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Below is a representative listing of databases currently offered at Carlson School of Management. For a full listing, login to WRDS.

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VENDOR	DATABASE	DESCRIPTION	ACCESS
Bloomberg	Bloomberg Terminals	A continuous data feed service that includes real-time,historical and descriptive data, analytics and news on a number of markets and securities.The database includes info from all global regions, including exchange-traded and "over the counter" markets.	Carlson School Lab L-113 and Financial Markets Lab
Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing	BANKSCOPE	BankScope - financial data on 13,000 banks worldwide	WRDS OR MINT (access from UMN campus) OR ORBIS
Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing	BANKSCOPE Historical Data	BankScope - financial data on 13,000 banks worldwide (18-20 years)	Not available online. Must be requested through research office(2+ weeks)
Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing	ORBIS	Financial data on 43 million+ private and public companies worldwide -- includes what is covered in AMADEUS (European firms), plus OSIRIS (more detail on public firms) - includes BRIC, emerging markets etc.	ORBIS
Center for Research in Security Prices	CRSP	CRSP is a collection of datasets with basic and derived information for securities traded in on U.S. exchanges (NYSE, AMEX, and NASDAQ). Monthly data starts generally in 1925, while daily data starts in 1962 Our subscription currenly includes Annual Stock 1925 & Treasury, Compustat Merged (CRSP / Compustat), Quarterly Mutual Fund	WRDS
Centre Indian Economy	Prowess	Prowess is a database of large and medium Indian firms. It contains detailed information on over 10,000 firms.	No longer available. Please use ORBIS
Cowan Research	Eventus	Eventus Software performs event studies that compute abnormal returns for specific corporate actions or events using data directly from the CRSP stock database.	WRDS
Euromonitor International	GMID	International market intelligence on industries, countries and consumers.	Global Market Information Database
Gartner	Gartner Online	Online service providing product and market research reports for the information technology (IT) industry as well as reports on technologies used within various spheres of business and electronic commerce.	Gartner
Hoovers	Hoovers Online	Online subscription includes reports on companies, industries and initial public offerings (IPOs).	Hoovers
Loan Pricing Corp	Dealscan	DealScan is a database of deal terms and conditions on loans, high yield bonds, private placements, and hybrid financing structures originated globally since 1988 through 2003. Information includes borrower, lender, purpose, amount, fees, covenants, financials and more. As of 2003, there were more than 130,000 loan and bond transactions in the database.	Request Web access no longer offered.
Morningstar	Principia Suite	CD-Rom based investment research and portfolio diagnostic software for financial advisors and stock brokers	Request
New York Stock Exchange	TAQ - Trades and Quotes 1993 - 2007	TAQ - Trades & Quotes - The Trade and Quote database contains intraday transactions data (trades and quotes) for all securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and American Stock Exchange (AMEX), as well as Nasdaq National Market System (NMS) and Small Cap issues.	WRDS
RISC Metrics – formerly IRRC	Governance/Directors data	RiskMetrics (through ISS Governance Services) is a leader in corporate governance data. They deliver to WRDS* two datasets identified as RiskMetrics Group Historical Governance and Historical Directors data.	WRDS
Standard & Poor's	Compustat	These sets of databases contain both U.S. and Canadian fundamental and market information on more than 24,000 active and inactive publicly held companies. It provides more than 300 annual and 100 quarterly Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Cash Flows, and supplemental data items.	WRDS
Standard & Poor's	Execucomp	This dataset includes over 80 different compensation items on more than 12,500 executives (top five executive officers per company) in companies included in the S&P 500, S&P 400 MidCap and S&P SmallCap 600 indexes; over 35 measures of company financial performance taken from Compustat. The data is annual and available from 1992 forward.	WRDS
Thomson Financial	Datastream-Stock Price & Events	Extensive historical financial database offering global coverage of equities, bonds,derivatives ,stock market indexes, commodities and many other data markers.	Request
Thomson Financial	Delphion Patent - US/Europe	Online full search database of U.S. and European patents	Delphion
Thomson Financial	SDC Platinum	-VentureXpert (JV Alliance) - Securities Trading - Corporate Restructurings - Bankruptcies - Mergers & Acquisitions - Global New Issues (IPOS) - CDA Historical 13F	SDC Portal
WRDS	Mutual Funds Links (MFLINKS)	MFLINKS tables provides a reliable means to join CRSP Mutual Fund (MFDB) data that covers mutual fund performance, expenses, and related information to equity holdings data in the TFN/CDA S12 datasets. Using MFLINKS allows a researcher to gather detail on holdings for either particular funds or fund families and groups of funds at specific points in time.	WRDS

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