Research papers

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bloated disclosures: can generative ai help investors process financial information? [ssrn]

Alex Kim, Maximilian Muhn, and Valeri Nikolaev (2023)

Chicago Booth Working Paper, Fama-Miller Center Working Paper, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper

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We probe the economic usefulness of generative AI in summarizing complex corporate disclosures. The summaries are more effective at explaining stock market reactions to the disclosed information. We show that bloated disclosure is associated with adverse capital market consequences.

from transcripts to insights: uncovering corporate risks using generative ai [ssrn]

Alex Kim, Maximilian Muhn, and Valeri Nikolaev (2023)

Chicago Booth Working Paper, Fama-Miller Center Working Paper, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper

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We explore the value of generative AI tools in helping investors uncover dimensions of firm-level corporate risk. Using the GPT 3.5 model to generate risk summaries and assessments from the context provided by earnings call transcripts, we show that GPT-based measures possess significant information content and outperform the existing risk measures in predicting (abnormal) firm-level volatility and firms' choices such as investment and innovation.