Location: TIAS Business School, Room TZ8 (Travel Information and Map)

Day 1 - Oct. 22, 2007

AM: Beuselinck/Garcia/Hollander/Joos
PM: Beuselinck/Joos

1. Introduction: handouts
2. Slides on Databases: Beuselinck: Amadeus
- Garcia: Datastream/Worldscope - Hollander: I/B/E/S - Joos: Compustat
3. Article: Beuselinck - Joos - Van der Meulen (2007): International Earnings Comparability
4. Article: Collins - Maydew - Weiss (1997): Changes in the value relevance over the past 40 years
5. PC SAS (2006): An intro to PC SAS Connect
6. Compustat: Industrial items list (pdf)
7. Dataset: Inflation data(*.sas7bdat)
8. Hands-on training SAS program for Collins et al. (*.sas)
9. Fyi: SQL in SAS 9.1 (*.sas)

Day 2 - Oct. 23, 2007

AM: I. Karamanou
PM: P. Alves/B. Garcia

1. Slides: AM (part 1)
and (part 2) and (part 3)
2. Articles

1. Karamanou - Irani (2004): A study of the economic consequences of Reg FD
2. Karamanou - Nishiotis (2007): The Valuation Effects of Firm Voluntary Adoption of International Accounting Standards

1. Slides: PM (Beatriz: DS & WSC)
and (Paulo)
2. • Articles

1. Alves - Beekes - Young (2007): A Comparison of UK firms' financial statement data from six sources
2. Garcia - Garcia - Gill (2006): Effects of database choice for international accounting research
3. Complementary material: zipped files

 

Day 3 - Oct. 24, 2007

AM: D. Christodolou
PM: S. McLeay

1. Slides:
   • Stata: an introduction
   (Every ESR should register here for the Stata Manual)
   • Stuart's presentation: zipped files
2. Articles