Ph.D, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Dalian, China (2012-2016)
MBA, Institute of Management Science Multan, Pakistan (2008-2010)
BBA, Management, Business and IT, Institute of Management Science Multan, Pakistan (2004-2008)
Govt. Allamdar Hussain College Multan, Pakistan (2002-2004)
Research interests
Financial Management
Corporate Finance
Corporate Governance
Financing Policies
Firm performance
Sustainability
Work experience
Assistant professor, Finance and Accounting Academic Area, Rennes School of Business (September 2017 – Present)
Assistant professor, Finance and Accounting Academic Area, Air University, Pakistan (October 2016 – August 2017)
Lecturer, Institute of Management Sciences of Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan (2010 – 2012)
Intellectual contributions
Refereed Articles – Basic or Discovery Scholarship
Ahsan, T., Mirza, S.S., Al-Gamrh, B. (2020). Split-share reforms and capital structure adjustment in China: A dynamic panel fractional estimation. Journal of economic studies. (Accepted)
Al-Gamrh, B. Ahsan, T. (2020). Investment opportunities, corporate governance quality and firm performance in UAE. Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies. (Forthcoming)
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
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.
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
Tauni, M.Z., Ahsan, T. and Umar, M., 2019. Do mutual funds have consistency in their performance?. Portuguese Economic Journal, pp.1-15.
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
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
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
Chapters, Cases, Readings, Supplements
Chapter
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
Qureshi, M.A., Ahsan, T., Azid,T. Equity and Debt Financing Strategies to fuel Global Business Operations during Crisis. In: Hacioglu, Umit, Dincer, Hasan (Eds.). Global Financial Crisis and its Ramifications on Global Economic Activity; Opportunities and Threats in Volatile Economic Conditions. Springer, Contributions to Economics, 2017, 659 p. pp. 297-322. ISBN 978-3319470207
