Replication Data for: The Burden of the National Debt: Evidence from Mergers and Acquisitions

//Replication Code for Dissanayake, Wu and Zhang, "The Burden of the National Debt: Evidence from Mergers and Acquisitions" //The main data come from the Compustat, CRSP, and Thomson Reuters databases, all of which are accessible via a subscription. //Pseudo-dataset "madebt_pseudo.dta" demonstrates format of the original dataset for all firm-years, with variable names. //The file "ivfirststage_pseudo.dta" contains Pseudo data for all the variables used in the first stage of the IV model as in Equation (3), except that macro variables with publicly available data contain real values.