(March 2017/Issue 83)
The Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) is a web-based data management system that allows faculty, students, and postgraduates to access information from a wide variety of financial, economic and marketing data sources.
The Library has subscribed the following data sets:
COMPUSTAT includes annual and quarterly Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Cash Flows, and supplemental data items on more than 7,500 publicly held companies.
CRSP (The Center for Research in Security Prices) maintains the most comprehensive collection of security price, return, and volume data for the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ stock markets.
I/B/E/S (The Institutional Brokers Estimate System) provides a global summary and individual forecast information as well as buy-sell-hold recommendations for companies globally, plus cash flow, dividend, and pre-tax profit forecasts.
If it may be of interest for your study and research, you may like to apply for a WRDS account via our Library’s databases web page. For more information, click HERE.
