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[[Leveraged Buyout Innovation (Academic Paper)]]
==Instructions for running matching code==
===Inputs and Outputs===
Input: tab delimited file "E:/McNair/Projects/LBO/Clean/STATApredictLBOclean.txt"
This contains list of LBO and nonLBO firms from compustat 1970-2015, propensity scores, patent data, and other variables generated from stata code "statadatasetup4.do" and "statapredictLBOclean.do"
Output: tab delimited file "E:/McNair/Projects/LBO/New matching/matchresults.txt"
This is the input file, except with an additional column "matchpair" indicating matched pairs:
positive integers identify pairs matched, negative integers identify matched non-LBOs in years other than the match, -0.1 identifies LBOs that failed to match under given constraints
