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Databases

Students use the Bloomberg database in Esther Simpson building

To support the creation of impactful research, and provide a learning and teaching environment to match, the Accounting and Finance Department has invested in an excellent provision of databases.

This in-depth range of access is supported by a team of dedicated Data Research Officers responsible for managing and maintaining our databases and educating end-users in the use of database resources. These specially trained academic researchers are on hand to assist staff and students with database-specific knowledge and access techniques.

In addition, the School is proud to host two state-of-the-art, fully-equipped financial trading rooms, boasting a full suite of Bloomberg and Refinitive (TR) Eikon/Refinitive (TR) Datastream terminals.

Our list of current Databases

Wharton Research Database Systems (WRDS)

  • Audit Analytics (Accounting and Oversight; Audit and Compliance, Europe)
  • Bank Regulatory
  • Blockholders (Institutional (13f) holdings)
  • Boardex
  • Centre for Research in Security Prices (CRSP)
  • China Stock Market and Accounting Research (CSMAR)
  • Compustat (North America, Global, Bank, Execucomp etc.)
  • European Short Data
  • Institutional Brokers Estimate System (IBES academic)
  • Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) (US Directors, Governance, Incentive lab)
  • Market Information Data Analytics System (MIDAS)
  • OptionMetrics
  • SDC (M&A and new issues)
  • SEC-mandated Disclosure of Order Execution Statistics
  • TRACE International
  • Other datasets and tools available from WRDS (Contributed data, research quotient, Subsidiaries, US Patents, OTC markets, FF factors, CBOW indexes, Linking suit, Options suite, Event study etc.)

Other databases

  • Beauhurst
  • Bloomberg
  • Bureau Van Dijk (Fame, Orbis, Orbis Bank Focus, Orbis Crossboder Investment, Orbis Ownership, Orbis Intellectual Property, Zephyr)
  • Capital IQ and Capital Pro (formerly SNL Market Intelligence)
  • CreditSafe
  • Deal Scan
  • FitchConnect
  • Morningstar Direct
  • MSCI ESG
  • RateWatch
  • Refinitiv (TR) Eikon
  • Spatial Hazard Events and Losses Database for the United States (SHELDUS)