Ahmed Elnahas

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Assistant Professor of Finance

1201 W. University Dr.

College of Business and Entrep

Edinburg, TX 78539

United States

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1.

Natural Disaster Risk and Corporate Leverage

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 08 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 16 Oct 2018
Ahmed Elnahas, Dongnyoung Kim and Incheol Kim
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, California State University San Marcos and University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) (Formerly University of Texas-Pan American) - College of Business and Entrepreneurship
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Natural Disaster, Capital Structure, Leverage, Bank loan, Debt Maturity

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CEO political ideology and voluntary forward-looking disclosure

Forthcoming, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
Number of pages: 96 Posted: 21 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2024
Ahmed Elnahas, Lei Gao, Md Noman Hossain and Jeong-Bon Kim
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, George Mason University, California State University Fullerton and Simon Fraser University
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CEO Political Ideology; Management Earnings Forecasts; Conservatism; Information disclosure; Republican versus Democrat.

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CEO Political Ideology and Mergers and Acquisitions Decisions

Journal of Corporate Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 15 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 24 Apr 2017
Ahmed Elnahas and Dongnyoung Kim
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and California State University San Marcos
Downloads 325 (196,002)
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Opportunistic stock splits

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 28 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 29 Jun 2020
Ahmed Elnahas, Pankaj K. Jain and Thomas H. McInish
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, University of Memphis - Fogelman College of Business and Economics and University of Memphis - Fogelman College of Business and Economics
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CEO Marital Status and Corporate Cash Holdings

Elnahas, A., Md Noman H, and Siamak J., CEO marital status and corporate cash holdings, European Financial Management, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 27 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2023
Ahmed Elnahas, Md Noman Hossain and Siamak Javadi
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, California State University Fullerton and University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) (Formerly University of Texas-Pan American)
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Cash Holdings; Marital Status; CEO; Tobin’s Q

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Religion and Mergers and Acquisitions Contracting: The Case of Earnout Agreements

Journal of Corporate Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 30 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 30 Nov 2016
Ahmed Elnahas, M. Kabir Hassan and Ghada Ismail
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, University of New Orleans - College of Business Administration - Department of Economics and Finance and University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Downloads 251 (255,633)
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Mergers and Acquisitions, Earnout agreements, Sharia compliant finance, Earnings management, Agency cost

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Return Predictability: The Dual Signaling Hypothesis of Stock Splits

Forthcoming, The Financial Review
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 28 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 24 Dec 2018
Ahmed Elnahas, Lei Gao and Ghada Ismail
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, George Mason University and University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
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Can Machines Better Predict Insider Trading?

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Can Machines Better Predict Insider Trading?

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 23 May 2024 Last Revised: 30 May 2024
Solmaz Batebi and Ahmed Elnahas
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) (Formerly University of Texas-Pan American) and The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
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Machine learning, Insider trading, Decision analysis, Predictive modeling

Can Machines Better Predict Insider Trading?

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 15 Jul 2024
Solmaz Batebi and Ahmed Elnahas
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) (Formerly University of Texas-Pan American) and The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
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Machine learning, Insider trading, Decision analysis, Predictive modeling

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Grief or Greed: Insider trading around CEO succession

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 27 Apr 2022
Ahmed Elnahas, Ghada Ismail and Tom Martin
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and Eastern Kentucky University
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Insider Trading, CEO Succession, Announcement Returns, Managerial Ability

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House divided: Executive Political Heterogeneity and Corporate Social Responsibility

Forthcoming, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 24 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2025
Yongdong Wang and Ahmed Elnahas
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) (Formerly University of Texas-Pan American) - Robert C. Vackar College of Business & Entrepreneurship and The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
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Political Heterogeneity, Corporate Social Responsibility, Top Management Team Republican CEOs, Firm Value

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Shareholder Litigation Rights and Stock Price Crash Risk

Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol. 66, No. 101826, 2021
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 30 Apr 2021
Ivan Obaydin, Ralf Zurbruegg, Md Noman Hossain, Binay Adhikari and Ahmed Elnahas
University of Adelaide - Business School, University of Adelaide, California State University Fullerton, University of Texas at San Antonio and The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
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shareholder litigation risk, derivative lawsuits, universal demand, stock price crash risk, securities class action lawsuits, judge ideology

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Islamic labeled firms: Revisiting Dow Jones measure of compliance

Elnahas, A., Ismail, G., Elkhatib, R., and Hassan, M., Islamic labeled firms: Revising Dow Jones measure of compliance. Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. Forthcoming
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 06 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 22 Oct 2020
Ahmed Elnahas, Ghada Ismail, Rwan El-Khatib and M. Kabir Hassan
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Zayed University - College of Business and University of New Orleans - College of Business Administration - Department of Economics and Finance
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Religiosity; Islamic Finance; Corporate Social Responsibility, Agency Theory, Stakeholder Theory, Insider-Initiated Corporate Philanthropy

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Exploring the Manipulation Toolkit: The Failure of Doral Financial Corporation

Applied Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 28 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 24 Apr 2017
Ahmed Elnahas, Pankaj K. Jain and Thomas H. McInish
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, University of Memphis - Fogelman College of Business and Economics and University of Memphis - Fogelman College of Business and Economics
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Earnings Management, Fraud, Restatement, Bankruptcy

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CEO Cultural Heritage, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Firm Value

Number of pages: 92 Posted: 23 May 2024
Md Showaib Rahman Sarker and Ahmed Elnahas
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) (Formerly University of Texas-Pan American) and The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
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The Dark Side of CEO Inside Debt: Evidence from Stock Price Crash Risk

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 23 Mar 2024
Amir Gholami and Ahmed Elnahas
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) (Formerly University of Texas-Pan American) and The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
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CEO inside debt, Executive compensation, Stock price crash risk, Bad news hoarding.

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Hedging Executive Compensation Risk and the Investment Decision

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 27 Apr 2022
Ahmed Elnahas and Pawan Jain
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and West Virginia University
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CEO hedging, Mergers and Acquisitions, Risk Aversion, Firm Value

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Religion and Ratio Analysis: Towards an Islamic Corporate Liquidity Measure

Emerging Markets Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 17 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 15 Sep 2016
Ahmed Elnahas, M. Kabir Hassan and Ghada Ismail
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, University of New Orleans - College of Business Administration - Department of Economics and Finance and University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
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Islamic finance, ratio analysis, corporate liquidity, bankruptcy

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Shareholder Litigation Rights and Tax Avoidance: Evidence From Universal Demand Laws

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Shareholder Litigation Rights and Tax Avoidance: Evidence From Universal Demand Laws

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 23 May 2024
Md Noman Hossain, Ahmed Elnahas and Ghada Ismail
California State University Fullerton, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
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Shareholder Litigation Rights and Tax Avoidance: Evidence from Universal Demand Laws

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 15 Jul 2024
Md Noman Hossain, Ahmed Elnahas and Ghada Ismail
California State University Fullerton, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
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Keywords: Shareholder Litigation, Tax Avoidance, Agency Problems.

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Co-Opted Directors and Mergers and Acquisitions

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 05 Jun 2024
Fariba Gholami and Ahmed Elnahas
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) (Formerly University of Texas-Pan American) and The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
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Board co-option, mergers and acquisitions, Board of Directors

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Executive Political Diversity and Firm Innovation

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 23 May 2024 Last Revised: 30 May 2024
Yongdong Wang and Ahmed Elnahas
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) (Formerly University of Texas-Pan American) - Robert C. Vackar College of Business & Entrepreneurship and The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
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Are CEOs Different? A Re-analysis

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 06 May 2022
Chiquan Guo, Ahmed Elnahas, Md Noman Hossain and Mark Kroll
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, California State University Fullerton and University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) (Formerly University of Texas-Pan American)
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The Impact of CEO Ideology on Corporate Sustainability Performance

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 14 Dec 2024
Chiquan Guo, Md Norman Hossain, Ahmed Elnahas, Mark Kroll and xiaoyin wei
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, California State University Fullerton, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) (Formerly University of Texas-Pan American) and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Upper echelons theory, Corporate sustainability performance, Sustainable development, CEO ideology, Democratic CEO, Republican CEO

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The impact of Republican CEO ideology and political alignment on R&D spending and business performance

R&D Management 54, 3, 2024
Posted: 19 Jun 2024
Chiquan Guo, Md Noman Hossain, Mark Kroll, Ahmed Elnahas and Brandon Ater
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, California State University Fullerton, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) (Formerly University of Texas-Pan American), The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) (Formerly University of Texas-Pan American)

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Debt Heterogeneity and Corporate Risk Taking: Evidence from India

Number of pages: 48
Mithun Samanta, Ajay Kumar Mishra and Ahmed Elnahas
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur - Vinod Gupta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur - Vinod Gupta School of Management and The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
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Debt Heterogeneity, Corporate Risk Taking, IBC 2016, Governance, Agency Problem