From Clerks to Agentic-AI: How will Technology Change Labor Market in Finance?
从职员到智能体人工智能:技术将如何改变金融业劳动力市场?
Financial firms have gone through three major technological waves: computerization in the 1980s and 1990s, the rise of indexing and passive investing in the 2000s and 2010s, and the AI and automation wave from roughly 2015 to the present. This project studies how much labor is required to manage capital across those waves by tracking a simple productivity measure: assets under management per employee. Using a small panel of representative firms, we compare changes in AUM per…