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WRDS - Wharton Research Data Services
Platform hosting financial, accounting, banking, economics, management, marketing, and public policy databases accessible through a single interface.
WRDS is a web-based business data research service from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Strengths include deep archives of historical data, a common web interface for access to all WRDS databases, and a variety of output file formats.
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WRDS accounts are not provided or available for access during the summer or extended semester breaks.
See WRDS Cloud documentation for details on connecting via SSH to run programs in SAS, Python, R, or Stata.
WRDS has upgraded account security by utilizing Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) by Duo Security. Users should review How to Log In to WRDS Using WRDS 2FA by Duo.
Use of WRDS is limited to academic and non-commercial research purposes. The right to access licensed databases and copyrighted material on the WRDS system is only for internal or academic research. You may not use data downloaded from WRDS for any commercial endeavor. In addition, you may not reveal, disclose, transfer, or share username and password information with anyone. Additional restrictions apply. See WRDS Terms of Use .