This repo hosts the code and data for:

Kubinec, Robert; Lee, Haillee and Tomashevskiy, Andrey. "Why Corporate Political Connections Impede Investment." Working Paper.

A brief description of the files is as follows:

• analyze_data.R: loads survey data data/qual_data.rds and either estimates models or loads models from data/. Produces all plots in the paper.

• prepare_data_public.R: takes the survey data/qual_data.rds and produces a data file with one row per experimental outcome.

• define_ord_betareg.R: Definition of Kubinec (2020) ordinal beta regression model for use with brms.

• dag_depend.R: Analysis of the DAG proposed in the paper.

• gen_tfp_survey.R: generation of the simulated TFP data shown in the paper.

• beta_logit*.stan: Stan files for the ordered beta regression model used in the analysis.

• preregr_exprop.Rmd: Rmarkdown file containing code used to produce power analysis in the pre-registration.