AI in Business & Economic Research¶
A curated knowledge base on using AI tools and workflows for business and economic research. Built from 176+ web articles, academic papers, and practitioner guides.
Recent¶
- 2026-05-26 — Claude Code 103 for Academic Researchers (Bilal) — Mushtaq Bilal
- 2026-05-26 — Skills: Specifying How an Agent Should Think (Substack companion) — Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
- 2026-05-26 — Skills: Claude Code for Economists (Markus Academy 162-6) — Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
- 2026-05-26 — Permissions, Sandboxes, and Autonomous Agents (companion Substack post) — Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
- 2026-05-26 — Permissions & OpenClaw: Claude Code for Economists (Markus Academy 162-7) — Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
Categories¶
- Foundations & Setup (28) — Installation, privacy, getting started with AI coding tools
- Prompt Engineering & Workflow (10) — Prompt design, plan-driven development, workflow architecture
- AI Agents & Agentic AI (13) — Agent frameworks, agentic workflows, autonomous research
- Claude Code Skills & Advanced (28) — Skills, DAAF, continuous improvement, compilation workflows
- Data Analysis & Web Scraping (10) — WRDS, EDGAR, scraping, data pipelines
- Academic Research & Publishing (26) — Vibe research, feedback machines, AI-assisted writing, agentic reproducibility
- Finance & Econometrics (15) — Project APE, automated research in finance, asset-pricing repos, structural change theory
- AI Tools & Comparisons (10) — ChatGPT vs Claude, Cursor, NotebookLM, paper-review tools
- Institutional & Societal (20) — AI adoption, the bitter lesson, AI as normal technology, plural intelligence
- Professional Productivity (13) — Executive assistant, project management, tax, meetings
Navigation¶
- Recent — Last 15 pages added to the wiki
- Summaries — One page per source article or paper
- Concepts — Cross-cutting themes synthesized across sources
- Visualizations — Diagrams, maps, and timelines
- Author Index — Every author with links to their summaries
- Category Map — How the ten categories relate
- Source Timeline — Sources by publication date
About¶
For researchers and practitioners looking to integrate AI into their workflow. Maintained by Mihail Velikov (Penn State, Smeal College of Business).