MBA 232-1: Financial Institutions and Markets

The Business Library has a large collection of books on accounting topcs, most of them around the HF5625 call number range.  Use the OskiCat catalog to search for books by keyword, subject heading, author, title, and more.

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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.
  

• CCH Capital Changes Reports
  Contains the complete capital change histories of over 58,000 corporations.
  
• Global Financial Data (GFD)
  Contains long runs of historical data (over 6,000 series) on security markets and macroeconomic trends for over 150 countries.
  

These books contain security price information and/or dividend information.

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Bureau of Economic Analysis
US economic accounts (national, regional and local) and the monthly publication Survey of Current Business.

Bureau of Labor Statistics
Employment/unemployment national, regional, local. Consumer and producer price indexes.

Liber8 - Federal Reserve of St. Louis Economic data
Links to banking and economic data for the US and internationally.

National Bureau of Economic Research
Research, publications, etc.
NBER working papers - search library catalog for NBER working papers by title or author (UCB resource only). Economic Data including the annual Economic Report of the President and Business Cycle Expansion and Contractions and NBER MacroHistory Database with pre-WWI and interwar economies, including production, construction, employment, money, prices, asset market transactions, foreign trade, and government activity.

Statistical Abstract of the United States
U.S. Bureau of the Census. Annual.
Prime source for US economic statistics.
HA203 .A3 Reference

Economist Intelligence Unit
Country Reports - monthly reports on 200 countries. Coverage of politics, economic policy, domestic economy, sector trends, and foreign trade and payments.
Country Profiles - in-depth annual reports covering political, economic and social sectors of each country.

Eurostat - European statistics

• Euroindicators contains a selection of the main monthly and quarterly indicators.
• Structural indicators present annual data for employment, innovation and research, economic reform, social cohesion, the environment and economic conditions. It also contains data on the United States and Japan.
• Regio database - regional data
• European Business Facts & Figures
  HC241.2 P251 Reference

Global Financial Database
Economic Series include current and historical Unemployment Rates, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Consumer and Producer Price Indices, Exchange Rates including spot rates, forward rates, black market rates and major cross rates. Commodity data with both cash and futures prices, Commodity Indices.

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Statistics for member countries from member country statistical authorities.

• International Financial Statistics
  Financial, trade and national accounts statistics published for 200+ countries. Includes exchange rates, IMF fund accounts and main global and country economic indicators. Available from 1948
• Direction of Trade Statistics
  Country exports and imports by their partners. 186 countries, 7 years of annual data

Lexis-Nexis Statistical
Global, national, regional statistics. Bibliographic citations for most - full data is available on microfiche. Lexis-Nexis Statistical Datasets - full datasets for select data series.

Source OECD - economics publications of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
Reports and statistics for OECD's 30 member countries which represent the world's most developed economies, as well as for some non-member countries. Includes Economic Outlook, Economic Surveys, Economic Studies, Economic Policy, National Accounts of OECD countries, Main Economic Indicators.
Economics glossary

World Bank: World Development Indicators
Annual data on 800 indicators relating to economic, demographic, social and environmental themes. 1960+

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