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Ahmed Tahoun

London Business School

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Regent's Park

London, London NW1 4SA

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1.

The Personal Wealth Interests of Politicians and Government Intervention in the Economy

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 14 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 26 Aug 2013
Ahmed Tahoun and Laurence van Lent
London Business School and Frankfurt School of Finance & Management gemeinnützige GmbH - Accounting Department
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Financial Crisis, Politicians, Investments, Personal Wealth, Voting, Government Intervention

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Firm-Level Political Risk: Measurement and Effects

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Firm-Level Political Risk: Measurement and Effects

Number of pages: 79 Posted: 28 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 19 Dec 2017
Tarek A. Hassan, Stephan Hollander, Laurence van Lent and Ahmed Tahoun
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Tilburg University - Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management gemeinnützige GmbH - Accounting Department and London Business School
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Political uncertainty, quantification, firm-level, lobbying

Firm-Level Political Risk: Measurement and Effects

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP12436
Number of pages: 81 Posted: 17 Nov 2017
Tarek A. Hassan, Stephan Hollander, Ahmed Tahoun and Laurence van Lent
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Tilburg University - Tilburg School of Economics and Management, London Business School and Frankfurt School of Finance & Management gemeinnützige GmbH - Accounting Department
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firm-level, Lobbying, Political uncertainty, quantification

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Dividend Payouts and Information Shocks

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Dividend Payouts and Information Shocks

European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 409/2014
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 06 May 2013 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2014
Luzi Hail, Ahmed Tahoun and Clare Wang
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, London Business School and University of Iowa - Tippie College of Business
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Dividend policy, Payout policy, International accounting, Information environment, IFRS, Insider trading laws

Dividend Payouts and Information Shocks

Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 403-456, 2014
Posted: 14 Apr 2014
Luzi Hail, Ahmed Tahoun and Clare Wang
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, London Business School and University of Iowa - Tippie College of Business

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Dividend policy, Payout policy, International accounting, Information environment, IFRS, Insider trading laws

Dividend Payouts and Information Shocks

Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 52, No. 2, 2014
Posted: 10 Sep 2014
Luzi Hail, Ahmed Tahoun and Clare Wang
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, London Business School and University of Iowa - Tippie College of Business

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Dividend policy, Payout policy, International accounting, Information environment, IFRS, Insider trading laws

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The Role of Stock Ownership by US Members of Congress on the Market for Political Favors

AFA 2011 Denver Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 81 Posted: 19 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2014
Ahmed Tahoun
London Business School
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Portfolio choice; Politics of financial markets; Government contracts; Politicians–firms relation; Investment by politicians

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The Power of the Street: Evidence from Egypt's Arab Spring

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The Power of the Street: Evidence from Egypt's Arab Spring

Fama-Miller Working Paper
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 26 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2016
Daron Acemoglu, Tarek A. Hassan and Ahmed Tahoun
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and London Business School
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corruption, de facto political power, institutions, mobilization, protests, rents, value of connections

The Power of the Street: Evidence from Egypt's Arab Spring

NBER Working Paper No. w20665
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 10 Nov 2014
Daron Acemoglu, Tarek A. Hassan and Ahmed Tahoun
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and London Business School
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The Power of the Street: Evidence from Egypt's Arab Spring

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP10262
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 24 Nov 2014
Daron Acemoglu, Tarek A. Hassan and Ahmed Tahoun
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and London Business School
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corruption, de facto political power, institutions, mobilization, protests, rents, value of connections

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The Influence of Conditional Conservatism on Ownership Dispersion: An International Analysis

Revista Española de Financiación y Contabilidad, Forthcoming,
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 26 Dec 2012
Begoña Giner, Ahmed Tahoun and Martin Walker
University of Valencia, London Business School and University of Manchester - Manchester Business School
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Conditional conservatism, Asymmetric reporting, Ownership diversification, Diversification opportunities, Governance and information problems

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Do Common Inherited Beliefs and Values Influence CEO Pay?

Journal of Accounting & Economics, 2017, 64 (2-3), 346-367
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 26 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 21 Nov 2017
Atif Ellahie, Ahmed Tahoun and A. Irem Tuna
University of Utah - David Eccles School of Business, London Business School and London Business School
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Executive compensation, CEO characteristics, ethnicity, cultural persistence

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Firm-Level Political Risk: Measurement and Effects

NBER Working Paper No. w24029
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 20 Nov 2017
Tarek Alexander Hassan, Stephan Hollander, Laurence van Lent and Ahmed Tahoun
Boston University, Tilburg University - Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management gemeinnützige GmbH - Accounting Department and London Business School
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Corporate Scandals and Regulation

European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 367/2017
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 02 May 2017 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2017
Luzi Hail, Ahmed Tahoun and Clare Wang
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, London Business School and University of Iowa - Tippie College of Business
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Accounting fraud, Corporate scandals, Capital market regulation, Economics of regulation, Law and finance, International accounting

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Corporate Scandals and Regulation: Appendix on Data Collection for Historical Time-Series from 1800 to 2015

Number of pages: 175 Posted: 01 May 2017 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2017
Luzi Hail, Ahmed Tahoun and Clare Wang
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, London Business School and University of Iowa - Tippie College of Business
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Accounting fraud, Corporate scandals, Capital market regulation, Economics of regulation, Law and finance, International accounting

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The Personal Wealth Interests of Politicians and the Stabilization of Financial Markets

Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series No. 52
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 01 Dec 2016
Ahmed Tahoun and Laurence van Lent
London Business School and Frankfurt School of Finance & Management gemeinnützige GmbH - Accounting Department
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Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, US Congress members, Financial Institutions

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Political Lending

Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series No. 47
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 05 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 23 Aug 2016
Ahmed Tahoun and Florin P. Vasvari
London Business School and London Business School
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U.S. Congress members, Finance Committee, Personal Debt, Information disclosure

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Purchasing Power

Business Strategy Review, Vol. 25, Issue 1, pp. 7-7, 2014
Number of pages: 1 Posted: 27 Feb 2014
Ahmed Tahoun
London Business School
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Do Firms Strategically Disseminate? Evidence from Corporate Use of Social Media

The Accounting Review, Vol. 93, No. 4, July 2018
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 28 Jul 2017
Michael J. Jung, James P. Naughton, Ahmed Tahoun and Clare Wang
New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, London Business School and University of Iowa - Tippie College of Business
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Twitter, social media, strategic dissemination, strategic disclosure

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Do Firms Strategically Disseminate? Evidence from Corporate Use of Social Media

The Accounting Review, Vol. 93, No. 4, July 2018
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 01 Apr 2015
Michael J. Jung, James P. Naughton, Ahmed Tahoun and Clare Wang
New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, London Business School and University of Iowa - Tippie College of Business
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Twitter, social media, strategic dissemination, strategic disclosure