Data Scholarship in Business and Economics

Company, industry, and economic data and news from the London Stock Exchange Group including ESG, M&A, and robust charting.
Note: This resource requires you to create a user account.

100+ years of historical financial data from the London Stock Exchange Group typically accessed via Excel Add-In by expert researchers using LSEG Workspace for desktop, although LSEG Workspace web access is also available. Full disclosure: Datastream historical time series can be difficult to locate in either interface; see linked guide for more details.

50+ years of joint venture data from the London Stock Exchange Group accessed via LSEG Workspace.

The Nielsen datasets can only be used by registered Purdue faculty (tenure-track/tenured), PhD students, and postdocs who have an approved project (projects are approved by Chicago Booth/Kilts Center). Please use the link above to request a registration code using the "Find My Institution" box. Our subscription includes the following:

Consumer Panel Data: information about product purchases made by a panel of consumer households across all retail outlets in all US markets. Retail Scanner Data: weekly purchase and pricing data generated from participating retail store point-of-sale systems in all US markets.
Ad Intel Data: covers advertisement occurrences for a variety of media types across the United States.

For more information about eligibility and the project approval process, please visit https://research.chicagobooth.edu/nielsen/policies.

A top resource for private market data -- startups, private equity and venture capital investors, angel investors, limited partners like foundations and sovereign wealth funds, plus deals, funding rounds, and more. Also provides information about public and private companies plus market research. 

A top resource for company financials/valuations. Includes information on equities, credit ratings, competitors, transactions, and more. Explore pricing across markets including indices, commodities, and more. Use hundreds of data points to generate lists of companies, markets, or executives. Includes an optional Excel plug-in.
Note: This resource requires you to create a user account.
 

Provides single-point access to over 350 terabytes of data across multiple disciplines, including Finance, Marketing, and Economics. Developed by the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania for data management and research.
Note: This resource requires you to create a user account that will then trigger a request for WRDS administrator approval. Access is typically restricted to faculty and graduate students, but instructors can request an account for their undergraduate courses.