econ.GN · 2026-09-28 · No. 127

General Economics, 2026-09-28.

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    PriceBench: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Price, Quality, and Brand Preferences in LLM Booking Agents

    Pavel Kireyev

    econ.GN · cs.AI · cs.CL

    LLMs increasingly act as purchasing agents, which makes the LLM, not the user, the one choosing among the options that satisfy a request; its preferences quietly fix what gets bought and what it costs. Hotel booking is a clean instance: a high-volume choice settled on a few comparable attributes, where the pick reveals those preferences. We introduce PriceBench, a diagnostic benchmark that recovers an LLM's price, quality, and brand...

    arxiv.org/abs/2609.31468 · PDF

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