{"title":"Artificial intelligence and corporate investment efficiency: Evidence from China","authors":"Liangcheng Wang, Yizheng Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101314","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Artificial intelligence technology provides new solutions to management problems and plays an important role in investment decision-making. In this study, we explore the effect of artificial intelligence on corporate investment. Using a sample from China, we find that artificial intelligence improves corporate investment efficiency by enhancing internal control and ESG performance. This finding is particularly pronounced in firms with high artificial intelligence application proficiency and without state ownership. Finally, our findings demonstrate that AI could influence corporate investment decisions, encouraging firms to engage in risky investment behaviours. Our findings have implications for firms to adopt artificial intelligence to optimise investment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47886,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Review","volume":"68 ","pages":"Article 101314"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6000,"publicationDate":"2025-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Emerging Markets Review","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1566014125000639","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"BUSINESS, FINANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Artificial intelligence technology provides new solutions to management problems and plays an important role in investment decision-making. In this study, we explore the effect of artificial intelligence on corporate investment. Using a sample from China, we find that artificial intelligence improves corporate investment efficiency by enhancing internal control and ESG performance. This finding is particularly pronounced in firms with high artificial intelligence application proficiency and without state ownership. Finally, our findings demonstrate that AI could influence corporate investment decisions, encouraging firms to engage in risky investment behaviours. Our findings have implications for firms to adopt artificial intelligence to optimise investment.
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The intent of the editors is to consolidate Emerging Markets Review as the premier vehicle for publishing high impact empirical and theoretical studies in emerging markets finance. Preference will be given to comparative studies that take global and regional perspectives, detailed single country studies that address critical policy issues and have significant global and regional implications, and papers that address the interactions of national and international financial architecture. We especially welcome papers that take institutional as well as financial perspectives.