econometrics and Finance; License: CC BY 4.0
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Follow the money: a startup-based measure of AI exposure across occupations, industries and regions
Enrico Maria Fenoaltea, Dario Mazzilli, Aurelio Patelli, Angelica Sbardella, Andrea Tacchella, Andrea Zaccaria, Marco Trombetti, Luciano Pietronero
2h ago
Fields: Economics, Econometrics and Finance; License: CC BY 4.0
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Automation, AI, and the Intergenerational Transmission of Knowledge
Enrique Ide
2h ago
Fields: Economics, Econometrics and Finance; License: CC BY 4.0
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Workers' Incentives and the Optimal Taxation of AI
Jakub Growiec, Klaus Prettner, Maciej Szkróbka
2h ago
Fields: Economics, Econometrics and Finance; License: CC BY 4.0
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The Economics of p(doom): Scenarios of Existential Risk and Economic Growth in the Age of Transformative AI
Jakub Growiec, Klaus Prettner
2h ago
Fields: Economics, Econometrics and Finance; License: CC BY 4.0
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Chaining Tasks, Redefining Work: A Theory of AI Automation
Mert Demirer, John J. Horton, Nicole Immorlica, Brendan Lucier, Peyman Shahidi
1h ago
Fields: Economics, Econometrics and Finance; License: CC BY 4.0
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Signaling in the Age of AI: Evidence from Cover Letters
Jingyi Cui, Gabriel Dias, Justin Ye
2h ago
Fields: Economics, Econometrics and Finance; License: CC BY 4.0
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AI-exposed jobs deteriorated before ChatGPT
Morgan R. Frank, Alireza Javadian Sabet, Lisa Simon, Sarah H. Bana, Renzhe Yu
2h ago
Fields: Economics, Econometrics and Finance; License: CC BY 4.0
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Generative AI in Higher Education: Evidence from an Elite College
Zara Contractor, Germán Reyes
2h ago
Fields: Economics, Econometrics and Finance; License: CC BY 4.0
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Causal Claims in Economics
Prashant Garg, Thiemo Fetzer
2h ago1 view
Fields: Economics, Econometrics and Finance; License: CC BY 4.0
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What Is Your AI Agent Buying? Evaluation, Biases, Model Dependence, & Emerging Implications for Agentic E-Commerce
Amine Allouah, Omar Besbes, Josué D Figueroa, Yash Kanoria, Akshit Kumar
1h ago
Fields: Computer Science; License: CC BY 4.0
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AI Patents in the United States and China: Measurement, Organization, and Knowledge Flows
Hanming Fang, Xian Gu, Hanyin Yan, Wu Zhu
1h ago
Fields: Economics, Econometrics and Finance; License: CC BY 4.0
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Does generative AI narrow education-based productivity gaps? Evidence from a randomized experiment
Guillermo Cruces, Diego Fernandez Meijide, Sebastian Galiani, Ramiro Galvez, Maria Lombardi
1h ago1 view
Fields: Economics, Econometrics and Finance; License: CC BY 4.0
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Agentic AI and Hallucinations
Engin Iyidogan, Ali I. Ozkes
1h ago1 view
Fields: Economics, Econometrics and Finance; License: CC BY 4.0
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Artificial Intelligence Clones
Annie Liang
1h ago1 view
Fields: Economics, Econometrics and Finance; License: CC BY 4.0
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Agentic Artificial Intelligence in Finance: A Comprehensive Survey
Irene Aldridge, Jolie An, Riley Burke, Michael Cao, Chia-Yi Chien, Kexin Deng, Ruipeng Deng, Yichen Gao, Olivia Guo, Shunran He +16
1h ago
Fields: Economics, Econometrics and Finance; License: CC BY 4.0
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Generative AI and the Reallocation of Time: Productivity, Leisure, and Fulfilling Work
Donghyun Suh, Samil Oh
1h ago1 view
Fields: Economics, Econometrics and Finance; License: CC BY 4.0
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The Household Impact of Generative AI: Evidence from Internet Browsing Behavior
Michael Blank, Gregor Schubert, Miao Ben Zhang
1h ago2 views
Fields: Economics, Econometrics and Finance; License: CC BY 4.0
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The Promise and Peril of Generative AI: Evidence from GPT as Sell-Side Analysts
Edward Li, Min Shen, Zhiyuan Tu, Dexin Zhou
1h ago2 views
Fields: Economics, Econometrics and Finance; License: CC BY 4.0