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¶
- 2026-06-20 — Claude Code for Academics: APSA 2026 Presentation (Spina) — Alessandro Spina
- 2026-06-20 — Vibe Research II: My Three Days with Fable 5 — Vincent Grégoire
- 2026-06-20 — Mannheim AI Code Clinic — Session 2 (Olbert & Winter) — Marcel Olbert & Richard Winter
- 2026-06-20 — Mannheim AI Code Clinic — Session 1, Video 3 (Seidel) — Paul Seidel
- 2026-06-20 — Mannheim AI Code Clinic — Session 1, Video 2 (Olbert) — Marcel Olbert
Categories¶
- Foundations & Setup (34) — 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 (29) — Skills, DAAF, continuous improvement, compilation workflows
- Data Analysis & Web Scraping (10) — WRDS, EDGAR, scraping, data pipelines
- Academic Research & Publishing (29) — 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 (11) — 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).