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The paper is authored by researchers at MIT and Harvard, dated September 16, 2025, and examines AI agents as market participants transacting in digital marketplaces. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: The Coasean Singularity? Demand, Supply, and Market Design with AI Agents (NBER conference paper) · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:a2701355d1acc4666d1367bb76b327b1d327dae6e934e5dcf4432ab2dd257bb0

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Peyman Shahidi Gili Rusak Benjamin S. Manning, MIT Harvard MIT, Andrey Fradkin John J. Horton, BU & MIT IDE MIT & NBER, September 16, 2025. Abstract: This paper examines the transformative economic implications of AI agents -- autonomous software systems that can perceive, reason, and act in digital environments to achieve goals on behalf of human principals. We focus on their role as market participants, capable of executing tasks such as search, negotiation, and communication, and of transacting directly in digital marketplaces.

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