Data and Code

Data and code:

[Data: Urban Vibrancy Measures in China].


[Data: Institutions Weather Measures on Earnings Announcements]


[Data: Blockchain Investment Announcement Dates]



[Data: Cultural New Year Dates]


[Data: Political Culture Index (PCI)]


[Data: Firm Republican Index (REP)]

       Sample SAS code to merge FEC contribution data with managers and corporate sponsors

       Sample SAS code to read FEC individual contribution files

       Sample SAS code to read PAC summary files

       Sample SAS code to calculate the firm-level manager political preference measures using FEC and ExecuComp data


[Data: CVD monthly series 1960-2018, CVD annual graph]


[Data: Stock Lottery Index ]


[Data: UMO monthly series 1972-2016; UMO daily series 1972-2016, UMO annual returns (graph)]


[Data: Dual-Class Names]


(1) "Reference Point Adaptation: Tests in the Domain of Security Trading" by Hal Arkes, David Hirshleifer, Danling Jiang and Sonya Lim, 2008, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 105(1), 67–81.

(2) "A Cross-Cultural Study of Reference Point Adaptation: Evidence from China, Korea, and the US" by Hal Arkes, David Hirshleifer, Danling Jiang and Sonya Lim, 2010, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 112(2), 99-111.    [Additional Data for Tables 3, 4, 5]