This directory contains materials for

       "What Do Survey Data Tell Us about U.S. Businesses?"
        by A. Bhandari, S. Birinci, E. McGrattan, and K. See

To replicate the PRATTS statistics reported in the paper please follow the instructions in the Jupyter Notebook PrattsNetIncomeYields_aeri.ipynb. The HTML file has the output.
The file replicates the numbers we report in Table 1 of the main text and Table A.9 of the Online Appendix

The dataset can be purchased from https://www.bvresources.com/products/dealstats
We used a version that was downloaded on Aug 15 2017