mfe & the business library c.b. “bud” johnston library alie visser, business librarian...
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MFE & The Business Library
C.B. “Bud” Johnston Library
Alie Visser, Business [email protected]
www.lib.uwo.ca/business/
Who We Are• 5 full-time staff members:
Elizabeth, Alie, Dolly, Patrick, and Jean
• Contact us via email at [email protected]
• Call us at 519-661-3941
• Follow us! @westernulibsBUS
Library Services
• Research Help• Find Answers Quickly• Business Chat & Text• www.lib.uwo.ca/business/
Databases• Over 60 databases
• Business Databases by Subject
• Economics – Financial Economics Research Guide
Finding Business News
Business Databases by Subject
Articles
Business & Economics Magazines & Journals
Finding Country & Economic Info1. Business Monitor
2. Economist Intelligence Unit
3. OECD iLibrary
4. Passport (Euromonitor)
5. Political Risk Yearbook
Bloomberg Professional
• Equities, securities, companies• Bonds, fixed income• Indices, commodities, currencies• Economic data• Data sets
What is itused for?
Helpful Beginner Codes
• TK Ticker
• EQS Equity screener
• GRAB Send screen to email
• BU Bloomberg university – seminars, events, training
Economic Codes
• ECFC - Economic Forecasts• ECO - Economic Calendar Releases• ECOS - Economist Estimates• ECST - World Economic Statistics• FED - Federal Reserve• GDP - Gross Domestic Product• GDPP - Gross Domestic Product Per Capita
Bloomberg via Excel
• Extracting large data sets• More than one security• Import Bloomberg tickers, CUSIP, ISIN and
retrieve data
WRDS• Wharton Research Data Services• Incudes access to:
• Compustat: global firm financials going back to 1950 for most
• CRSP: stock and index pricing, returns and volume going back to 1925- (monthly) or 1962- (daily)
• I/B/E/S: historical earnings estimates for global firms going back to 1976-
WRDS• Fama-French Portfolios and Factors:
1926 • Federal Reserve Bank Reports: includes
foreign exchange rates (1971-), interest rates (1919-) and Philadelphia State Indexes (1979-)
• Bureau of Labor Statistics: 1913-• Bureau of Economic Analysis: 1969-• TRACE: OTC Corporate Bond (US)
Transaction Data going back to 2002-