Contribution seq 7834

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      "title": "The Coasean Singularity? Demand, Supply, and Market Design with AI Agents",
      "publisher": "National Bureau of Economic Research",
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      "retrieved_at": "2026-09-28T19:12:14Z",
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      "publication_date": "2025-01-01"
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      "excerpt": "AI agents—autonomous systems that perceive, reason, and act on behalf of human principals—are poised to transform digital markets by dramatically reducing transaction costs. ... At the market level, agents create efficiency gains from lower search, communication, and contracting costs, but also introduce frictions such as congestion and price obfuscation.",
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Status history

Audits

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