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Fudan Financial Research Forum: Research Center SAFE - Data Center

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Fudan Financial Research Forum:Research Center SAFE -

Data Center

SAFE Data Center

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Service and Support

Selected Ongoing Research Project

Outlook

Key Tasks & Contribution to the SAFE Mission

Tasks and Goals

“SAFE will have a flourishing future bringing together effectivepolicy proposals based on rigorous empirically foundedresearch.”

Richard Blundell, SAFE Guest Commentary, 2013

“Rigorous empirically founded research” requires:

Identification and provision of high end financial data

Placing the five central research areas of SAFE on acommon European data footing

Service and support …

o for SAFE

o for the scientific community at large

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SAFE Data Center

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Service and Support

Outlook

Key Tasks & Contribution to the SAFE Mission

Selected Ongoing Research Project

Provision of High End Financial DataMicro data

(balance sheets, managerial information …)

Macro data 

(GDP, budget deficits, forecasts, …)

Events and markets

(M&A, stock prices, announcements, …)

Financial Institutions 

Bankscope, SNL, Compustat Banks, Call Reports, BoardEx

Bloomberg, Datastream

Bankscope, Markit CDS, DealScan, CRSP, I/B/E/S,  TRACE

Corporate Finance

Amadeus, Bankscope, IRR, BoardEx, ExecuComp, Blockholders,Capital IQ

Bloomberg, Datastream

Markit CDS, CRSP, I/B/E/S, OptionMetrics, SDC

HouseholdFinance

ECRI, SHARE, OEE Bloomberg, Datastream

Lipper FM, Datastream, I/B/E/S

Financial Markets

Amadeus, Compustat, Capital IQ, BoardEx, ExecuComp

Global Financial Data, Bloomberg, Datastream

Markit CDS, DealScan,  CRSP, I/B/E/S, Eurofidai,  OptionMetrics,  TRACE, SDC

Macro Finance Global Financial Data, Bloomberg, Datastream, Penn World Tables

Markit CDS, Bloomberg, Datastream, OptionMetrics

Service & Support, not just for SAFE researchers

Facilitated access, video tutorials, help desks, training, …

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Service & Support, not just for SAFE researchers

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Where do the data go?

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SAFE WP Nr.

Autoren Titel Datenbanken

5Vilkov, Xiao Option-Implied Information and Predictability of Extreme Returns CRSP6Kraft, Schwartz, Weiss Growth Options and Firm Valuation CRSP, Compustat 8Angeloni, Faia, Duca Monetary Policy and Risk Taking Datastream

16Ascheberg, Branger, Kraft When Do Jumps Matter for Portfolio Optimization? Datastream20Adams, Füss, Gropp Spillover Effects among Financial Institutions: A State-Dependent Sensitivity

Value-at-Risk ApproachDatastream

23Gill, Visnjic Insight Private Equity Thomson One24Gill, Visnjic Performance Benefits of Tight Control Thomson One25Kraft, Schmidt Systemic Risk in the Financial Sector: What Can We Learn from Option

Markets?CRSP, Compustat, OptionMetrics

26Brennan, Kraft Financing Asset Growth CRSP, Compustat, IBES35Gomber, Sagade, Theissen, Weber,

WestheideCompetition/Fragmentation in Equities Markets: A Literature Survey Reuters Tick History

36Hett, Schmidt Bank Rescues and Bailout Expectations: The Erosion of Market Discipline During the Financial Crisis

CRSP, Compustat, Datastream, Optionmetrics,

37Radev Systemic Risk and Sovereign Debt in the Euro Area Datastream, Bloomberg, Bankscope51Aït-Sahalia, Laeven, Pelizzon Mutual Excitation in Eurozone Sovereign CDS Datastream, Bloomberg60Colonnello, Curatola, Hoang Executive Compensation Structure and Credit Spreads CRSP, Compustat, Execucomp,

RiskMetrics, Markit65Berdin, Gründl The Effects of a Low Interest Rate Environment on Life Insurers Datastream70Radev Assessing Systemic Fragility – a Probabilistic Perspective Bloomberg77Born, Müller, Pfeifer Does Austerity Pay Off? Datastream93Hebous, Zimmermann Revisiting the Narrative Approach of Estimating Tax Multipliers Global Financial Data95Pelizzon,Subrahmanyam,

Tomio, UnoSovereign Credit Risk, Liquidity, and ECB Intervention: Deus Ex Machina? Bloomberg

99Grupp, Rauch, Umber, Walz The Influence of Leveraged Buyouts on Target Firms' Competitors Compustat, ThomsonOne100Grupp Taking the Lead: When Non-Banks Arrange Syndicated Loans Compustat, Dealscan101Marcel Grupp On the Impact of Leveraged Buyouts on Bank Systemic Risk Compustat, Dealscan103Caporin, Pelizzon, Ravazzolo,

RigobonMeasuring Sovereign Contagion in Europe Datastream

107Powell, Rapp Non-Mandatory Say on Pay Votes and AGM Participation: Evidence from Germany

Worldscope

Remote Access to Data from Statistical Offices

External Research Data Center (FDZ) of the Federal StatisticalOffice and the statistical offices of the states

Outlook: Access to further micro-data sources (Institute forEmployment Research?, Bundesbank?, …)

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SAFE Data Center

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Service and Support

Selected Ongoing Research Project

Outlook

Key Tasks & Contribution to the SAFE Mission

Preparations for an International Data Sharing Platform

Objectives:

o Collecting, long-term archiving, documenting and sharingfinancial data in its widest sense (incl. information on„merging and linking“, algorithms, research papers,…)

o Global access (based on suitable access control rights)

o Focus and expertise on European data sources

Example: Loriana Pelizzon’s systemic risk dashboardinformation, incl. code

Project partners: Hessian Library Information System –HEBIS. (HeBIS) and University Library of Frankfurt

Cooperation with information science and financial researchcenters: GESIS, ZBW, CFR (Cologne), SFB 649 “EconomicRisk” (Berlin)

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Scientific Achievements in Phase I

Selected Ongoing Research Projects

Outlook

Key Tasks & Contribution to the SAFE Mission

Historical Financial Data Project GOETHE

Generating complete and long running time series (1870-1970)

Enabling new research on the interaction between finance, history and economics (understanding roots of market capitalization, contagion then and now, FX exposure…)

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Data available in old newpapers, …but not digitalized in databases

Historical Financial Data Project GOETHE

Collect historical, currently non-digitalized financial data for Germany Asset Pricing, Balance Sheets, Corporate Governance

Large-scale endeavor with the ultimate goal of building a European alliance of institutes

Currently collecting stock prices for approximately 800 German companies listed on the Berlin Stock Exchange

Milestones

Data collection for the period 1870-1970 as part of a joint DFG-ANR project

Application for long-term funding from DFG Collaborative EU project on historical financial data

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High Frequency Data at SAFE

EUROFIDAI (France): Loriana Pelizzon and team (Marti G. Subrahmanyam, Jun Uno) received research support for using their high frequency financial data

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Thank you for your attention!