Conference Overview

The Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence at Chicago Booth hosts the third AI & Economics Summer Conference (formerly MLESC) on Tuesday, August 11 at the University of Chicago, Saieh Hall 021. A single day of research talks on where AI and economics meet, from asset pricing and labor markets to the design of AI systems themselves.

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The day at a glance:

Tuesday, August 11 · Conference Program

8:30–9:00 AM	Breakfast
9:00–10:10 AM	Dimitris Papanikolaou (Northwestern University) Suproteem Sarkar (Chicago Booth)
10:10–10:30 AM	Break
10:30–11:40 AM	Veronika Ročková (Chicago Booth) — Empirical Likelihood with Generative AI Aloni Cohen (University of Chicago)
11:40–1:00 PM	Lunch
1:00–2:00 PM	Ben Manning (MIT) — General Social Agents Jiannan Xu (University of Maryland) — Escaping the Nash Trap: Structural Estimation and Alignment of Strategic Reasoning in Large Language Models Yuya Shimizu (University of Wisconsin) — Econometrics with Pre-Trained Embeddings for Unstructured Data
2:00–2:30 PM	Break
2:30–3:30 PM	Jacob Carlson (Harvard University) — Making Interpretable Discoveries from Unstructured Data: A High-Dimensional Multiple Hypothesis Testing Approach Kianté Fernandez (UCLA) Eugenio Piga (UC San Diego) — Agentic Monoculture under Firm Competition: Evidence from AI Interviews
3:30–4:00 PM	Break
4:00–4:30 PM	David Yanagizawa-Drott (University of Zurich) — Verifying the Verifiers: Toward Autonomous Policy Evaluation
4:30–6:00 PM	Reception