Wharton Research Data Service

About

Wharton Research Data Service (WRDS) is a comprehensive source of financial, accounting, economic, management, marketing, banking, and insurance data. Includes extensive historical financial data from CRSP and COMPUSTAT covering over 30,000 companies and including security prices and trading volume, income and balance sheet items.

Restrictions

WRDS use is restricted to UCB faculty and graduate students. Requires a password issued by WRDS. Click on the link, choose "account request," and if you qualify, a password will be sent by email.

Links

Commonly Used Data

(source: http://wrds.wharton.upenn.edu/home/moreabout.shtml)

Balance sheets, income statements and other company-based financial itemsCOMPUSTATIndustrial, Full Coverage, Research, and Backdata Annual/Quarterly, Business Industry Segments Price, Dividends, Earnings
Stock prices and returnsCRSPMonthly / Daily Stock Files, Indices files
Intraday stock price bid and ask quotesTAQTrades and Quotes
Analysts EstimatesIBESDaily Detailed History, Summary History
U.S. Treasury interest ratesCRSPBonds, Bills, and Inflation files
Bank financialsCOMPUSTATBank Annual / Quarterly
Banking industry conditionsFDICAll files
U.S. Macro EconomicsGlobal Insight (formerly DRI)Annual, Quarterly and, Monthly BASIC Economics
International EconomicsGlobal Insight (formerly DRI)Annual, Quarterly and, Monthly BASIC Economics
International Firm-level dataCOMPUSTAT/Global VantageAnnual
OptionsOptionmetricsDaily
Executive CompensationCOMPUSTAT/ExeccompAnnual

Categories: Finance, Accounting, Economics, Management, Stocks, Mutual Funds, Bonds, Marketing, Banking, Insurance