Finance & Econometrics Applications

AI applied to finance research, policy evaluation, and econometric analysis.

Summaries

Automated Research

• Project APE — Fully automated economics research pipeline with multi-model tournament
• Automated Research in Finance — Lopez-Lira's pipeline seeking collaborators for journal submissions
• AI-Powered (Finance) Scholarship — Novy-Marx & Velikov: 30K signals → 95 survivors → 380 LLM-generated papers
• Applications (Korinek) — Comprehensive guide to 7 LLM application domains for economists

Commentary & Threads

• Thread: Arin Dube — LLMs haven't raised NBER output; ideas, not RA labor, are the constraint
• Thread: Jesús Fernández-Villaverde — 12 arguments for traditional higher ed survival in AI era
• Thread: Alex Olegi — Licklider's "Man-Computer Symbiosis" as frame for AI-research moment
• Thread: Chris Blattman — Conversion from Claude Code skeptic to power user