I thank colleagues in Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, France, Japan, and The Netherlands for their joint efforts in conducting the global surveys. I thank many colleagues at Duke University, the NBER, the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and Richmond, and several universities for talking about survey construction and the ideas in this paper. I thank Manuel Adelino, John Barry, Zahi Ben-David, Nick Bloom, Alon Brav, Murillo Campello, Harry DeAngelo, Dave Denis, Greg Dickinson, Jill Grennan, Cam Harvey, Mervyn King, Mark Leary, Yueran Ma, Emi Nakamura, Kjell Nyborg, Shiva Rajgopal, Michael Roberts, David Robinson, Antoinette Schoar, Anil Shivdasani, Jeremy Stein, Johannes Stroebel, René Stulz, Neng Wang, Mike Weisbach, and Marc Zenner, as well as seminar participants at Aarhus, Duke, University of Illinois Chicago, University of Pittsburgh, and Wake Forest, for feedback on various stages of this research project. I thank Kevin Standridge, Chenyu Wang, Rong Wang, and Tuo Yang for excellent research assistance, and John Barry for outstanding research assistance and valuable feedback throughout. BRX Research Services provided high quality survey implementation assistance. The ideas in this paper do not necessarily reflect the views of those aforementioned and any errors are my own. The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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