AI RESEARCH
Strategic Exploitation in LLM Agent Markets: A Simulation Framework for E-Commerce Trust
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2605.10059v1 Announce Type: new Agent-based modeling (ABM) has long been used in economics to study human behavior, and large language model (LLM) agents now enable new forms of social and economic simulation. While prior work has discovered strategic deception by LLM agents in financial trading and auction markets, e-commerce remains underexplored despite its distinctive information asymmetry: sellers privately observe product quality, whereas buyers rely on advertised claims and reputation signals. We.