MBA 232-1: Financial Institutions and Markets

Global Financial Data

• US stock prices
• US and worldwide macroeconomic data
• Very long historical series

Wharton Research Data Service (WRDS)

• Company financials from COMPUSTAT
• Stock prices from CRSP
• Stock ownership from Thomson Reuters
• Economic data from Global Insight
• Earnings estimates from I/B/E/S
• Many ways to manipulate data, using SPSS or UNIX-type commands
• Use MFE login for remote access and expert commands

Datastream

• Huge database of international, historical data
• Stocks and bonds, indexes, macroeconomic data, options, futures, exchange rates, and more
• Confusing interface
• Can only be used from the standalone terminal in Long Library

SDC

• Mergers & acquisitions and new issuances of stocks and bonds, going back to the early 1980's
• Extremely confusing interface
• Can only be used from the standalone terminal in Long Library

This is not a comprehensive list of economic data sources available at UC Berkeley, but rather a sampling.

To explore the full range of online economic data sources, visit the Economics subject page.

• EconLit
  The most comprehensive index to scholarly journal articles in economics.
  
• Global Economic Monitor (GEM)
  Provides indicators in daily, monthly, quarterly and annual frequencies for developing and high-income countries.
  
• Global Financial Data (GFD)
  Contains long runs of historical data (over 6,000 series) on security markets and macroeconomic trends for over 150 countries.
  
• Historical Statistics of the United States (HSUS)
  Comprehensive statistics and quantitative facts on US history.
  
• ProQuest Statistical Insight
  Provides access to indexing and statistical tables from three key sources: American Statistics Index (ASI; 1973-present), Statistics Reference Index (SRI; 1980-present), and Index to International Statistics (IIS; 1983-present).
  
• Proquest Statistical Datasets
  Provides fast and easy one-stop shopping to more than 5.3 billion (and growing) data points from licensed and public domain datasets.
  
• National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
  Provides access to NBER research results through the working paper series.
  
• OECD iLibrary
  Full-text publications and statistical data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
  
• UNdata
  Wide range of economic, social, cultural, and demographic indicators from various United Nations agencies.