The General Social Survey (ALLBUS) collects current data on:
attitudes
behaviour patterns
social structure
of the population in the Federal Republic of Germany. Since 1980, a representative cross-section of the population has been surveyed every two years using a partly fixed, partly variable set of questions. This ensures access to current statistics and supports time-series analysis. Once processed and documented in a user-friendly format, the data is immediately available to all interested parties for research and teaching
distributes the world's largest collection of economics case studies on behalf of all major business schools and internationally renowned authors.
offers training on teaching, learning and writing case studies.
awards scholarships to new case study authors and teachers.
publishes literature on case study methods.
offers authors an efficient and effective service for the worldwide publication and distribution of their case studies.
More information about The Case Centre
The Case Centre offers case studies from the following business schools, among others:
Harvard Business Publishing,
Ivey Publishing,
Darden Business Publishing,
INSEAD,
IBS Hyderabad,
IMD,
London Business School.
The WiSo Faculty is a member of “The Case Centre”. The membership entitles WiSo Faculty staff to purchase case studies at discounted prices and on their own account; the minimum order quantity is five copies per case study.
CESSDA (Council of European Social Science Data Archives) is an informal association of European data archives, fostering open access and extensive exchange of data and expertise. Its catalogue includes over 40.000 datasets. Founded in June 1976 in Amsterdam by the European data archives of the time, CESSDA serves as a key repository of social science data, particularly on the following European countries:
The integrated global database Compustat from S&P Global provides balance sheet and market data for active and inactive listed companies in a standardised format. The following Compustat modules are available:
Compustat Global & daily updates: Non-U.S. and non-Canadian fundamental and market information on over 33,900 active and inactive publicly held companies
Compustat North America & daily updates: U.S. and Canadian fundamental and market information on 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. For most companies, annual history is available back to 1950 and quarterly history back to 1962 with monthly market history back to 1962. Compustat North America files also contain information on aggregates, industry segments, banks, market prices, dividends, and earnings.
Compustat Historical Segments: supplements the ‘North America’ module with historical data, for over 23,000 North American companies since 1976
Compustat data is provided via the Wharton Research Data Service (WRDS) interface. (Access via WRDS)
The Centre for Research of Security Prices (CRSP) offers a joint query of the following financial indicators: Stock market and company data for over 32,000 active and inactive securities with primary listings on the NYSE, NYSE American, NASDAQ, NYSE Arca and Bats stock exchanges, as well as CRSP broad market indices:
CRSP 1925 Stock Database
CRSP /Compustat Merged Database
CRSP Index History Files
Balance sheet and market data for active and inactive listed companies in standardised form:
Compustat North America: U.S. and Canadian fundamental and market information on 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. For most companies, annual history is available back to 1950 and quarterly history back to 1962 with monthly market history back to 1962. Compustat North America files also contain information on aggregates, industry segments, banks, market prices, dividends, and earnings.
Compustat Historical Segments: supplements the ‘North America’ module with historical data, for over 23,000 North American companies since 1976
The database provides detailed historical data such as share prices, market capitalisations, dividends, etc. for approximately 75,000 stocks worldwide, including both industrialised and emerging markets. It provides access to over 400,000 international macroeconomic time series with indicators for 215 countries, exchange rates for 45 countries and over 2,000 interest rates. The data is divided into the following categories:
Equities, including:
Asset4 ESG environmental, social, governance research data
IBES analyst estimates
Worldscope company fundamental data items and financial ratios
equity indices
constituent lists
bonds
bond indices
interest & exchange rates
economics - international macroeconomics
unit and investment trusts
commodities
futures & options
warrants
Sources include stock exchanges, government institutions (central banks, etc.) and international organisations such as the OECD and IMF.
Depending on the licence, the following modules are included:
The database “Deutschland in Zahlen” from the iwd - Information Service of the German Economic Institute offers statistical indicators on economic and social development in Germany. The data ranges from labour market to purchasing power to balance of payments. In addition to regional and national statistics, there is also a wealth of information on Germany in international comparison.
The offering is supplemented by dossiers on current topics and infographics.
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.
The European Social Survey is an ongoing social science survey that has been examining the social and political attitudes of citizens from over 30 European countries since 2002. The core module explores changes and continuity in a range of social variables, including:
social and public trust
political interest and participation
socio-political orientations
media use
moral, political and social values
social exclusion
national, ethnic and religious affiliations
well-being, health and safety
demographic and socio-economic conditions.
The data portal provides free access to the results and documentation.
EUR-Lex is a comprehensive service provided by the Publications Office of the European Union.
Among other things, the database offers:
access to the official journal of the European Union, which is published daily. It appears in two series: L (legislation) and C (notices and announcements).
a collection on the sources of EU law and their life cycles, including for example, treaties, EU Legislation, parliamentary questions and international agreements.
provides information on how European and national law interact, listing national case law and implementing measures in EUR-Lex, with the relevant national legislation available via the linked N-Lex.
documents on European legislative procedures can also be researched on the website. This allows tracking the progress of legal acts from proposal to adoption.
EUR-Lex provides research support, including references, summaries, and a document search by EU institutions.
Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union, providing statistics for EU institutions, Member State authorities, businesses, and the media. Its data support country and regional comparisons, inform EU decision-making, and help the public understand and review these decisions.
The database provides more than 300 million data points covering the 28 EU Member States, EU regions, European cities and partner countries. The thematic focus is on economic, demographic and social statistics.
In addition to data and statistics, the website also provides Eurostat publications such as books, reports and brochures.
The website and its content are available in English, German and French.
GENESIS is a metadata-supported statistical information system developed by Germany‘s Federal Government and federal states (Länder) statistical offices.
It offers access to a wide range of official statistics through metadata-supported search, allowing users to view, customise, and download data freely.
The Global Industry Classification Standard is a four-level classification system for different industries developed by Standard & Poor's and MSCI for the financial world. The four levels are:
sectors
industry groups
industries
sub-industries
The classification system includes the following sectors:
cyclical consumer goods
basic consumer goods
energy
financial services
healthcare
industry
information technology
raw materials
telecommunications services
utilities
The framework is reviewed annually to ensure that global market dynamics are accurately reflected.
The IAB information platform of the Institute for Employment Research provides structured bibliographies, full texts, research information and additional links free of charge. The selected topics include:
The I/B/E/S database contains the earnings estimates (EPS) of banks and individual analysts. The estimates are offered to American companies (HSEPSUS) and international companies (HSEPSINT). Explore I/B/E/S on WRDS to access summary and individual analyst forecasts of company earnings, estimates and recommendations. Enhance your research using I/B/E/S, I/B/E/S Global Aggregates, I/B/E/S Key Performance Indicators (KPI), and I/B/E/S Guidance.
Within I/B/E/S, access:
I/B/E/S Global Aggregates Extract earnings forecasts plus related data for 87 countries and major international indices — global asset allocation, cross-border valuation, sector and industry aggregation and derivatives.
I/B/E/S Key Performance Indicators (KPI) Effectively evaluate a business and how likely it is to perform in the medium and long terms. KPIs allow researchers to effectively evaluate a business and how likely it is to perform in the medium and long terms.
I/B/E/S Guidance Directly compare analyst and management expectations on company performance for over 8,200 companies, safe in the knowledge that they are using the same accounting basis for consistent analysis.
IEA Statistics provides a comprehensive selection of consistent, up-to-date and reliable energy data and statistics from the International Energy Agency, including charts and tables on 16 energy topics for more than 170 countries and regions.
The IEA collects, evaluates and disseminates statistics on supply, trade, stocks, transformation and demand in the energy sector. It provides access to energy balances and a range of other key energy-related indicators, including:
energy prices
public R&D
energy efficiency measures.
The platform can be used, for example, for modelling work and tracking both short-term developments and long-term trends in countries’ energy transitions.
International Statistical Yearbook (or AllThatStats)
The International Statistical Yearbook (or AllThatStats) compiles data from national and international institutions such as EUROSTAT, DG ECFIN, OECD, IMF (including IFS, International Financial Statistics), World Bank, UNIDO, UNECE, US macroeconomic data, Deutsche Bundesbank, Federal Statistical Office, DIW (German Institute for Economic Research).
The EU statistics provides information on:
foreign trade
country tables
total trade
trade balance
national accounts
economic surveys
energy
agriculture
tourism
retail trade
international Monetary Fund
united Nations
industrial Development Organisation
The database contains over 1.8 million quarterly, half-yearly and annual time series since 1960.
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.
MarketLine Advantage is a database that supports international market, industry and company research. The data is organised into the following categories:
industry profiles for research on industries and markets in various countries. These provide a concise overview of the market situation.
company profiles including data on company history, business activities, competitors, in some cases SWOT analyses, etc.
case studies
country information with macroeconomic data and indicators, as well as a political overview (PEST / PESTLE)
news archive for industry-related briefings (company news, financial deals)
social media analytics
Number of data records: more than 6,000 industry profiles, more than 100,000 company profiles (with over 12,000 SWOT analyses), more than 18,000 company financial information records, more than 450 case studies and around 110 country analyses.
Depending on the licence, users may also access interactive databases that allow them to create your own datasets and analyses.
The MF Links (Mutual Fund Links) database provides tables that offer a reliable way to link CRSP Mutual Fund data (fund performance, costs, additional information) with data on securities holdings from Thomson Reuters' Mutual Fund Ownership Current and History database.
Morningstar Direct is an investment analysis platform that combines Morningstar's data and institutional research with proprietary and external content, rigorous analysis, data science capabilities, and productivity tools. The database contains information on:
The database provides information on securities holdings for all registered investment funds that report their stock holdings to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The securities included comprise all NYSE/AMEX/NASDAQ, Toronto, and Montreal common stocks.
The database contains international press information, company and financial data, information on individuals from business, politics and current affairs, as well as industry data, country reports and legal information in various original languages (including English, French, Arabic, Russian and Chinese).
Nexis Uni contains data from over 17,000 news, company and legal sources:
Press: Full texts from several thousand journals, magazines and newspapers. Including newsletters, agency reports, blogs, TV and radio transcripts and records from around the world, including archives.
News: Articles from several thousand journals, magazines and newspapers from around the world, including archives.
Companies: Various sources offer research options on companies in different countries, company profiles or specific details such as finances, mergers, acquisitions and annual reports.
Industries & countries: International industry information, economic articles on individual countries and industry news.
People: Biographical information on figures in business, politics, entertainment and other leading individuals in specific fields.
Law: Legal information on cases, decisions and laws, particularly for the Anglo-American region.
Through a unified interface, users can search across all sources and personalize their research with alerts, saved searches and other functions. The platform also includes collaboration tools to support teamwork among students.
OPEN ACCESS: all OECD publications and data is freely accessible since July 2024. This does not apply to the IEA Statistics of the International Energy Agency. Information on how to access IEA Statistics.
Orbis Europe contains information on around 143 million small, medium-sized and large European companies, banks and insurance companies. Company and investment data as well as financial figures from listed and unlisted companies for the last 10 years are available.
With Orbis, you can analyse individual companies, search for companies with specific characteristics and perform a wide variety of evaluations and comparisons.
The data records contain the following information, among other things:
standardised financial statement data (consolidated and non-consolidated)
financial ratios, ratings and creditworthiness indicators
board members, managing directors and managers
share prices of listed companies
detailed corporate affiliations
industry reports
M&A transactions from the BvD Zephyr database (on a company basis)
PreLex, the database of interinstitutional procedures, allows you to follow the various stages of the European legislative process involving the Commission and legislative organ (council and parliament), and other bodies and institutions.
You can find information on:
the status of the procedure
the decisions taken by the institutions
the names of the people involved
the responsible departments
The database also provides bibliographical information and insighto the work of the various institutions (European Parliament, Council, Economic and Social Committee, Committee of the Regions, European Central Bank, Court of Justice, etc.).
The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement (SHARE) is an interdisciplinary panel database with survey data from more than 140,000 respondents aged 50 and older. First launched in 2004, it supports research on population ageing and the diverse living conditions of people aged 50 and older in Europe and Israel.
The topics covered include:
health
social and economic status
social and family ties
SHARE is coordinated by the Munich Centre for Ageing Economics (MEA) and is harmonised with the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) and the US Health and Retirement Study (HRS).
Statista is a statistics portal that compiles data from 170 industries and over 150 countries drawing from various institutes and sources.
The database offers:
over 1 million statistics on over 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 different sources
industry information ranging from agriculture to administration and social affairs
company information with key figures from over 1,000 companies
infographics on current topics (Daily Data)
Each statistic includes available metadata, such as source, publication date, and sample size, ensuring transparency and verifiability. Data processing follows scientific standards. In the “Reports”-section, you will find over 20,000 reports offering consolidated information, analyses, and forecasts on:
The Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) is a repeated representative survey that has been running for 30 years.
Commissioned by DIW Berlin, around 30,000 respondents in nearly 11,000 households across Germany are surveyed each year by TNS Infratest Social Research. The data provide information on topics such as
income
employment
education
health
Because the same people are surveyed every year, long-term social and societal trends can be tracked especially well.
The statistics portal provides centralised access to basic statistical information from the 16 state statistical offices and the Federal Statistical Office, enabling cross-state comparisons.
It offers a wide range of e data tables with information on Germany and all federal states, covering topics such as:
energy
mobility
education
prosperity
The portal also links to the statistical databases GENESIS-Online and the Regional Database Germany. In addition, there is a directory of all publications, links to the research data centres and to the classifications and systems used in official statistics.
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.
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.
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