# Read me file for “Does a Financial Crisis Impair Corporate Innovation?”

The code and data in this replication package produce the results found in the tables and figures of the paper.
Data processing software: Stata18. 

## File description
1. Data 
Data folder includes the data files for bank dependence analyses (“Patent_BankDependence”) and bank failure analyses(“Patent_BankFailure”), respectively.  

2. Code  
Code folder includes the following four do-files:
-The do-file “Regression_Bank dependence analyses. do” generates the results found in Table 1(except the variable, Bank failure), Tables 2-9 and Appendix Tables A2-A6, based on the data“Patent_BankDependence”.  
-The do-file “Figure_Bank dependence analyses. do” generates Figure1, based on the data“Patent_BankDependence”.  
-The do-file “Regression_Bank failure analyses. do” generates the results found in Table 1(the variable, Bank failure), Tables 10-13 and Appendix Tables A7 and A8, based on the data“Patent_BankFailure”. 
-The do-file “Figure_Bank failure analyses. do” generates Figure2, Figure 3 and Appendix Figures A1 and A2, based on the data“Patent_BankFailure.  
-The results for bank failure analyses (Tables 10-13 and Tables A7-A8) are not supported by the command outreg2. Please see the results directly calculated by STATA. 
    
### Data availability
- The data files include proprietary contract-based data provided by the vendors, Nikkei Inc.(https://needs.nikkei.co.jp/) and Toyo Keizai (https://biz.toyokeizai.net/data/). 
The use of the data files is permitted only for replication purposes in this study. 
