Re: st: Dropping first 60 months of every Stock (Permno)

["Tim Streibel" <Tim.Streibel@gmx.de>]

Hey Sylvain,

your idea is very simple and it works perfectly! Thanks a lot!


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> Datum: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 08:57:04 +0000
> Von: WEBER Sylvain <sylvain.weber@unine.ch>
> An: "<statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
> CC: "statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
> Betreff: Re: st: Dropping first 60 months of every Stock (Permno)

> Hi Tim,
> 
> Looping over all observations is clearly inefficient. 
> Assuming you have a variable called "date" that contains the time period,
> and that you have no missing observations, something like this should work:
> 
> sort permno date
> by permno (date): drop if _n<60&mi(ipoyr)
> 
> 
> Hope this helps. 
> 
> Sylvain
> 
> Le 27 oct. 2012 à 01:37, "Tim Streibel" <Tim.Streibel@gmx.de> a écrit :
> 
> > Hey all,
> > 
> > I am having some trouble with efficiently dropping the first 60 monthly
> observations of every stock (uniquely identified by the variable permno).
> > Just briefly explaining some steps in advance:
> > First if-clause helps me identifying that it's a new stock (and no
> ipo-stock), so that I should try to drop next 60 obs.
> > The three if-clauses below try to check, whether there are even 60 obs.
> of that stock (for example: To avoid dropping stocks form the next Permno) 
> > 
> > So my problem is that it's going really, really slow. The dataset
> comprises 3.3 mio observations. However I think It should be possible to do that
> quicker than in a few days ;)
> > I tried with an example dataset of 850 obs. and it looks like it's doing
> what I want it to do. However I cannot completely assure, that it's not
> somehow getting stuck in loop (but tried to think it through several times
> and I dont think so).
> > Thanks in advance for your advice
> > 
> > Here's my source code:
> > 
> > local i=1
> > local permno=permno[1]
> > while `i'<=_N{ // Dropps the first 5 years of CRSP data to assure that
> matching firms are mature companies
> >    if permno[`i']!=`permno' & ipoyr1==.{
> >        local up=`i'+59
> >            if `up'<=_N & permno[`i']==permno[`up']{
> >                local permno=permno[`i']
> >                qui:drop in `i'/`up'
> >            }
> >            else if `up'>_N {
> >                local y=`i'
> >                local permno=permno[`i']
> >                while `y'<=_N & `permno'==permno[`y']{
> >                    qui:drop in `y'
> >                }
> >            }
> >            else if permno[`i']!=permno[`up']{
> >                local x=0
> >                local permno=permno[`i']
> >                while `x'<=1{
> >                    local sum=`i'+`x'
> >                    if `permno'==permno[`sum']{
> >                        qui:drop in `sum'
> >                    }
> >                    else{
> >                        local x=`x'+1
> >                    }
> >                }
> >            }
> >        
> >    }
> >    else{
> >        local i=`i'+1
> >    }
> > }
> > 
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