Ahmed Tahoun

London Business School

Sussex Place

Regent's Park

London, London NW1 4SA

United Kingdom

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

25

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871

Scholarly Papers (25)

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Citation 38

Corporate Scandals and Regulation

European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 367/2017
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 02 May 2017 Last Revised: 15 Aug 2018
Luzi Hail, Ahmed Tahoun and Clare Wang
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, London Business School and University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business
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Accounting fraud, Corporate scandals, Capital market regulation, Economics of regulation, Law and finance, International accounting

Corporate Scandals and Regulation

Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series No. 71
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 09 Aug 2018
Luzi Hail, Ahmed Tahoun and Clare Wang
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, London Business School and University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business
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Accounting fraud, Corporate scandals, Capital market regulation, Economics of regulation, Law and finance, International accounting

Corporate Scandals and Regulation

Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 56, No. 2, 2018
Posted: 02 Aug 2018
Luzi Hail, Ahmed Tahoun and Clare Wang
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, London Business School and University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business

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accounting fraud; corporate scandals; capital market regulation; economics of regulation; law and finance; international accounting

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

The Accounting Review, July 2018, Vol. 93, No. 4, pp. 225-252.
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 01 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 08 Aug 2018
University of Delaware - Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, University of Virginia, Darden School of Business, London Business School and University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business
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Twitter, social media, strategic dissemination, strategic disclosure

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

The Accounting Review, July 2018, Vol. 93, No. 4, pp. 225-252.
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 28 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2019
University of Delaware - Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, University of Virginia, Darden School of Business, London Business School and University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business
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Twitter, social media, strategic dissemination, strategic disclosure

Firm-Level Exposure to Epidemic Diseases: COVID-19, SARS, and H1N1

TRR 266 Accounting for Transparency Working Paper Series No. 24
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 02 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 17 Sep 2022
Boston University, Tilburg University - Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Boston University and London Business School
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Macroeconomic shocks, epidemic diseases, firms, uncertainty, sentiment, computational linguistics

Firm-Level Exposure to Epidemic Diseases: COVID-19, SARS, and H1N1

Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series No. 119 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.36687/inetwp119
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 03 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2020
Boston University, Tilburg University - Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management and London Business School
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Epidemic diseases, pandemic, exposure, virus, firms, uncertainty, sentiment, machine learning

Firm-Level Exposure to Epidemic Diseases: Covid-19, Sars, and H1n1

NBER Working Paper No. w26971
Number of pages: 83 Posted: 13 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 24 Sep 2022
Boston University, Tilburg University - Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management and London Business School
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Firm-Level Exposure to Epidemic Diseases: Covid-19, Sars, and H1n1

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14573
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 08 May 2020 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2020
Boston University, Tilburg University - Tilburg School of Economics and Management, London Business School and Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
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Citation 249

Firm-Level Political Risk: Measurement and Effects

Number of pages: 79 Posted: 28 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 19 Dec 2017
Boston University, Tilburg University - Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management 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: 91 Posted: 17 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 10 Jun 2019
Boston University, Tilburg University - Tilburg School of Economics and Management, London Business School and Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
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firm-level, Lobbying, Political uncertainty, quantification

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Citation 37

Firm-level Political Risk and Credit Markets

Journal of Accounting & Economics (JAE), Vol. 77, No. 1, 2024
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 12 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 06 Sep 2023
Lancaster University - Lancaster University Management School, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, London Business School and Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
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credit markets; political risk; financial institutions; earnings calls

Firm-Level Political Risk and Credit Markets

TRR 266 Accounting for Transparency Working Paper Series No. 87, Journal of Accounting & Economics (JAE), Vol. 77, No. 1, 2024
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 18 Jul 2022 Last Revised: 07 Sep 2023
Lancaster University - Lancaster University Management School, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, London Business School and Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
Downloads 375 (168,307)
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credit markets, political risk, financial institutions, earnings calls

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

Review of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 14 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 06 May 2018
Ahmed Tahoun and Laurence van Lent
London Business School and Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
Downloads 1,657 (23,470)
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Financial Crisis, Politicians, Investments, Personal Wealth, Voting, Government Intervention

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Is Firm-Level Political Exposure Priced?

TRR 266 Accounting for Transparency Working Paper Series No. 9
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 13 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2023
London Business School, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting, Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Finance and London Business School
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Political Risk, Asset Pricing, Political Donations, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning

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Citation 6

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 Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School 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 Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School 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 Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business

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

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Citation 19

The Diffusion of New Technologies

Harvard Business School Entrepreneurial Management Working Paper No. 21-144
Number of pages: 103 Posted: 13 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 02 Aug 2024
Stanford University - Department of Economics, Boston University, Federal Reserve Banks - Research Division, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and London Business School
Downloads 573 (101,398)
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Geography, Employment, Innovation, R&D

The Diffusion of New Technologies

NBER Working Paper No. w28999
Number of pages: 102 Posted: 05 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2023
Stanford University - Department of Economics, Boston University, Federal Reserve Banks - Research Division, Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and London Business School
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The Diffusion of New Technologies

Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series No. 222
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 02 Oct 2024
Federal Reserve Banks - Research Division, Stanford University - Department of Economics, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Boston University, Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and London Business School
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The Geography of New Technologies

Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series No. 126
https://doi.org/10.36687/inetwp126
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 13 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 14 Aug 2020
Stanford University - Department of Economics, Boston University, Federal Reserve Banks - Research Division, Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and London Business School
Downloads 796 (67,275)
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Technology, Geography, Employment, Innovation, R&D

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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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Citation 26

The Global Impact of Brexit Uncertainty

TRR 266 Accounting for Transparency Working Paper Series No. 11
Number of pages: 92 Posted: 06 May 2021 Last Revised: 20 Mar 2023
Boston University, Tilburg University - Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management and London Business School
Downloads 523 (113,735)
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Brexit, uncertainty, sentiment, text-as-data, cross-country effects

The Global Impact of Brexit Uncertainty

Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series No. 106
https://doi.org/10.36687/inetwp106
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 17 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 14 Aug 2020
Boston University, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Tilburg University - Tilburg School of Economics and Management and London Business School
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Brexit, uncertainty, sentiment, machine learning, cross-country effects

The Global Impact of Brexit Uncertainty

NBER Working Paper No. w26609
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 06 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 17 Mar 2023
Boston University, Tilburg University - Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management and London Business School
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The Global Impact of Brexit Uncertainty

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14253
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 14 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2021
Boston University, Tilburg University - Tilburg School of Economics and Management, London Business School and Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
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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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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: 05 May 2018
Luzi Hail, Ahmed Tahoun and Clare Wang
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, London Business School and University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business
Downloads 550 (108,120)
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Accounting fraud, Corporate scandals, Capital market regulation, Economics of regulation, Law and finance, International accounting

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Country Risk

Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series No. 157, 2021
https://doi.org/10.36687/inetwp157
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 07 May 2021
Boston University, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Economics, Boston University and London Business School
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country risk, contagion, investment, employment, textual analysis, earnings calls

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, Boston University 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 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2023
Daron Acemoglu, Tarek A. Hassan and Ahmed Tahoun
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Boston University 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, Boston University 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 Anatomy of Cyber Risk

Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series No. 206
Number of pages: 87 Posted: 07 Jun 2023
Rustam Jamilov, Hélène Rey and Ahmed Tahoun
All Souls College, London Business School and London Business School
Downloads 325 (197,060)

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Cyber risk, textual analysis, earnings calls

The Anatomy of Cyber Risk

NBER Working Paper No. w28906
Number of pages: 91 Posted: 14 Jun 2021 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2022
Rustam Jamilov, Hélène Rey and Ahmed Tahoun
All Souls College, London Business School and London Business School
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Biased Executives

TRR 266 Accounting for Transparency Working Paper Series No. 116
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 24 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2023
Ahmed Tahoun, Laurence van Lent and Menghan Zhu
London Business School, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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Biased hires, contracting, employee selection

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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 The 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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Citation 226

Firm-Level Political Risk: Measurement and Effects

NBER Working Paper No. w24029
Number of pages: 88 Posted: 20 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 27 Feb 2022
Boston University, Tilburg University - Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management and London Business School
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Firm-Level Political Risk: Measurement and Effects

Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series No. 96
Number of pages: 88 Posted: 15 Jul 2019
Boston University, Tilburg University - Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management and London Business School
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Political uncertainty, quantification, firm-level, lobbying

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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: 48 Posted: 01 Dec 2016
Ahmed Tahoun and Laurence van Lent
London Business School and Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
Downloads 116 (511,014)
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Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, US Congress members, Financial Institutions

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Sources and Transmission of Country Risk

NBER Working Paper No. w29526
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 29 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2022
Boston University, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Economics, Boston University and London Business School
Downloads 93 (597,729)
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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: 22 Feb 2022
Ahmed Tahoun and Florin P. Vasvari
London Business School and London Business School
Downloads 91 (605,874)
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U.S. Congress Members, Finance Committee, Personal Debt, Information Disclosure

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Economic Surveillance Using Corporate Text

NBER Working Paper No. w33158
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 19 Nov 2024
Boston University, Tilburg University, Federal Reserve Banks - Research Division, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Boston University and London Business School
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The Anatomy of Cyber Risk

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP16217
Number of pages: 92 Posted: 14 Jul 2021
Rustam Jamilov, Hélène Rey and Ahmed Tahoun
London Business School, London Business School and London Business School
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