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Stable Menus of Public Goods: AI-Enabled Progress

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arXiv:2606. 16989v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Using an open problem from the EC 2025 paper "Stable Menus of Public Goods" as a testbed, we conduct experiments to understand the effectiveness of different AI-for-EconCS research workflows.

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