/* This dataset provides the permnos of closed-end funds that were under open-ending attempts by activist investors between 1989 and 2003. The paper by Bradley, Brav, Goldstein, and Jiang (2009) has a full description of the construction of the data. The link to the paper is at: http://www.columbia.edu/~wj2006/activist_arb.pdf. This data is provided for academic use only. Your must cite the above paper in working papers and published papers that use any of the data. The full citation is: Bradley, Michael, Alon Brav, Itay Goldstein, and Wei Jiang, 2009, Activist Arbitrage: A Study of Open-Ending Attempts of Closed-End Funds, Journal of Financial Economics, [isuse and page numbers to be updated]. You assume all risk for the use of the data.*/ /* Col1: Closed-End Fund Permno; Col2: Year under Open-Ending Attemps */ 76178 1997 77059 2000 77059 2001 75032 1997 75032 2000 75032 2001 75032 2002 79891 2001 75806 1998 75806 1999 75806 2000 75806 2001 52345 2002 75036 1989 75252 1989 75252 2003 77489 1998 77489 2002 76083 1995 76083 2002 75809 2002 77776 2001 75047 1998 75047 1999 75047 2002 70535 1996 70543 1989 70543 1990 76114 1997 76114 1998 76114 1999 80081 1998 80081 1999 76476 1997 76476 1998 80385 1996 77895 1995 76145 1995 76145 1996 76239 2003 80389 1998 81033 2000 75160 1989 68427 1999 68427 2000 68427 2002 68427 2003 78012 1998 75838 2002 75838 2003 81034 2000 69390 1989 76181 1998 76181 1999 76181 2000 76181 2001 80177 1996 80177 1997 81035 1997 67248 1996 18622 1996 18622 1997 69999 1995 70009 1989 80198 1995 79754 1999 79754 2000 77816 2001 76084 1996 76084 1997 75258 1994 80200 2003 75349 2000 75349 2002 76117 2000 68961 1989 68961 1998 68961 2000 76147 2000 77817 2000 77817 2002 77817 2003 80397 2003 77128 1993 77128 1994 77311 2000 77311 2001 77311 2003 77065 1999 77065 2000 77691 2003 81041 1997 81041 1998 68929 2000 68929 2001 88307 2002 75076 2003 76273 1998 76273 1999 76273 2000 76273 2001 62930 2000 62930 2001 62930 2002 80205 2002 80725 2002 80206 2003 83996 1999 79762 1997 75938 1998 80400 1996 80400 1998 25558 1992 75081 1989 76160 1992 80095 2001 69067 1996 69067 1997 75843 1999 75843 2000 75843 2002 72557 1996 69657 1989 69657 1990 10207 1995 10207 2002 80008 2002 18761 1992 18761 2003 71108 1989 71108 1990 80097 1997 75092 2002 76086 1999 75293 1997 75078 1994 75078 2002 75078 2003 75942 1996 80211 1999 80211 2002 75317 1998 75317 1999 75317 2000 75168 2000 75168 2001 80728 1997 80728 1999 71159 2001 71159 2002 79642 2002 79642 2003 80866 1997 80866 1998 80866 2000 80866 2002 80430 2001 80430 2002 76189 1995 80867 2002 83833 1999 18956 1995 18956 1997 18956 1998 75194 1995 75194 1996 75194 1997 75194 1998 70287 1996 16396 1999 70797 1992 75065 1999 75065 2000 75631 1995 75631 1997 75631 1998 75631 1999 75631 2000 75882 1991 76115 1995 76115 1999 77255 1998 77255 2001 77573 1999 77689 1998 77689 1999 77689 2000 80428 1996 80784 2003 80862 1999 80862 2002 84193 2000 84193 2002 84774 1999