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WRDS

Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) is an Internet-based data service from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. WRDS provides a simple, powerful web data interface for a variety of financial research applications, plus technical support to programming in SAS, FORTRAN, or C.   Financial support for WRDS is jointly provided by UT Knoxville's Haslam College of Business and the University Libraries.

WRDS access is limited to faculty and graduate student researchers at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.  For further information about accessing to WRDS at UT, contact Dr. Chad Autry at the Haslam College of Business. To request an account visit the WRDS website.

The University of Tennessee's WRDS subscription includes access to: (description of each is https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu/pages/about/data-vendors/)

Audit Analytics

Fama French & Liquidity Factors

Bank Regulatory

First Call

Blockholders

IBES: Institutional Brokers Estimate System

Bureau van Dijk

IRRC/Investor Responsibility Research Center  

CBOE Indexes

Nastraq

COMPUSTAT North America and Global

PHLX

CRSP: Center for Research in Security Prices 

Penn World Tables

DMEF Academic Data 

Risk Metrics

Dow Jones Averages

SEC Order Execution

EVENTUS

TAQ (Daily TAQ (Milliseconds) 2014 dataset)

FDIC: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

TRACE

Thomson Reuters: Mutual Funds Holdings

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) Research Paper Series (open source)

WRDS tips