The Finance Department helps maintain an extensive set of research databases for faculty and students. The availability of our databases is made possible through the generous support of the Lerner College, the Unidel Foundation, Donald J. Puglisi, and gifts from many other alumni, faculty, and friends.  Thank you all for your support!

For examples of research produced with these databases, please visit our faculty research page.

The Lerner College subscribes to the Wharton Research Database Services network (WRDS), which provides web access to most of our data.  If you are a student and would like access to the WRDS-delivered databases, please contact your professor. The Wharton Research Database Services can be accessed at: http://wrds.wharton.upenn.edu/. Once you enter your username and password, you will see the list of databases to which UD subscribes.  This list is recreated below.  Click on each source to view the data description as provided by WRDS.

• Board Analyst
• COMPUSTAT North America
• CRSP
• EVENTUS
• IRI
• IRRC
• NYSE TAQ
• Thomson Financial

In addition, the department also maintains the following databases:

• SDC Platinum Merger and Acquisition Data
• SDC Platinum Global New Issues Data
• Equilar Board of Director and Director Compensation data