Will Cleland (Work Log)
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Will Cleland Work Logs (log page)
- 9/1/2016 - Make Wiki Pages for "Winner's Curse," familiarize self with new wiki and plan with team working on "Winner's Curse" if they are in.
- 9/6/2016 - Work on Malmendier & Tate variables and finish wiki pages
- 9/8/2016 - Met with Amir to go over paper and required variables for measuring CEO over confidence, familiarized myself with Ed's SQL code
- 9/9/2016 - Talked with Jake and went over Malmendier & Tate paper to find overconfidence measures
- 9/13/2016 - Absent
- 9/15/2016 - Met with Amir to see which variables to use as proxys for Malmedier & Tate
- 9/20/2016 - Work with Jake to build database (experienced technical difficulties, shout out Harsh)
- 9/22/2016 - Develop data necessary to measure CEO overconfidence
- 9/23/2016 - Absent
- 9/27/2016 - Potentially upload to Stata to find which CEOs are overconfident and develop a cutoff point
- 9/30/2016 - Pull all necessary data and put it in winnerscurse data base
- 10/1/2016 - Came in with Jake to pull data
- 10/4/2016 - Load data in to database
- 10/6/2016 - Load data
- 10/11/2016 - Worked with SDC data from Amir
- 10/13/2016 - Absent
- 10/14/2016 - Meet with Ed, see what needs doing
- 10/18/2016 - Upload options DB, determine next steps for joining DBs
- 10/21/2016 - Create new SDC Table, see what Jake and Amir think are next steps
- 10/25/2016 - Upload new SDC Table, and create other variables
- 10/27/2016 - Created flattened return table for all acquisitions
- 10/28/2016 - Created abnormal return for all acquisitions, database space ran out before turnover could be created
- 11/1/2016 - Continue creating variables for paper (Turnover & Momentum & public/private + discussion)
- 11/3/2016 - Update wiki page with tasks and create IT Fixed Effect
- 11/4/2016 - Continue Variable Creation
- 11/8/2016 - ABSENT
- 11/10/2016 - Merge my variables and Malmendier & Tate
- 11/11/2016 - Narrowed everything down to three tables and narrowed SDC data, all three tables are ready for Join
- 11/16/2016- Continued focusing in on the three main tables and explained work to Ed
- 11/18/2016- Ready to Join CRSP data and SDC data, in addition need to work on Malmendier Tate measure which displayed a flaw on second download
- 11/19/2016-
