Financial statement analysis with large language models

A Kim, M Muhn, V Nikolaev - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.17866, 2024 - arxiv.org
We investigate whether large language models (LLMs) can successfully perform financial
statement analysis in a way similar to a professional human analyst. We provide …

Large language models: An applied econometric framework

J Ludwig, S Mullainathan, A Rambachan - 2025 - nber.org
How can we use the novel capacities of large language models (LLMs) in empirical
research? And how can we do so while accounting for their limitations, which are …

A Survey of Large Language Models for Financial Applications: Progress, Prospects and Challenges

Y Nie, Y Kong, X Dong, JM Mulvey, HV Poor… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have unlocked novel opportunities for
machine learning applications in the financial domain. These models have demonstrated …

What Does ChatGPT Make of Historical Stock Returns? Extrapolation and Miscalibration in LLM Stock Return Forecasts

S Chen, TC Green, H Gulen, D Zhou - arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.11540, 2024 - arxiv.org
We examine how large language models (LLMs) interpret historical stock returns and
compare their forecasts with estimates from a crowd-sourced platform for ranking stocks …

AI democratization, return predictability, and trading inequality

A Chang, X Dong, X Martin, C Zhou - Available at SSRN 4543999, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
We conduct the first analysis on the impact of democratized AI (ChatGPT) on the trading
activities of investors by leveraging a dataset of long textual information spanning 19 years …

R e (Visiting) Large Lan guage Models in Finance

E Rahimikia, F Drinkall - Available at SSRN, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
This study introduces a novel suite of historical large language models (LLMs) pre-trained
specifically for accounting and finance, utilising a diverse set of major textual resources. The …

The Value of Information from Sell-side Analysts

L Lv - arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.13813, 2024 - arxiv.org
I examine the value of information from sell-side analysts by analyzing a large corpus of their
written reports. Using embeddings from state-of-the-art large language models, I show that …

Caution Ahead: Numerical Reasoning and Look-ahead Bias in AI Models

B Levy - Available at SSRN 5082861, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
Recent work within accounting and finance has highlighted that modern AI systems exhibit
superhuman performance on a variety of foundational activities within these fields. However …

Learning Fundamentals from Text

A Kim, M Muhn, VV Nikolaev… - Chicago Booth Accounting …, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
We introduce a novel approach to learning the information that investors react to when
processing textual information. We use the attention mechanism that learns to identify …

[PDF][PDF] X-raying Experts: Decomposing Predictable Mistakes in Radiology

A Shreekumar - 2025 - adviksh.com
Medical errors are consequential but difficult to study without laborious human review of past
cases. I apply algorithmic tools to measure the extent and nature of error in one of the most …