Crawling EDGAR
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2012Metadata
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.srfe.2012.04.001Abstract
While our kids may think this paper is about spiders, it is, unfortunately, about rms
in the United States reporting relevant business information to the Securities and Ex-
change Commission (SEC). The paper is meant to serve as a primer for economists in
the computing details of searching for information in the Internet. One important goal of
the paper is to show how simple open-source computer scripts can be generated to access
nancial data on rms that interact with regulators in the United States.
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This is the authors’ final, accepted and refereed manuscript to the article