% ============================================================================ % UQO Working Paper Template — Economics / Finance % ============================================================================ \documentclass[12pt,letterpaper]{article} % --- Encoding & Language --- \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[english]{babel} % --- Page Layout --- \usepackage[ letterpaper, top=1in, bottom=1in, left=1in, right=1in ]{geometry} % --- Typography --- \usepackage{mathptmx} % Times-like font (text + math) \usepackage{microtype} % Improved typographic refinements \usepackage{setspace} \doublespacing % double line spacing (working-paper format) % --- Math --- \usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,amsthm} % --- Tables --- \usepackage{booktabs} \usepackage{tabularx} \usepackage{multirow} \usepackage{threeparttable} \usepackage{siunitx} \sisetup{ input-symbols = {()}, table-format = -1.3, parse-numbers = false } % --- Figures --- \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{subcaption} \usepackage{float} % --- Colors & Links --- \usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor} \usepackage[ colorlinks = true, linkcolor = NavyBlue, citecolor = NavyBlue, urlcolor = NavyBlue, breaklinks = true ]{hyperref} % --- Bibliography --- \usepackage[authoryear,round,semicolon]{natbib} \bibliographystyle{aer} % --- Captions --- \usepackage[ font = small, labelfont = bf, labelsep = period, justification = justified, singlelinecheck = false ]{caption} % --- Headers & Footers --- \usepackage{fancyhdr} \pagestyle{fancy} \fancyhf{} \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} \fancyfoot[C]{\thepage} % --- Section Formatting --- \usepackage{titlesec} \titleformat{\section}{\large\bfseries}{\thesection.}{0.5em}{} \titleformat{\subsection}{\normalsize\bfseries}{\thesubsection.}{0.5em}{} \titleformat{\subsubsection}{\normalsize\itshape}{\thesubsubsection.}{0.5em}{} % --- Appendix Support --- \usepackage[toc,page]{appendix} % --- Misc --- \usepackage{enumitem} \setlist{nosep,leftmargin=*} % --- Project-specific additions --- \graphicspath{{figures/}} \newcommand{\tstat}[1]{{\footnotesize(\textit{t}=#1)}} % ============================================================================ % METADATA — Edit these fields for each working paper % ============================================================================ \newcommand{\WPnumber}{2026-03} \newcommand{\WPtitle}{Does the Language of Artificial Intelligence Move Markets?} \newcommand{\WPsubtitle}{A Semantic Analysis of S\&P~500 SEC Filings and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns, 2010--2026} \newcommand{\WPdate}{June 2026} \newcommand{\WPversion}{1.0} \newcommand{\WPabstract}{% We construct a \emph{semantic} measure of artificial-intelligence (AI) engagement for every S\&P~500 firm by embedding the text of its annual SEC filings (Form~10-K) with a sentence transformer and scoring each passage by cosine similarity to curated AI ``anchor'' concepts: internal AI adoption, AI infrastructure exposure, and AI product-disruption risk. Linking these scores to monthly equity prices from Yahoo Finance and to the Fama--French factor data, we assemble a panel of 7{,}869 firm-years (500 firms, fiscal years 2010--2026) and ask whether the intensity of AI language predicts the cross-section of subsequent returns. Our central result is \emph{conditional and economically large}: over the full sample the relation is positive but modest and only marginally significant, yet after the launch of ChatGPT (November~2022) it more than sextuples. The spread between the top and bottom quintile of AI disclosure rises from $+2.4$ percentage points per year before 2022 to $+14.6$ points afterward, and the long--short Sharpe ratio rises from 0.15 to 1.33. The break survives section-weighting choices, alternative signal definitions and horizons, dimension reduction, and the exclusion of the ``Magnificent~7'' mega-caps. Three identification tests sharpen the interpretation: (i)~a placebo across five non-AI semantic factors shows the post-2022 jump is specific to AI (ESG and climate disclosure earn \emph{negative} post-2022 spreads); (ii)~a market-model event study finds that firms with higher pre-event AI disclosure earned $+10.1\%$ higher cumulative abnormal returns over the year after ChatGPT ($t=1.97$); and (iii)~the effect is absorbed by firm fixed effects and roughly halved by sector fixed effects. We interpret the evidence as an attention- and narrative-driven \emph{re-rating}: the market repriced which firms and sectors are AI-exposed once AI became salient, rather than rewarding year-to-year changes in wording.% } \newcommand{\WPkeywords}{textual analysis, sentence embeddings, artificial intelligence, disclosure, cross-section of returns, investor attention, event study} \newcommand{\WPjel}{G12, G14, G17, M41, O33} % --- Authors --- \newcommand{\WPauthor}{% \begin{tabular}{c} {\large Manel Kammoun}\\[-0.05cm] {\small\href{mailto:manel.kammoun@uqo.ca}{manel.kammoun@uqo.ca}}\\[0.35cm] {\large Djerrycharli Tandjambianda}\\[-0.05cm] {\small\href{mailto:djerrycharli.tandjambianda@uqo.ca}{djerrycharli.tandjambianda@uqo.ca}}\\[0.35cm] {\large Simon-Pierre Boucher}\\[-0.05cm] {\small\href{mailto:simon-pierre.boucher@uqo.ca}{simon-pierre.boucher@uqo.ca}} \end{tabular}% } \newcommand{\WPaffiliation}{% Département des sciences administratives\\ Université du Québec en Outaouais% } \newcommand{\WPemail}{} \newcommand{\WPaddress}{% Gatineau -- Pavillon Alexandre-Taché\\ 283, boulevard Alexandre-Taché\\ Gatineau, Québec, Canada J9A 1L8% } % ============================================================================ % DOCUMENT % ============================================================================ \begin{document} % --- Title Page --- \input{sections/titlepage} % --- Main Body --- \input{sections/introduction} \input{sections/literature} \input{sections/data} \input{sections/methodology} \input{sections/results} \input{sections/robustness} \input{sections/discussion} \input{sections/conclusion} % --- References --- \newpage \bibliography{references} % --- Appendix --- \input{appendix/appendix} \end{document}