AI in Business & Economic Research¶
A curated knowledge base on using AI tools and workflows for business and economic research. Built from 184+ web articles, academic papers, and practitioner guides.
Recent¶
- 2026-09-30 — Introducing Living Science — Chenhao Tan
- 2026-09-30 — Prompt Library (Wharton Generative AI Labs) — Ethan Mollick & Lilach Mollick
- 2026-09-30 — Beyond the Stochastic Beamer Parrot (Bäckman) — Claes Bäckman
- 2026-09-30 — Barrios Skills — AI Workflows for Academic Research (Barrios) — John Manuel Barrios
- 2026-09-30 — AI Guide for Economists: Working with AI — A Philosophy (Matray) — Adrien Matray
Categories¶
- Foundations & Setup (36) — Installation, privacy, getting started with AI coding tools
- Prompt Engineering & Workflow (12) — Prompt design, plan-driven development, workflow architecture
- AI Agents & Agentic AI (14) — Agent frameworks, agentic workflows, autonomous research
- Claude Code Skills & Advanced (31) — Skills, DAAF, continuous improvement, compilation workflows
- Data Analysis & Web Scraping (10) — WRDS, EDGAR, scraping, data pipelines
- Academic Research & Publishing (37) — Vibe research, feedback machines, AI-assisted writing, agentic reproducibility, verification, theory tooling
- Finance & Econometrics (20) — Project APE, automated research in finance, asset-pricing repos, structural change theory
- AI Tools & Comparisons (12) — ChatGPT vs Claude, Cursor, NotebookLM, paper-review tools
- Institutional & Societal (21) — 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).