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When AI Agents Become Economic Agents: An Agentic General Equilibrium Theory

Simon-Pierre Boucher · UQO Working Papers · October 2026 · v1.0

Households and firms are beginning to delegate economic decisions to autonomous agents built on a few shared foundation models. This paper studies what this does in general equilibrium. A human's decision error is idiosyncratic and averages out; an AI agent's error is common to every principal that uses the same…

VQuant: An Agentic Large Language Model Architecture for Automated Quantitative Financial Analysis and Document Generation

Reasoning-Augmented Tool Orchestration, In-Loop Numerical Computation, and Multi-Format Reporting

Simon-Pierre Boucher · UQO Working Papers · October 2026 · v1.1

Large language models write fluently about finance, but fluency does not make a number correct, current, or reproducible. This paper is a design-science description of VQuant, a deployed web platform that couples a reasoning-capable LLM with a deterministic execution substrate so that a natural-language request…