econ.TH · 2026-07-07 · No. 46

Theoretical Economics, 2026-07-07.

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    Strategic Buying Agents

    Mingyang Fu, Ming Hu

    econ.TH · cs.AI · cs.CY · cs.GT · cs.HC

    Agentic AI is shifting online shopping from search toward delegated purchasing, where autonomous buying agents monitor markets and decide when to buy on a consumer's behalf. We study the design of such strategic buying agents, which must decide when to purchase within a finite shopping window, translating price observations, the remaining time horizon, and beliefs about future price changes into a purchase policy. We formulate this problem...

    arxiv.org/abs/2607.04708 · PDF

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