Research databases
Derivatives / Options
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Eikon (also see LSEG Workspace)
Database description
LSEG Workspace contains information on commodities, equities, fixed income securities and hedge funds, foreign exchange and money markets, and wealth management.
Various services are available via the Workspace platform, in particular the Datastream database.
The database
- contains tools for navigating news, including videos of live and on-demand equity news broadcasts.
- offers key market data, charts, time series analysis and streaming news from Reuters and other financial institutions and market research companies for price analysis and global indices of individual stocks.
- contains charts and fundamental data, proprietary data and analysis to provide actionable insights into the global stock market.
Keywords: Bonds and fixed Income , Company Info and Financial Statements , Currency Exchange Rates , Deriatives / Options , Indices and Factors , Stock Prices / Markets
Access information
Please contact us for access to LSEG Workspace and Datastream.
E-Mail to: lica-data@wiso.uni-koeln.de
Tutorials
Learning Centre:
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WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services)
Database description
Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) is a web-based platform from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. It integrates data from numerous financial and economic databases into a single interface, allowing users to search, link, and store data uniformly, thereby facilitating comparability and combined data analysis.
The database offerings are divided into two categories:
Databases included with the base WRDS subscription (included datasets & analytics):
- Bank Regulatory
- Blockholders
- CBOE
- DMEF
- Dow Jones
- Fama French
- FDIC
- Federal Reserve Bank Reports
- IRI
- OTC Markets
- Penn World Tables
- Philadelphia Stock Exchange
- SEC Disclosure of Order Execution
- TRACE
Databases accessible via WRDS with an additional licence purchased from the respective data provider (Additional Datasets & Analytics), e.g.
- Amadeus/Orbis
- Audit + Compliance
- COMPUSTAT
- CRSP
- Eventus
- I/B/E/S
- MFLinks
- Ownership
- Worldscope…
Keywords: Banks , Bonds and fixed Income , Company Info and Financial Statements , Currency Exchange Rates , Derivatives / Options , Indices and Factors , Stock Prices / Markets , Statistics, Economy
Access information
How do I get access into WRDS?
To apply for WRDS access, you must meet the following requirements:
- You are a member (student or employee) of the WiSo faculty.
- You have a valid Uni-Köln identifier (Uni-KIM).
1. Faculty internal application procedure
The following groups of people can apply for a WRDS account:
| Group | Account-Type | Registration form |
| Professors, Assistant Professor | Faculty-Account | Download Form (Employee) |
| Scientific staff, PhD student | PhD-Account | Download Form (Employee) |
| Student assistants | Research Assistant-Account | Download Form (Student) |
| Master students | Masters-Account | Download Form (Student) |
- Please fill out the appropriate registration form digitally,
- sign it (for student accounts, the signature of the supervising person is also absolutely necessary) and
- send it to lica-data(at)wiso.uni-koeln(dot)de.
Following this, you can create a personal account at WRDS as described below.
2. Personal registration on the WRDS platform
- Open in the web browser: https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu/register/
- Fill out the online form and select "University of Cologne" in the subscriber field and select your appropriate account type in the User Type field.
- After registration, an email will be sent to the WRDS administrators who will then verify WiSo faculty affiliation.
- Once approved by the WRDS administrators, your personal WRDS account will be created and you will receive a confirmation email with information on how to proceed.
Important notice
If you already have a WRDS account - active or recently inactive - do not request another WRDS account. Use the account-transfer-form to automatically transfer the account or contact the WRDS Support.