Oxford Handbooks Online. Economics and Finance

Provides scholarly articles on current and ongoing research in the area of Economics and Finance. Research in these articles examines topics such as the allocation and distribution of resources as well as their creation and exchange, whether at a given time or across it. The issues studied cover a broad range of topics, from health and education to crime and punishment, revenues and expenditures of governments and companies to how individuals respond to incentives, and the conditions of cooperation, coordination, or conflict. Essays from leading researchers provides look at current research on these topics.

ProQuest Research Companion

Developed by writing instructors and librarians, this resource consists of nine Learning Modules and seven interactive tools – designed to automate the basic parts of the research process. The multimedia-based learning modules engage students to think more critically and creatively about their research, while other interactive tools help students navigate through the research process more quickly to spend more time on the research that interests them most. ProQuest Research Companion adapts to all devices –- laptops, tablets, and smartphones.

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ProQuest International Datasets

Provides aggregated global macro-economic and demographic datasets from national governments, international organizations, and research firms on a national or sub-national (city, state, or province) level. Users can compare data from multiple sources and share their findings. ProQuest.

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Trial expires: Saturday, April 12, 2014

Statistical Abstracts of the World

Provides statistical data or citations to data from approximately 40 national governments’ statistical abstracts as well as compendia issued by international organizations and research firms. This resource works similarly to ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the U.S. and includes data that is not easily found elsewhere. Full text options for accessible data include PDF files, GIF formatted tables, and Excel spreadsheets. ProQuest.

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Trial expires: Saturday, April 12, 2014

Business Abstracts with Full Text

“Business Abstracts with Full Text offers a multitude of business magazines and scholarly journals: this comprehensive database contains the full text of articles from more than 510 key publications dating back to 1995, and provides access to product evaluations, interviews, biographical sketches, corporate profiles, obituaries, surveys, statistical rankings, book reviews and reports from associations, societies, trade shows, conferences and more. “

eStatement Studies

Contains composite financial data from anonymous financial statements of manufacturing, wholesaling, retailing, service, and contracting businesses operating in industries. Designed to be particularly useful to lending and credit risk professionals who want to compare one company’s performance relative to other companies in the same line of business.

PrivCo

Database of financial data on major privately-held companies. Includes private financials and revenues; private M&A deals and deal multiples, private firm valuations, VC funding, private equity deal history; and private and family ownership data.

The following resources have been discontinued:

• Kompass
• Mergent Bondviewer
• NYSE TAQ (was accessible in WRDS)
• OECD iLibrary
• Stratfor

Execucomp

This resource has been added to the WRDS interface.  ExecuComp offers executive compensation data including current, historical, total compensation, executive options and compensation of industry peers. ExecuComp provides full details on executive stock and option awards as well as pension plans to give you a complete picture of how executives are compensated. Selected company financial information enables you to compare executive pay versus company performance, revealing previously hard-to-find information. The ExecuComp database includes detailed breakouts of compensation data under the pre-2006 reporting rules so that you can research historical compensation trends. Select COMPUSTAT from current subscriptions. Scroll to Compustat Quarterly Updates and select Execucomp.

IBISWorld Industry Risk Ratings

This resource has been added to the IBISWorld subscription.