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Benjamin Manning

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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Large Language Models as Simulated Economic Agents: What Can We Learn from Homo Silicus?

NBER Working Paper No. w31122
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 10 Apr 2023 Last Revised: 16 Jul 2023
John J. Horton, Apostolos Filippas and Benjamin Manning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Fordham University - Gabelli School of Business and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Prompt Adaptation as a Dynamic Complement in Generative AI Systems

Number of pages: 84 Posted: 24 Jul 2024 Last Revised: 29 Dec 2025
Eaman Jahani, Benjamin Manning, Joe Zhang, Hong Yi Tu Ye, Mohammed Alsobay, Christos Nicolaides, Siddharth Suri and David Holtz
University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Stanford Graduate School of Business, MIT Sloan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), affiliation not provided to SSRN, Microsoft Corporation - Microsoft Research, New York City and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations
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Generative AI, Prompting, Prompt Engineering, Online Lab Experiment, Prolific, Computational Social Science

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General Social Agents

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General Social Agents

Number of pages: 76 Posted: 24 Sep 2025 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2026
Benjamin Manning and John J. Horton
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Generative AI, Behavioral Game Theory, Experiments

General Social Agents

NBER Working Paper No. w34937
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 10 Mar 2026
Benjamin Manning and John J. Horton
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Automated Social Science: Language Models as Scientist and Subjects

NBER Working Paper No. w32381
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 29 Apr 2024
Benjamin Manning, Kehang Zhu and John J. Horton
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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The Coasean Singularity? Demand, Supply, and Market Design with AI Agents

NBER Working Paper No. w34468
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 11 Nov 2025
Peyman Shahidi, Gili Rusak, Benjamin Manning, Andrey Fradkin and John J. Horton
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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