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Quantitative Finance & Accounting

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Wharton School (UPenn)

Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS Academic Demos)

Empirical corporate finance, Event Studies (M&A impact on stock price), earnings surprise regressions.

📊 Overview

Platform: Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS Academic Demos)

Domain: Quantitative Finance & Accounting

Maintained by: Wharton School (UPenn)

📥 Access & Resources

Access and formats:
Web interface, SAS, R/Python

SAS R Python

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R wrapper package:
RPostgres

Python wrapper package:
wrds

🎯 Teaching & Analysis

Empirical corporate finance, Event Studies (M&A impact on stock price), earnings surprise regressions.

Use this dataset to

  • Query financial and accounting databases with SQL
  • Analyze CRSP, Compustat, and TAQ data
  • Conduct event studies and earnings analyses
  • Teach empirical corporate finance methods

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