Dr Tanveer AHSAN

Teaching

• Finance
• Management

Research interests

• Financial Management
• Corporate Finance
• Corporate Governance
• Financing Policies
• Firm performance
• Sustainability

Intellectual contributions

Refereed Articles – Basic or Discovery Scholarship

• Gull, A. A., Ahsan, T., Qureshi, M. A., & Mushtaq, R. (2023). Striving to safeguard shareholders or maintain sustainability in periods of high uncertainty: A multi-country evidence. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 188, 122183.
• Ahsan, T., Mirza, S. S., Gull, A. A., & Majeed, M. A. (2023). How to deal with customer and supplier concentration to attain sustainable financial growth? The role of business strategy. Business Strategy and the Environment. Forthcoming.
• Bin-Feng, C., Mirza, S. S., Ahsan, T., Safdar, R., Iqbal, A., & Hayat, M. (2022). Family control and corporate risk-taking in China: Does working capital strategy matter? Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja, 35(1), 4280-4299.
• Qureshi, M. A., Ahsan, T., & Gull, A. A. (2022). Does country-level eco-innovation help reduce corporate CO2 emissions? Evidence from Europe. Journal of Cleaner Production, 379, 134732.
• Ali Gull, A., Issa, A., Atif, M., & Ahsan, T. (2022). Gender diversity in boardrooms and corporate financial performance: Evidence from the male-dominated society of Qatar. Question (s) de Management, (1), 113-127.
• Gull, A. A., Atif, M., Ahsan, T., & Derouiche, I. (2022). Does waste management affect firm performance? International evidence. Economic Modelling, 114, 105932.
• Ahsan, T., Qureshi, M. A., Gull, A. A., & Muhammad, F. (2022). The relevance of national culture to policy uncertainty and firm performance: European evidence. Journal of Economic Studies, Forthcoming
• Qureshi, M. A., & Ahsan, T. (2022). Do investors penalize the firms disclosing higher environmental performance? a cross-cultural evidence. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 29(36), 55147-55160.
• Shahab, Y., Gull, A. A., Rind, A. A., Sarang, A. A. A., & Ahsan, T. (2022). Do corporate governance mechanisms curb the anti-environmental behavior of firms worldwide? An illustration through waste management. Journal of Environmental Management, 310, 114707.
• Gull, A. A., Abid, A., Hussainey, K., Ahsan, T., & Haque, A. (2022). Corporate governance reforms and risk disclosure quality: Evidence from an emerging economy. Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies, Forthcoming
• Qureshi, M. A., Ahsan, T., & Gull, A. A. (2022). Does Eco-Innovation now Help Mitigate Future Climate Change Risk? Recent Evidence from Europe. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2022, No. 1, p. 10013). Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510: Academy of Management.
• Wang, X., Ali, F., Tauni, M.Z., Zhang, Q. and Ahsan, T. (2022). Effects of hedonic shopping motivations and gender differences on compulsive online buyers. Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice. 30(1), 120-135.
• Shahab, Y., Gull, A.A., Ahsan, T. and Mushtaq, R. (2022). CEO power and corporate social responsibility decoupling. Applied Economics Letters, 29(21), 1965-1969.
• Ahsan, T., Al-GAMRH, B. and Mirza, S.S. (2022). Economic policy uncertainty and sustainable financial growth: Does business strategy matter?. Finance Research Letters, 46, 102381.
• Ahsan, T. and Qureshi, M.A. (2022). The impact of Islamic banking model and Islamic financial development on bank performance: evidence from dual banking economies. International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management. 15(3), 602-625.
• Feng, C., Mirza, S.S., Ahsan, T. and Gull, A.A. (2022). The impact of financial flexibility and directors’ academic experience on corporate R&D investments: a quantile regression approach. Applied Economics, 54(17), 1974-1988.
• Ahsan, T., Al-Gamrh, B. and Mirza, S.S. (2022). Corporate social responsibility and firm-value: the role of sensitive industries and CEOs power in China. Applied Economics, 54(16), 1844-1863.
• Bin-Feng, C., Mirza, S.S., Ahsan T., Gull, A.A., Al-Gamrh, B. (2022). Institutional Environment, the Ultimate Controller’s Characteristics, and CSR Disclosure in China. 43(5), 1515-1527.
• Ali, F., Tauni, M.Z., Ali, A. and Ahsan, T. (2021). Do buyer–seller personality similarities impact compulsive buying behaviour?. Journal of Consumer Behaviour. 20(4), pp. 996-1011.
• Ahsan, T. and Qureshi, M.A. (2021). The nexus between policy uncertainty, sustainability disclosure and firm performance. Applied Economics, 53(4), pp. 441-453.
• Mirza, S.S., Ahsan, T., Safdar, R. and Rehman, A.U. (2020). Competition, debt maturity, and adjustment speed in China: a dynamic fractional estimation approach. Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 13(5), pp. 106-123
• Ahsan, T., Mirza, S.S., Al-Gamrh, B. and Bin-Feng, C. (2020). How to deal with policy uncertainty to attain sustainable growth: the role of corporate governance. Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society. (Forthcoming)
• Usman, S.M., Bukhari, F.A.S., Mirza, S.S. and Ahsan, T. (2020). What Determines the Success of Reward-based Crowdfunded Start-ups in the UK and the US?. International Review of Entrepreneurship, 18(3), pp. 467-492
• Mirza, S.S., Majeed, M.A. and Ahsan, T. (2020). Board gender diversity, competitive pressure and investment efficiency in Chinese private firms. Eurasian Business Review, 10(3), pp.417-440.
• Al-Gamrh, B., Ismail, K.N.I.K., Ahsan, T. and Alquhaif, A. (2020). Investment opportunities, corporate governance quality, and firm performance in the UAE. Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies, 10(2), pp. 261-276
• Ahsan, T., Mirza, S.S., Al-Gamrh, B. and Tauni, M.Z. (2020). Split-share reforms and capital structure adjustment in China: a dynamic panel fractional estimation. Journal of Economic Studies, 47(6), pp. 1265-1280
• Ahsan, Tanveer and Muhammad A. Qureshi. (2020) The nexus between policy uncertainty, sustainability disclosure and firm performance. Applied Economics https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2020.1808178
• Tauni, M.Z., Yousaf, S., Ahsan, T. (2020) Investor-advisor Big Five personality similarity and stock trading performance. Journal of Business Research, Volume 109, Issue 3, pp. 49-63
• Mirza, S.S., Ahsan, T. (2020) Corporates’ strategic responses to economic policy uncertainty in China. Business Strategy and the Environment, Vol. 29, Issue 2. pp. 375-389
• Qureshi, M.A., Kirkerud, S., Theresa, K., Ahsan, T. (2020) The impact of sustainability (environmental, social, and governance) disclosure and board diversity on firm value: The moderating role of industry sensitivity. Business Strategy and the Environment, 1-16, DOI: 10.1002/bse.2427
• Ahsan, T., Qureshi, M.A., Aziz, S., Yusuf, M. Technological capabilities and rent eroding battles: Scandinavia centric evidence on firm profitability. International Journal of Economics and Business Research, 2020, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp.130–151
• Mirza, S.S., Majeed, M.A. and Ahsan, T., (2019). Board gender diversity, competitive pressure and investment efficiency in Chinese private firms. Eurasian Business Review, pp.1-24.
• Qureshi, M.A., Ahsan, T. Corporate governance, competition and corporate performance: a comparative analysis of the Muslim world with rest of the world. In : Toseef Azid, Ali Abdullah Alnodel, Muhammad Azeem Qureshi (dir.),Research in Corporate and Shari’ah Governance in the Muslim World: Theory and Practice. Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019. ISBN 9781789730081
• Safdar, R., Sikandar, M.S., Ahsan, T. (2019) Market pricing of liquidity risk: evidence from China. China Finance Review International, Volume 9, Issue 4, 2019, pp. 554-566
• Tauni, M.Z., Memon, Z.A., Fnag, H.-X., Jebran, K., Ahsan, T. (2019) Influence of Investor and Advisor Big Five Personality Congruence on Futures Trading Behavior. Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Volume 55, Issue 15, pp. 3615-3630
• Siddik, M.N.A., Ahsan, T. and Kabiraj, S., (2019). Does Financial Permeation Promote Economic Growth? Some Econometric Evidence From Asian Countries. SAGE Open, 9(3), p.2158244019865811.
• Tauni, M.Z., Ahsan, T. and Umar, M., (2019). Do mutual funds have consistency in their performance? Portuguese Economic Journal, pp.1-15.
• Merle, R., Al-Gamrh, B, Ahsan, T. (2019). Tax havens and transfer pricing intensity: Evidence from the French CAC-40 listed firms, Cogent Business & Management. (2019), 6: 1647918 pp. 1- 12
• Farouqi, F., Ahsan, T., Mirza, S.S., Rao, Z. (2019). Corporate Governance, Cash Flows, and Bank Performance: Developed and Developing Countries. Multinational Finance Journal, 2019, vol. 23, no. 1/2, pp. 1–36
• The impact of financial liberalization on capital structure adjustment in Pakistan: a doubly censored modelling, Applied Economics (Taylor & Francis)
  Impact factor (0.613), 2017, Vol. 49(41), pp. 4148-4160
• Mean reverting financial leverage: Theory and evidence from Pakistan Applied Economics (Taylor & Francis)
  Impact factor (0.613), 2016, Vol. 48(05), pp. 379-388
• How do they adjust their capital structure along their life cycle? An empirical study about capital structure over life cycle of Pakistani firms, Journal of Asia Business Studies, (Emerald), 2016 Vol. 10(03)
• Mean reverting financial leverage and firm life cycle: Theory vs Evidence (Pakistan)
  Emerging Economy Studies (SAGE), 2016, Vol. 2(01)
• Firm, industry and country level determinants of capital structure: evidence from Pakistan South Asian Journal of Global Business Research (Emerald), 2016
• Credit supply and corporate capital structure. Evidence from Pakistan, South Asian Journal of Global Business Research, (Emerald), 2016, Vol. 5(02), pp. 250-267
• Capital Structure Mean Reversion: A comparison between Chinese state-owned and private firms, Global Business and Economics Review (InderScience), 2016, Forthcoming
• Financial crises and Adjustment rate of firms towards target capital structure: Evidence from China, European Journal of Business and Management (IISTE), 2015, Vol. 7(18) pp. 61-69
• Democracy, Regime Stability and Economic Growth: A Cross Country Dynamic Panel Data Analysis. Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development, (IISTE), 2015, Vol. 6(12) pp. 23-44
• What determines leverage in Pakistan? A panel data analysis, African Journal of Business Management, 2012, Vol. 6(3) pp. 978-985

Refereed proceedings – Discipline-Based Scholarship

• Ahsan, Tanveer, Muhammad Azeem Qureshi. Are conventional banks tilted towards Islamic banking model? Evidence from duel banking economies. In: 1st International Banking and Finance Research Conference, Agadir, Morocco, October 2019
• Ahsan, Tanveer and Muhammad A. Qureshi. The convergence between Islamic and conventional banking models: Performance, risk and competition. In: 8th Applied Financial Modelling Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, April 2019
• Ahsan, Tanveer, Muhammad A. Qureshi, and Sultan S. Mirza. Profit Heterogeneity in G8 and Emerging Economies: A Variance Decomposition Analysis. In: 2019 Asia-Pacific Conference on Economics & Finance, Singapore, Singapore, July 2019
• Ahsan, Tanveer. Political Association, Managerial Power Heterogeneity and Corporate Risk-taking in China. In: International Conference on Economic Modeling, Venice, Italy, July 2018
• Ahsan, Tanveer. Ownership concentration, disclosure quality, and the cost of equity in Chinese listed private firms. In: Chinese Economists Society 2018 China Annual Conference, Hefei, China, April 2018
• Hamid, U., Ahsan, Tanveer. Impact of corporate governance on earnings management and performance in islamic and conventional banks of Pakistan. In: International conference on science, Innovation and management, Chengdu, China, December 2017
• Ahsan, Tanveer and Muhammad A. Qureshi. The impact of risk, competition and human capital on bank performance: Islamic banks vs. conventional banks around the World. In: 11th International conference on Islamic Economics and Finance, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 2017
• Ahsan, Tanveer and Muhammad A. Qureshi. The impact of financial liberalization on capital structure adjustment in Pakistan: A doubly-censored modeling. International Conference on Applied Financial Economics, Shanghai, China, July 2016