Research Database and Facilities

Databases and Softwares

The Department provides a number of databases, information systems and softwares to facilitate research and teaching.

Databases and Information Systems

• The following databases are available through WRDS
  • Audit Analytic
  • Bank regulatory
  • Boardex (North America)
  • Bureau Van Dijk (Bankscope)
  • Capital IQ (Capital Structure and Credit rating)
  • Compustat (North America, Global, Bank, Historical Segments, and Execucomp )
  • CRSP (Stock, Index, Treasury, and Crsp/Compustat merged databases)
  • IBES
  • ISS
  • Mergent FISD
  • TRACE 
• The following databases are available in CityU library 
  • BankFocus
  • Factiva
  • OECD iLibrary
  • OSIRIS
  • Thomson Reuters Eikon
• The following databases are available in EF department
  • Bloomberg Professional Service
  • CEIC Asia Database Version dX
  • CMA CDS data
  • Chinese Industry Enterprises Database (1998-2007)
  • CSMAR
  • Dealscan WRDS
  • Economic Property Research Centre
  • FactSet
  • IMF
  • Option Metric (IvyDB US and Global Indices)
  • PACAP
  • WIND Financial Database (WFT) 

Software

• Adobe Acrobat 
• E-Views
• FTS System Manager
• GAUSS 
• IBM SPSS Statistics 
• MathType
• MATLAB 
• Minitab 
• Python
• Rotman Interactive Trader Client
• SAS 
• Scientific WorkPlace 
• Scientific WorkPlace with MuPAD Pro 3
• STATA
• RATS (Regression Analysis of Time Series)
• Visual Studio
• zTree