issuance and mergers are to a significant extent driven by market-timing considerations, as opposed to by purely fundamental …

firm. Examining mergers that occurred during 1985 to 1991, we find evidence of such a nonmonotonic relationship between the …

This paper studies a sample of large acquisitions completed between 1971 arid 1982. By the end of 1989, acquirers have … the sale price, we characterize the ex post success of the divested acquisitions and consider only 34% to 50% of … announcement are significantly lower for unsuccessful acquisitions than for divestitures not classified as unsuccessful arid for …

Database (LBD) first introduced by Jarmin and Miranda (2002). The LBD is used to create the Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS …

We build a publicly available database that tracks economic activity at a granular level in real time using anonymized …

countries. To further understand international capital flow cycles, I construct a new database on capital flows spanning the …

discuss the unique threats to validity in an online setting and propose methods for coping with these threats. We also discuss … even better than that of traditional methods, depending on the research question. We conclude with our views on the …