Room #210, Wylie Hall, 100 South Woodlawn Avenue, Bloomington, IN
Email: alizarif@iu.edu

I am a PhD Candidate in Economics at Indiana University. My research interests include Experimental Economics, Behavioral Macroeconomics, NLP, and Large Language Models. I study questions related to expectations and AI-human interaction. Here is my CV.

Working Papers

• Evidence on Inflation Expectations Formation Using Large Language Models (Draft)

  Presentations: ICD Departmental Seminar Series (IMF), 2024 North American Meeting of the Economic Science Association (Columbus, OH), Experimental Economics Workshop at Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN), 30th Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings (West Lafayette, IN), 5th ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (Brooklyn, NY)

Coverage: Marginal Revolution

• Simulating the Survey of Professional Forecasters (Draft)

  with Anne Lundgaard Hansen (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond), John J. Horton (MIT Sloan), Sophia Kazinnik (Stanford HAI), & Daniela Puzzello (Indiana University)

Coverage: Vice Chair for Supervision Michael S. Barr Speech * Bloomberg

• Understanding AI Agents’ Decision-Making: Evidence from Risk and Time Preference Elicitation (Draft)

  with Gajanan L Ganji (University of Texas at Arlington)

Works in Progress

• The AI Persuasion Project (Website)

A cross-disciplinary big-team science effort to study LLM capability evaluation in the context of persuasion

Publications

• Economics of ChatGPT: A Labor Market View on the Occupational Impact of Artificial Intelligence (Link)

Some Resources

• Mini-Course on Generative AI Applications : Link
• A simple code for integrating an AI chatbot powered by the OpenAI Assistants API into Qualtrics surveys. The detailed explanation can be read in the tutorial: Repository