Changes coming to access procedures for WRDS

Published November 21, 2022 by Mark Bodnar

Starting next week (Nov. 28, 2022), the procedures for accessing our WRDS financial datasets will change. Wharton Research Data Services has already emailed current registered users about the new procedures, but I thought I'd post the main details and ways to learn more for anyone who missed the emails...

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Expiring soon: DealScan & CSMAR

Published October 14, 2020 by Mark Bodnar

Are you contemplating a research project that involves data on Chinese publicly traded firms? Or how about global commercial loan data?

If so, don't procrastinate! We have grant-funded, short-term dataset subscriptions that are perfect for both topics, and both are set to expire soon...

<Read on for info about CSMAR and DealScan!>

Here for a year... global commercial loan data via Thomson Reuters DealScan

Published April 3, 2020 by Mark Bodnar

I'm very pleased to announce that SFU researchers have access to the Thomson Reuters DealScan datatset via WRDS for one year (to March 31, 2021)!

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DealScan provides data on deals in the global commercial loan market, with detailed coverage of loan terms & conditions back to 1988, and selected coverage to 1981.

Alert! Use BoardEx & RepRisk before they expire - end of February

Published February 1, 2020 by Mark Bodnar

Heads-up that our subscriptions to both BoardEx and RepRisk will expire at the end of this month. These datasets were both paid for through one-

time faculty research grant funding, so there is very little chance of an extension to either subscription.

<Read on for details about the North America module of BoardEx via WRDS and the Premium Edition of RepRisk via WRDS.>

Here until December 2020: Data on listed firms in China

Published September 12, 2019 by Mark Bodnar

'm very pleased to announce that SFU researchers have access until Dec. 2020 to a collection of detailed data on publicly traded firms in China.

This short-term subscription was funded with support from a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada research grant held by Prof. Ray Zhang, but the resource is available to all SFU researchers.

Each of the six datasets from CSMAR (China Stock Market & Accounting Research) covers firms listed on China's Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges. And they are...

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Here for a year... BoardEx + RepRisk datasets: Corporate Board composition & ESG indicators

Published March 4, 2019 by Mark Bodnar

Does your research require access to data on board composition or environmental, social & governance (ESG) indicators for corporations? If so, then I have some great news for you regarding...

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Trial: ESG data via WRDS (Environmental, Social, Governance)

Published November 23, 2015 by Mark Bodnar

SFU researchers now have trial access to a collection of ESG data via our WRDS financial data interface. This trial of RepRisk ESG data will end on Oct. 19, 2016 (yes -- 2016!). The RepRisk data includes severity measures for each of 28 different issues (child labor, local pollution, freedom of association...) within the broader categories of Environmental, Social, and Governance. <more>

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