WRDS Wharton Research Data Services
WRDS can only be used by users belonging to the University of Bologna, which is why our University has set up the following accreditation procedure.
Professors, researchers, research fellows and PhD students
From the platform you must register by entering your data and request authorisation to use the databases. The request will be validated by Unibo internal staff, who can be contacted at abis.wrds@unibo.it.
In order for the Unibo team to be able to validate requests it is necessary to fill in the Microsoft Form
Graduating students
Use of the resource is restricted to students preparing their dissertation. From the platform it is necessary to register by entering one's own data and in this case to validate the registration to Wrds we ask to receive at abis.wrds@unibo.it a communication from the supervisor certifying the student's status as an undergraduate.
Accounts will last 12 months for lecturers and researchers and six months for other users. At the end they will be renewed on request.
WRDS is subscribed by the Department of Business Sciences. In the subscribed version, the Wrds platform can be used to consult financial databases covering banks, listed companies of: