CCGR Data Extraction Inquiry BI Student

CCGR Data Extraction Inquiry –BI Student

(Version 2.5 – December 2017)

Contract on data extraction between

the Department of Finance at BI Norwegian Business School

[Student's name]

supervised by

[Supervisor]

This contract specifies the rules for extracting data for BI students from the CCGR database.

The CCGR database is owned by the Centre for Corporate Governance Research (CCGR). Project description

Name of project: The Project Name Here

Project termination date: Date Here (The termination date must be before January 1, 2020)

Write the purpose of the project here

2 Data Description

Item number

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

As a student, you will be allowed a maximum of 20 variables (item numbers). If the project requires more than 20 items, you must first get an approval from your supervisor and then from the data owner.

You cannot get credit rating data or data that identify the company (organization id) or a person.

The organization Ids will be anonymous. If you need the organization Ids, you need approval from your supervisor and also an approval from the data owner. You may also need a permit from BI.

Please do not expect the Data Administrator to carry out data transformations on your behalf. That is, you will only get the raw data. The data will be delivered as a CSV file or SPSS file.

3 Conditions

By signing this agreement, we acknowledge that during the course of our student project, we will acquire information which is confidential to BI or to other parties.

We acknowledge and agree that the information contained in the DATABASE is the exclusive property of the CCGR. We therefore promise to treat all information from the DATABASE in a confidential manner. This means we will not disclose or redistribute any information from the DATABASE to any person neither during our term as a student at BI, or at any time after the termination of the project.

We agree that all written documents containing confidential information shall remain the property of the CCGR. Moreover, all documents, copies or excerpts shall be promptly returned upon request.

We acknowledge that, in addition to any other rights and remedies, CCGR is entitled to apply to a Court of competent jurisdiction for a restraining order and injunction to prohibit disclosure by us of any such information. CCGR shall be entitled to do so in the event of a violation by us of this agreement, in order to protect the property rights as set forth in this agreement.

We acknowledge the following requirements:

1. We will delete the data no less than 3 months after project termination.

2. We will not transfer data to any members outside the project. Data will not be transferred to other parties without permission from the data owner and/or BI.

3. In case of misuse of the data, either by us or any person who has been able to access the data because of us, we will be held liable for economic damages to CCGR’s data provider (Experian and Skattedirektoratet).

4. We agree that we will not contact the Data Administrator or the Data Owner without an approval from our supervisor.

5. We agree that once the project is completed, we will send a copy of the final thesis (excluding the student numbers) to CCGR as a pdf file. Deadline: July 1 the year the thesis is submitted. The pdf file should be sent to [email protected].

6. We can be contacted at the following BI email address (one per student):

7. We can be contacted at the following BI non-BI email address (one per student):

8. We agree that CCGR invokes the right to publish the final thesis on the CCGR homepage. 4 9. We agree that our obligations under this Agreement will survive the termination of our project.

5 Endorsements

Approval from Data Owner is attached (Only necessary if required)

Approval from NSD is attached (Only necessary if required)

Step 1: Endorsement from the supervisor.

Supervisor : Date:

Step 2: Endorsement from the Data Administrator

The Data Administrator certifies that the student agreement is correctly specified

Data Administrator: Date:

Step 3: The student’s signature

Data User: Date:

Step 4: To be filled in by the Data Administrator.

Extraction Date:

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