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
• ZeroPaper Gallery — Public catalog of 22 finance papers produced end-to-end by Lopez-Lira's ZeroPaper pipeline
• ZeroPaper Template — Public release of Lopez-Lira's autonomous pipeline as a clonable template (Claude Code / Codex / Gemini)
• ZeroPaper Paper — Lopez-Lira's design discipline: 10 premises + 6 principles behind a long-running autonomous research pipeline
• 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
• ai-asset-pricing (Dickerson) — Multi-agent empirical asset pricing repo with WRDS, PyBondLab, LaTeX
• ralph-wiggum-asset-pricing (Chen) — Open-source Ralph loop framework for generating asset pricing papers
• Claude WRDS Toolkit (Liu/Orłowski) — Subagents + skills for autonomous CRSP/Compustat/IBES/OptionMetrics/TAQ queries

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

Theory of AI in the Economy

• What Will Be Scarce? — Imas: structural change toward relational sector with mimetic preferences