AI Reading

This page collects papers that I have found useful for understanding the growing role of artificial intelligence in accounting, finance, economics, management, and business school education. The list will be updated regularly.

Finance

• Generative AI and asset management (Sheng, Sun, Yang, and Zhang, 2026 RFS)
• Can ChatGPT forecast stock price movements? Return predictability and large language models (Lopez-Lira and Tang, 2026 JFE)
• Generative AI and Data Quality: Implications for Productivity, Labor Displacement, and Policy (Zhifeng Cai, 2026 RFS)
• Generative AI and firm values (Eisfeldt, Schubert, Zhang, and Taska, 2026, JoF)
• Dissecting Corporate Culture Using Generative AI (Li, Mai, Feng, Yang, and Zhang, RFS 2026)
• From Man vs. Machine to Man + Machine: The art and AI of stock analyses (Cao, Jiang, Wang, and Yang, 2024 JFE)
• Artificial intelligence, firm growth, and product innovation (Babina, Fedyk, He, and Hodson, 2024 JFE)
• How Stock Market Participants Use Generative Artificial Intelligence

Accounting

• AI democratization and trading inequality (Chang, Dong, Martin, and Zhou, 2026, JAR)
• Corporate responses to generative AI: early evidence from conference calls (Jia, Li, Ma, and Xu 2026, RAST)
• Generative AI and investor processing of financial information (Blankespoor, Croom, and Grant, 2026, JAE)
• The impact of generative AI on information processing: Evidence from the ban of ChatGPT in Italy (Bertomeu, Lin, Liu, and Ni, 2025, JAE)
• Generative AI in Financial Reporting

Economics

• Generative AI at work (Brynjolfsson, Li, and Raymond, 2025 QJE)
• Scaling point-in-time language models (Kelly, Malamud, Schwab, and Xu, 2026)

Management & Marketing

• Who is AI replacing? The impact of generative AI on online freelancing platforms (Demirci, Hannane, and Zhu, 2025, MS)
• Experimental Evidence on the Productivity Effects of Generative Artificial Intelligence

Data

1. Firms’ labor exposure to GenAI (Eisfeldt et al., 2026 JoF)
2. Firm-level AI measures for US firms from 2010 through 2018 (Babina et al., 2024 JFE)

Education

1. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), a famous VC, launches 2-year college alternative. [Forbes, WSJ]
2. OpenAI launched its higher education page. [OpenAI Higher Education]