Here for a year... BoardEx + RepRisk datasets: Corporate Board composition & ESG indicators
Published by Mark BodnarDoes 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!
Board Composition data:
SFU now has a one-year subscription to the North America module of BoardEx via WRDS:
- The majority of the funding for BoardEx came from a SSHRC grant held by Prof. Karel Hrazdil. Also note that our subscription only covers access to the North America module of this database.
ESG data:
SFU now has a one-year subscription to the Premium Edition of RepRisk via WRDS:
- The majority of the funding for RepRisk came from a SSHRC grant held by Prof. Ray Zhang.
Note: As stated above, these are both one-year subscriptions, expiring at the end of February, 2020. At the moment, there are no funds identified for ongoing subscriptions to either dataset. I hope you are able to make use of these valuable resources while we have them!
(And if you do use this data, please do let me know -- it's always good to collect positive impact stories, especially about cases where individual grant funding has been leveraged to benefit the entire institution!)
Brochures about both BoardEx and RepRisk are attached. More detailed data dictionaries are available within WRDS.
For those who are new to the WRDS financial data interface, all SFU faculty and graduate students are eligible for WRDS Accounts. SFU undergraduate students have access to the same datasets via the WRDS General Access portal -- just enter your SFU email address when prompted.
- Mark
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Mark Bodnar
Business & Economics Librarian
mbodnar@sfu.ca