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Guardrails Make the Researcher: What an AI Agent Got Right (And Wrong) Replicating Nine Equity Anomalies
Read more →: Guardrails Make the Researcher: What an AI Agent Got Right (And Wrong) Replicating Nine Equity AnomaliesAn autonomous AI research agent was tasked with replicating nine published U.S. equity anomalies on clean, survivorship-free data. On a faithful build, none survive out-of-sample — and the lone apparent survivor turned out to be the agent’s own construction error. The real lesson is that an AI researcher is only as trustworthy as the guardrails…
How Wise is the Crowd? Bias and Edge in Prediction Markets
Read more →: How Wise is the Crowd? Bias and Edge in Prediction MarketsUsing tick-level data from Polymarket and Kalshi, this study finds the classic favorite-longshot bias is largely a ‘Yes Bias,’ that the most capitalized traders systematically underperform smaller ones, and that the most vocal participants add no informational edge. It offers a reproducible method for denoising prediction-market probabilities.
The Broken Bond Market
Read more →: The Broken Bond MarketValued at around $10 trillion, the U.S. corporate bond market is slow, expensive, and inefficient. This Article argues that the bond market – premised on contract – rests on a flawed regulatory design that delivers neither investor protection nor market quality.