AI RESEARCH
The Ideation Bottleneck: Decomposing the Quality Gap Between AI-Generated and Human Economics Research
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2604.03338v1 Announce Type: cross Autonomous AI systems can now generate complete economics research papers, but they substantially underperform human-authored publications in head-to-head comparisons. This paper decomposes the quality gap into two independent components: research idea quality and execution quality.