Mahmoud Gad
@md_gad
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#financial_contracting #corporate_transparency
Joined July 2011
Interested in the role of data and AI in regulating and tackling modern slavery? Come along to this event on 7 Jun 2024. Members of our Modern Slavery and Justice Knowledge & Action Hub are facilitating a roundtable on their work on eradicating slavery. https://t.co/heyStREphU
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Join us as we explore how regulations, data, and AI can work together to combat modern slavery in today's world.
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Millions of people suffer through #ModernSlavery. So why are not all UK companies transparent in their reports on the issue? Mahmoud Gad (@md_gad) explains the importance of full and accurate reporting in combatting a global issue. https://t.co/B52GduhjRM
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We then delve deep into the sources of this risk. We analyze conference calls to identify "keyness" in political language. We find that lenders' political terms overwhelmingly impact borrowing costs. 4/5
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Lenders aren't just passive players; they transmit their own political risk to borrowers. We find that almost all effects of lender-level political risk on loan pricing come from bank-dependent borrowers. 3/5
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We exploit the redrawing of electoral districts as a source of plausibly exogenous variation in firm-level political risk. Our findings? Firms exposed to redistricting see a 24-27 basis-point increase in borrowing costs. 2/5
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Our new paper (Firm-level Political Risk and Credit Markets) with @L_van_Lent; @tahoun100 and Valeri Nikolaev is forthcoming at JAE. We explore how political risk at the firm level reverberates through credit markets. 1/5
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✨ DAZZLING THE WHOLE WORLD AS USUAL ✨ Luxor celebrated with an iconic grand parade! A team of archeologists restored the Sphinx Avenue, an ancient walkway that links the historic temples of Luxor and Karnak 🙌🏻 #TheSphinxAvenue
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Another upside #inflation surprise, this time the UK May annual CPI inflation was 2.1%, above consensus expectation and up from 1.5% in April. One inflation reading after the other has exceeded consensus expectations as the forecasting community chases actual inflation dynamics.
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A new era of corporate transparency is dawning https://t.co/EgREd3YPcL | opinion
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Looking forward to reading this book by @nickchk, definitely worth checking out.
Today I finally get to share the full draft of my new book The Effect. I think it turned out really well. The Effect offers a highly accessible and intuitive approach to research design and causal inference with observational data. Find it here:
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This week, we are looking forward to welcoming Igor Goncharov (@LancasterManage) to our seminar! "The availability of stock prices and reporting quality: Evidence from the disclosures of publicly-traded and nontraded firms" with Max Mueller (@esmtberlin) and Mahmoud Gad @md_gad
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Hi #Econtwitter #AccoTwitter crowd: @trr_accounting, @BSE_Berlin and @HumboldtUni offer an open online PhD/Master-level course on Corporate Transparency Research. Exciting guest speakers. Open enrolment! #openscience. Klick 👇 for more info and speakers:
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The repository for our open online course "Research on Corporate Transparency" - trr266/rescorptrans
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The man who created Reddit’s WallStreetBets never imagined the community would morph into a force so powerful that it would send GameStop shares into overdrive and nearly topple a hedge fund. “You see this train wreck happening in real time.”
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Researchers and hedge funds will have to modify they text-scrapers. For those not interested in reading 196 pages (though these docs are typically well-written), here is the summary of changes:
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Recently accepted by #QJE, “3G Internet and Confidence in Government,” by Sergei Guriev (@sguriev), Nikita Melnikov (@melnikov_n_v), and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (@ezhuravskaya):
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This is a very important thread
An Italian drama could unfold in the next few weeks, with substantial consequences. And, again and again, it's about the (probably not) oldest bank in the world, Monte dei Paschi. What is it about? A quick thread
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Cheap steroid found to significantly reduce Covid-19 mortality rates
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Dexamethasone found to reduce deaths by one-third in ventilated patients
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