AgentEconomist: AI System Translates Economic Intuitions into Computational Experiments
A team of researchers has created AgentEconomist, a comprehensive interactive platform that converts abstract economic concepts into testable computational experiments. This system is built on a specialized knowledge base that encompasses over 13,000 high-quality academic articles and features a modular, multi-stage design. It includes an Idea Development Stage for generating hypotheses based on literature, an Experimental Design Stage to set up parameters and protocols aligned with simulators, and an Experimental Execution Stage that conducts experiments and provides structured analyses. These components work together in an iterative workflow involving human input. The introduction of this system was detailed in a paper on arXiv (2604.27725), aiming to facilitate the translation of intuitive insights into verifiable economic research.
Key facts
- AgentEconomist is an end-to-end interactive system for translating economic intuitions into computational experiments.
- The system uses a domain-specific knowledge base covering over 13,000 academic papers.
- It has a modular multi-stage architecture: Idea Development, Experimental Design, and Experimental Execution.
- The Idea Development Stage generates literature-grounded hypotheses.
- The Experimental Design Stage configures simulator-aligned parameters and protocols.
- The Experimental Execution Stage runs experiments and returns structured analyses.
- The workflow is human-in-the-loop and iterative.
- The system was introduced in arXiv paper 2604.27725.
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- arXiv