BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250623T202550EDT-59041WKu4o@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250624T002550Z DESCRIPTION:Xiumin Martin\n\nProfessor of Accounting\n Olin Business School\ , Washington University in Saint louis\n\nAI (ChatGPT) Democratization\, R eturn Predictability\, and Trading Inequality\n\nDate: Friday\, March 21\, 2025\n Time: 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM\n Location: Bronfman building\, Room 046\n \n\nAbstract\n\nWe present the first analysis of democratized AI’s (ChatGP T) role in investors’ trading activities\, leveraging a 19-year dataset of earnings call transcripts\, featuring extensive textual information. We h ave five key results. First\, we develop a long-text (average 7\,000 words ) AI-sentiment measure that preserves full transcript context. AI-sentimen t predicts returns of 1% per month\, persisting 12 months\, while human-di ctionary - based (HD) sentiment shows little or negative predictive power. Second\, over the prolonged period preceding ChatGPT’s wide-deployment\, short sellers had already been trading in alignment with AI-sentiment foll owing earnings calls\, while retail traders had not. Post-deployment\, ret ail traders’ alignment increases up to 23-fold\, while short sellers’ alig nment can diminish. Third\, stocks with higher retail-AI alignment witness significant bid-ask spread reductions. Fourth\, exogenous ChatGPT outages notably reduce retail-AI alignment and reverse bid-ask spread improvement s. Fifth\, AI-sentiment provides investors with long-term return insights by leveraging long-text context and discerning between genuinely and exces sively positive HD-sentiment. These findings suggest that in an era of dem ocratizing information access and proliferating big data\, democratizing A I—the tools for analyzing information—is crucial to leveling the playing f ield between privileged and ordinary investors.\n DTSTART:20250321T143000Z DTEND:20250321T160000Z LOCATION:Room 046\, Bronfman Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1G5\, 1001 rue Sherbrooke Ouest SUMMARY:Accounting Academic Area Workshop Series: Xiumin Martin URL:/desautels/channels/event/accounting-academic-area -workshop-series-xiumin-martin-364259 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR