{"id":87,"date":"2024-10-02T21:12:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T21:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/businesslab\/?page_id=87"},"modified":"2026-07-28T16:05:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:05:00","slug":"wrdsresources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/businesslab\/wrdsresources\/","title":{"rendered":"Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"168\" height=\"62\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/businesslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/158\/2024\/10\/WRDS-logo-sm.jpg\" alt=\"WRDS-logo-sm\" class=\"wp-image-88\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) is the award-winning research platform and business intelligence tool for over 30,000 corporate, academic, government and nonprofit clients at over 375 institutions in 33 countries.&nbsp;WRDS provides users with a single location to access over 200 terabytes of data across multiple disciplines, including Accounting, Banking, Economics, Finance, ESG, and Statistics.&nbsp;Flexible data delivery options include a powerful web query method that reduces research time.&nbsp;WRDS provides access to Compustat, CRSP, and other important business research databases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WRDS is available to all our JCoB faculty, staff and students (actively taking business classes).\u00a0Access could be granted to others on a case-by-case basis, taking into consideration academic purpose, expected usage, and resource constraints. Any resulting presentation, publication, or outcome from the work must properly attribute the support\/resources of the Jones College of Business.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Link:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wrds-web.wharton.upenn.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/wrds-web.wharton.upenn.edu\/<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">WRDS&nbsp;Account Registration&nbsp;Checklist<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list is-style-compact-list\">\n<li>Create your WRDS account at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wrds-web.wharton.upenn.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/wrds-web.wharton.upenn.edu\/<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select &#8220;<strong>Register<\/strong>&#8221; and enter all the required information.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You will receive&nbsp;an email with further instructions.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You can use WRDS from any computer with Internet access.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">WRDS Data Sources&nbsp;Checklist<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We currently have access to the following data sources:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list is-style-compact-list\">\n<li>Banking Suite by WRDS<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Beta Suite by WRDS<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Blockholders<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CBOE (Chicago Board Options Exchange) Indexes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>COMPUSTAT Capital IQ Identifiers<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>COMPUSTAT Bank<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>COMPUSTAT North America -monthly update (current + historical data)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>COMPUSTAT Historical Seg<\/strong>ments<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Contributed Data at WRDS<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>CRSP Stock Annual<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CSMAR Sample<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>DMEF Academic Data<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Efficient Frontier by WRDS<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>European Short Data by WRDS<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Event Study by WRDS<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>External Data Sources<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>FAMA French &amp; 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