Ahmed Tahoun

Professor Tahoun is as an Associate Professor at London Business School. Tahoun has been a research scholar at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the Wharton School, a faculty member at the London School of Economics, a research fellow at the University of Valencia, and a banker at HSBC. His research tackles important questions in society ranging from the quid-pro-quo relations between politicians and the corporate world, the economic consequences of the Egyptian Revolt, and the global development of securities law in response to corporate scandals during the past 200 years. He has also been engaged in comparative international work on executive compensation, looking for the roots of cross-country differences in pay packages. His current research agenda focuses on measuring a firm’s exposure to political risk and to technology shocks and exploring how this exposure affects firms in capital and factor markets. He has published his research in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Accounting Research, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Accounting Review and the Review of Finance. The New York Times and the FT have covered his work. Tahoun was granted the Referee of the Year award by the Journal of Accounting Research and was made a member of its editorial board. Tahoun was named as one of the Top 40 Professors under 40.

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A New Approach for Estimating Firm-Level Cyber-Risk Exposure

Article | May 22, 2023

Using computational linguistics to estimate firm-level cyber risk exposure based on quarterly earnings conference calls.

The Anatomy of Cyber Risk

Paper Working Paper | | May 2023

Does cyber risk exposure, as opposed to actual incidents, affect firm outcomes?

What Earnings Calls Tell Us About Financial Risk

Article | May 3, 2021

Analyzing corporate conference calls reveals the way that countries perceive and spread risk through the global financial system

Country Risk

Paper Working Paper Series | | May 2021

Analyzing corporate conference calls reveals the way that countries perceive and spread risk through the global financial system

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Conflicts of Interest? Maybe Congress Should Look in the Mirror

Article | Jan 11, 2017

New evidence shows personal wealth interests drive Congressional votes