Wharton Research Data Services

WRDS is an Internet-based data subscription service that is provided by the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The data available are mainly related to business and finance and WRDS hosts the major numeric data sets used by academic researchers. 

WRDS access is licensed for current UTD faculty and graduate students.  To request an account, visit the WRDS registration page and use your utdallas.edu email address.

McDermott Library personnel will verify your status with the university and approve your account access.

If you leave UTD and move to another university with WRDS access, we can transfer your account .

Third Party Datasets accessible through WRDS *Some may be partial access

Audit Analytics

Bank Regulatory

Blockholders

BoardEx

CBOE Indexes

Compustat-Capital IQ

Contributed Data at WRDS

CRSP

CSMAR 

DMEF Academic

Dow Jones

External Data sources

Fama French

Federal Judicial Center

Federal Reserve Bank Reports

Historical SPDJI

IBES

IRI

ISS: Institutional Shareholder Services

Macro Finance Society

Mergent FISD

MSRB

MFLinks

Option Metrics

OTC Markets

Penn World Tables

Peters and Taylor Total Q

Philadelphia Stock Exchange

Public Data

Research Quotient

SEC Order Execution

TAQ

Thomson/Refinitiv

TRACE

 

WRDS Products

Efficient Frontier by WRDS

Event Study by WRDS

Financial Ratios Suite by WRDS

Intraday Indicators by WRDS

Linking Suite by WRDS

Option Suite by WRDS

WRDS Bond Returns

WRDS European Short Data

WRDS factors

World Indices by WRDS

WRDS Insiders Data

WRDS SEC Analytics Suite

WRDS US Patents

Venture Capital by WRDS