This package contains data files and Stata do-files used in the paper:

"The Pitch Rather than the Pit: Investor Inattention, Trading Activity, and FIFA World Cup Matches", by Michael Ehrmann and David-Jan Jansen. Forthcoming at the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.

Contact: djansenresearch@gmail.com
August 2016.

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The following is included:

1. game_schedule6.xls / game_schedule6.txt
This file contains the coding of the own matches in 2010, listed in Table 1 of the paper.

2. game_schedule2014.xls / game_schedule2014.txt
This file contains the codings of the own matches in 2014, listed in Table 1 of the paper.

3. AnalysisJMCB.do
This file give the codings that results in Tables 2 - 5 of the paper, as well as Tables A3 - A8 of the appendix.

4. ReportC2010.do and ReportC2014.do
These two do-files are called by "AnalysisJMCB.do" and concern comments received during the review process. The results are documented in the online appendix.

Please note that the stock trading data is from proprietary sources, and cannot be made available, therefore. 
