Barnes, Beau Grant; Harp, Nancy L.; Oler, Derek - In: The Financial Review 49 (2014) 4, pp. 793-822
We compare 20 years of data from Thompson Financial SDC Platinum (SDC)'s Mergers and Acquisitions database with a hand-collected database, providing evidence on the completeness and accuracy of SDC data across time. We find that our hand-collected data is generally more accurate than SDC, but...