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88 papers, from 31 August 2026 to 4 November 2026: 59 arXiv preprints and 29 OpenAlex records.
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Right Order, Wrong Scale: Auditing LLM Judges for Occupational AI Measurement
LLM judges are increasingly used to assess whether AI outputs meet workplace requirements, but agreement on response rankings does not establish agreement on acceptance rates or occupational…Inherited Wage Dispersion and Optimal Discretion in a Dual-Rigidity TANK Model
How does an inherited cross-type wage gap enter Markov-perfect discretionary monetary policy when transfers are passive?Information Games: Strategic Crowding and Firm Repositioning in Language-Model Space
Firms follow changing economic opportunities, but rivalry changes their response.AI-based matching improves refugee employment in a double-blind randomized trial
Refugee integration is a central policy challenge for host countries, and where governments initially place refugees shapes their integration trajectories.Representation Risk in Pretrained Image Encoders
Applied researchers increasingly convert images into features with pretrained encoders, then use those features in a downstream prediction model.PriceBench: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Price, Quality, and Brand Preferences in LLM Booking Agents
LLMs increasingly act as purchasing agents, which makes the LLM, not the user, the one choosing among the options that satisfy a request; its preferences quietly fix what gets bought and what it…Why Does Misinformation Propagate Faster? An Algorithmic Perspective on X
Misinformation is widely reported to propagate faster on engagement-based platforms, yet prior work largely focused on empirical analysis, without identifying a specific algorithmic mechanism that…Sovereign Grassroots Currencies: A CBDC Architecture for Credit and Monetary Policy (Full Version)
A Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is central-bank money in digital form, held by the public.Shopping by algorithm: How agentic AI deploys human heuristics as a surrogate consumer
Consumers increasingly delegate purchasing decisions to Large Language Models (LLMs) acting as surrogate consumers.Seeing Is Not Perceiving: When Synthetic Consumers Can and Cannot Pretest Visual Marketing
Marketers now deploy generative AI agents as synthetic consumers to pretest visual assets such as logos, packaging, and advertising at a fraction of human-panel cost.Firm Valuation When AI Shapes the Business Model: A Milestone-Based Real-Options Framework for the AI Valuation Uncertainty Problem
Standard valuation methods, including discounted cash flow, the income approach standard IDW S 1 of the Institute of Public Auditors in Germany, and market multiples, compress milestone…Social Influence and the Allocation of Scientific Attention in AI Populations
AI systems are becoming participants in the evaluation and use of scientific research.A Dual-Process Perspective on Nudge Susceptibility in LLM-Based GUI Agents
LLM-based GUI agents increasingly act on behalf of users in digital environments that were designed with human users in mind.Whom Do AI Agents Work For? Role Assignment Induces Sponsorship Bias in LLM Recommenders
Large language models (LLMs) now serve as conversational shopping assistants on platforms that also sell advertising.Multitask Reinforcement Learning for Assisting Choice Model Specification
Discrete choice model specification is a time-consuming task in which modellers often specify and estimate multiple models while balancing goodness-of-fit, parsimony, and behavioural plausibility.Recursive Reasoning or Statistical Extrapolation? In-Context Learning in Multi-Agent Interdependent Decision-Making
In-context learning (ICL) enables large language model (LLM) agents to improve decisions using interaction history, yet it remains unclear whether such improvement reflects refined internal…The AI-Enabled Scientific Frontier
As artificial intelligence's capabilities improve, it is increasingly viewed as a general scientific method.Loop-Back Authority in LLM Agent Teams: A Paired Experiment on Flat and Hierarchical Coordination
Hierarchical orchestration, in which a Manager agent reviews worker output and can send it back for revision, is the default coordination pattern in production multi-agent LLM frameworks.Mechanism Design for Ad-Supported Platforms
Many digital platforms earn revenue by selling content access and displaying ads.AI for AI: Optimizing Additional Infrastructure Build-out to Power Artificial Intelligence Data Centers
The twenty-first century's transformative technology, artificial intelligence, is increasingly constrained by the twentieth century's transformative technology, the electricity grid.