4 papers
How Do Agent Harnesses Create Value? Planning Information and Release Control in Stateful LLM Agents
Yukun Zhang, Kemu Xu, Yishen Chen
Agent harnesses supply planning guidance, organize execution, and check completion. We study how these components affect success, erroneous acceptance, and cost in two Retail exper…
The Organization of Inference: Information, Resource Constraints, and AI Production
Yukun Zhang, Kemu Xu, Yishen Chen
The economic value of inference depends on how capacity and task information are distributed across stages of AI production. We study these organizational margins using controlled…
Welfare-Opaque Income: Taxation under AI-Agent Delegation
Yukun Zhang, Kemu Xu, Yishen Chen
We study income taxation when an AI agent implements economically relevant choices through a rule hidden from the government. Alongside unobserved productive ability, this hidden p…
Delegation Rights: Property, Agency, and Investment Incentives in the Age of AI Agents
Yukun Zhang, Kemu Xu
AI agents increasingly operate inside digital accounts by exercising privileges that users already hold, raising a new control question: whether an existing account entitlement mus…