Ahmed Tahoun

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Corporate Scandals and Regulation

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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

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

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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
Michael J. Jung, James P. Naughton, Ahmed Tahoun and Clare Wang
University of Delaware - Accounting & MIS, 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
Michael J. Jung, James P. Naughton, Ahmed Tahoun and Clare Wang
University of Delaware - Accounting & MIS, 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

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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
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
Tarek A. Hassan, Stephan Hollander, Ahmed Tahoun and Laurence van Lent
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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Firm-Level Exposure to Epidemic Diseases: COVID-19, SARS, and H1N1

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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
Tarek A. Hassan, Stephan Hollander, Laurence van Lent, Markus Schwedeler and Ahmed Tahoun
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
Tarek A. Hassan, Stephan Hollander, Laurence van Lent and Ahmed Tahoun
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
Tarek A. Hassan, Stephan Hollander, Laurence van Lent and Ahmed Tahoun
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
Tarek A. Hassan, Stephan Hollander, Ahmed Tahoun and Laurence van Lent
Boston University, Tilburg University - Tilburg School of Economics and Management, London Business School and Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
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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
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Financial Crisis, Politicians, Investments, Personal Wealth, Voting, Government Intervention

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Firm-level Political Risk and Credit Markets

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Firm-level Political Risk and Credit Markets

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 12 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 02 Aug 2022
Mahmoud Gad, Valeri V. Nikolaev, Ahmed Tahoun and Laurence van Lent
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
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 18 Jul 2022
Mahmoud Gad, Valeri V. Nikolaev, Ahmed Tahoun and Laurence van Lent
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

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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 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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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 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
Nicholas Bloom, Tarek A. Hassan, Aakash Kalyani, Josh Lerner and Ahmed Tahoun
Stanford University - Department of Economics, Boston University, Boston University, Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and London Business School
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Technology, Geography, Employment, Innovation, R&D

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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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Is Firm-Level Political Exposure Priced?

TRR 266 Accounting for Transparency Working Paper Series No. 9
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 13 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 04 Aug 2021
Evgenii Gorbatikov, Laurence van Lent, Narayan Y. Naik, Varun Sharma and Ahmed Tahoun
London Business School, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting, Nanyang Business School and London Business School
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Political Risk, Asset Pricing, Political Donations, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning

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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, 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&Apos;S Arab Spring

NBER Working Paper No. w20665
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 10 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 20 Jun 2021
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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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
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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
Tarek A. Hassan, Jesse Schreger, Markus Schwedeler and Ahmed Tahoun
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

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The Global Impact of Brexit Uncertainty

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The Global Impact of Brexit Uncertainty

TRR 266 Accounting for Transparency Working Paper Series No. 11
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 23 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 04 Aug 2021
Tarek A. Hassan, Stephan Hollander, Laurence van Lent and Ahmed Tahoun
Boston University, Tilburg University - Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management and London Business School
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Brexit, uncertainty, sentiment, machine learning, 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
Tarek A. Hassan, Laurence van Lent, Stephan Hollander and Ahmed Tahoun
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

TRR 266 Accounting for Transparency Working Paper Series No. 11
Number of pages: 92 Posted: 06 May 2021 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2022
Tarek A. Hassan, Stephan Hollander, Laurence van Lent and Ahmed Tahoun
Boston University, Tilburg University - Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management and London Business School
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Brexit, uncertainty, sentiment, text-as-data, cross-country effects

The Global Impact of Brexit Uncertainty

NBER Working Paper No. w26609
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 06 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 16 Sep 2022
Tarek A. Hassan, Stephan Hollander, Laurence van Lent and Ahmed Tahoun
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
Tarek A. Hassan, Stephan Hollander, Ahmed Tahoun and Laurence van Lent
Boston University, Tilburg University - Tilburg School of Economics and Management, London Business School and Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
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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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The Diffusion of Disruptive Technologies

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The Diffusion of Disruptive Technologies

Number of pages: 87 Posted: 13 Jul 2021
Nicholas Bloom, Tarek A. Hassan, Aakash Kalyani, Josh Lerner and Ahmed Tahoun
Stanford University - Department of Economics, Boston University, Boston University, Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and London Business School
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Technology, Geography, Employment, Innovation, R&D

The Diffusion of Disruptive Technologies

NBER Working Paper No. w28999
Number of pages: 104 Posted: 05 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 26 Sep 2022
Nicholas Bloom, Tarek A. Hassan, Aakash Kalyani, Josh Lerner and Ahmed Tahoun
Stanford University - Department of Economics, Boston University, Boston University, Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and London Business School
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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
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Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, US Congress members, Financial Institutions

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Firm-Level Political Risk: Measurement and Effects

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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
Tarek A. Hassan, Stephan Hollander, Laurence van Lent and Ahmed Tahoun
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
Tarek A. Hassan, Stephan Hollander, Laurence van Lent and Ahmed Tahoun
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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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
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U.S. Congress Members, Finance Committee, Personal Debt, Information Disclosure

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The Anatomy of Cyber Risk

NBER Working Paper No. w28906
Number of pages: 90 Posted: 14 Jun 2021 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2022
Rustam Jamilov, Hélène Rey and Ahmed Tahoun
London Business School, London Business School and London Business School
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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
Tarek A. Hassan, Jesse Schreger, Markus Schwedeler and Ahmed Tahoun
Boston University, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Economics, 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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