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Associate Professor of Accounting
PhD (MBS)
Professor Tahoun is a tenured Associate Professor at London Business School. Tahoun was named as one of the Top 40 Professors under 40. He 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.
The current focus of Tahoun’s research is on "Text as Data." In particular, he develops methodologies to convert raw text into actionable data. These methods can predict the impact of systemic shocks, whether political events or global pandemics, and create firm-level metrics for various issues like cyber-security risk, inflation, and climate change. He adapts techniques from computational linguistics to construct data sets valuable for policymakers. These can be used to monitor country risk and sentiment, analyse risk transmission during crises, measure the risks, costs, and opportunities firms associate with specific shocks and policies, and compare impacts attributed to different sources.
Tahoun’s research also tackles important questions in society, ranging from the quid-pro-quo relations between politicians and the corporate world, the economic consequences of revolutions, 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. Furthermore, Tahoun researches and publishes work on the economic outcomes of transparency. These studies aim to understand the impact of information provision and dissemination and question if more information always leads to better outcomes.
Tahoun has published his research in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Finance, 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 Economist, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times have covered his work. In the classroom, Tahoun teaches the MBA programme, and he delivers a course on managerial accounting tools and another course on organisational designs. Tahoun is currently an associate editor at the Journal of Accounting Research. He has been the recipient of ten consecutive grants from the prestigious Institute of New Economic Thinking; he has twice received LBS’s faculty research award; he was granted the Referee of the Year award by the Journal of Accounting Research and was made a member of its editorial board.
Tahoun did his doctoral training at six institutions in five countries: the Wharton School and Chicago Booth in the US, the London School of Economics and the University of Manchester in the UK, Tilburg University in the Netherlands, the University of Valencia in Spain, and Cairo University in Egypt.
2023
Hassan T A; Hollander S; Tahoun A; van Lent L
Review of Financial Studies 2023 In Press
Gad M; Nikolaev V; Tahoun A; van Lent A
Journal of Accounting and Economics 2023 In Press
Hassan T A; Schreger J; Schwedeler M; Tahoun A
Review of Economic Studies 2023 In Press
Hassan T A; van Lent L; Hollander S; Tahoun A
Journal of Finance 2023 Accepted
2019
Hassan T; Hollander S; van Lent L; Tahoun A
Quarterly Journal of Economics 2019 November Vol 134:4 p 2145-2202
Tahoun A; Van Lent L
Review of Finance 2019 Vol 23:1 p 34-74
2018
Hail L; Tahoun A; Wang C
Journal of Accounting Research 2018 Vol 56:2 p 617-671
Jung M J; Naughton J P; Tahoun A; Wang C
Accounting Review 2018 Vol 93:4 p 225-252
Acemoglu D; Hassan T A; Tahoun A
Review of Financial Studies 2018 Vol 31:1 p 1-42
2017
Ellahie A; Tahoun A; Tuna I
Journal of Accounting and Economics 2017 Vol 64:2-3 p 346-367
2014
Hail L; Tahoun A; Wang C
Journal of Accounting Research 2014 Vol 52:2 p 403-456
Tahoun A
Journal of Financial Economics 2014 January Vol 111:1 p 86-110
2013
Ginera B; Tahoun A; Walker M
Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting 2013 Vol 42:159 p 289-309
2010
Schleicher T; Tahoun A; Walker M
International Journal of Accounting 2010 Vol 45:2 p 143-168
Bloom N; Hassan T A; Kalyani A; Lerner J; Tahoun A
Social Sciences Research Network
2020
Hassan T A; Hollander S; van Lent L; Tahoun A
Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series
Bloom N; Hassan T A; Kalyani A; Lerner J; Tahoun A
Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series
Gad M; Nikolaev V V; Tahoun A; van Lent L
Social Sciences Research Network
Gorbatikov E; Naik N; Sharma V; Tahoun A; van Lent L
Working Paper
Hassan T A; van Lent L; Hollander S; Tahoun A
Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series
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