Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS)
Overview
Wharton Research Data Services, or WRDS, is a comprehensive web-based data management system that allows faculty and students to easily retrieve information from a wide variety of financial, economic, and marketing data sources. Building on the strengths of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and with other academic clients, WRDS has become an indispensable tool for academic research at the nation’s leading business schools.
WRDS is best known for its holdings of historical financial data from CRSP, CCM (CRSP/Compustat Merged Database), TAQ, IBES, ISSM and ExecuComp. Additional databases offered free of charge with the WRDS subscription include Dow Jones Averages, Philadelphia Stock Exchange and Federal Deposit Insurance. This data covers over 30,000 companies and includes security prices and trading volume, income and balance sheet items, and analyst projections for earnings and sales. WRDS also contains stock market indices, bond prices and interest rates, mutual fund and stock ownership information, options data, and a wide array of macroeconomic time series. International data, marketing and industry reports, and web usage data are also available on WRDS.
Access
All faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students from the University of Toronto will have access to WRDS. Register for an account in order to start using the resource. WRDS account registrations are approved by administrators during weekday working hours. There are no approvals during weekends or holidays.)
WRDS Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) by Duo Security
From November 28th, 2022, you can only access the WRDS web login using WRDS DUO 2FA. We encourage all users to review the WRDS 2FA documentation & FAQ for detailed instructions and answers to common questions. Click Here to access the WRDS DUO 2FA guide.
How To
WRDS guides you through the website and introduces you to query pages, innovative tools, comprehensive resources, and research support. create a wide range of
WRDS democratizes data access so that all disciplines can easily search for concepts across the data repository — hosting the broadest collection of data on the most robust computing infrastructure.
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- Getting Started
- What Data is in WRDS
- Conducting a Research Query
- Analytics by WRDS
- Research Tools, Sample Programs, and more
- WRDS Research Support
Flexible data delivery options include a powerful web query method that reduces research time; the WRDS Cloud for executing research and strategy development; and the WRDS client server using SAS, Python, R, Stata, Matlab, and more. Our rigorous data review and validation give users the confidence to tailor research and create a wide range of reliable data models.