Research Guides: Management Ph.D. Seminar Topics: Data Sources

Data Collections at Baruch

WRDS (Wharton)
A portal with a uniform web interface to current and historical datasets in finance, marketing, economics and banking.
Statista
Statistical information on over 600 industries from over 10,000 different sources, such as market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources. You may need to clear your browser cache to access this or use a browser in "private" or "incognito" mode.
Reference Solutions
Business directory with attributes and location for every individual business establishment in the US and Canada. Also includes a module that lists just new businesses.
ICPSR
Archive of social science data for supporting quantitative research. The data are available in a collection of files that include relevant documentation.

To download data, you will need to create a unique password. For further help, please contact the official representative, Prof.Betsy Yoon.
Eventus
(Baruch & CUNY SPS users only) Perform event studies using CRSP data to measure security changes resulting from mergers, acquisitions, and other corporate events. Available on WRDS. Requires registering for a daily password or long-term account using your Baruch or CUNY SPS email account.
NBER Working Papers
Working papers in economics from the National Bureau of Economics Research (NBER). Includes many of the datasets from their contributors.

GSS General Social Survey
Data on contemporary American society in order to monitor and explain trends and constants in attitudes, behaviors, and attributes. Hundreds of trends have been tracked since 1972. The GSS contains a standard core of demographic, behavioral, and attitudinal questions,GSS is a project of the independent research organization NORC at the University of Chicago, with principal funding from the National Science Foundation.

govinfo
Free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.

USA.gov
USA.gov is the U.S. government's official web portal to all federal, state, and local government web resources and services.
A-Z Index of U.S. Government Departments and Agencies
Alphabetical list of U.S. government agencies with links to the website and contact information (phone and email).
Regulations.Gov
Proposed regulations and related documents published by over 160 U.S. Federal government departments and agencies.You can search, view, and comment on the proposals.
Data.gov
The U.S. Government’s open data portal.

European Data Portal
A searchable collection of data sets available from public data portals across European countries. Organized by topic. Filter by country. With extensive metadata.
European Union Open Data Portal
Catalog of open data from European Union institutions.
figshare
Users can upload any research output: posters,presentations,datasets or code.
FRED
The St. Louis Fed's data repository, includes both international and US statistics and time series related to economics, finance, real estate, and demographics.
Harvard Dataverse
Repository for multidisciplinary research data that is free and open to all researchers.Includes datasets in business and economics.
Open Science Framework
An online collaboration tool and data archive operated by the Center for Open Science.
re3data.org
A registry of research data repositories. Search by keyword and filter by content/data type or country. Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
USA Facts
U.S. government data with a focus on population, government finances and the economy. A project of Steve Ballmer with partners: the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), the Penn Wharton Budget Model, and Lynchburg College.
World Bank Open Data
Includes statistics on global finance, economics, and demographics, with several different tools for visualizing and accessing data.

Data Management
A guide to data managment from the Graduate Center at CUNY. It covers: Formatting & organizing your data; Documenting your data effectively; Backing up and securing your data; Sharing & archiving your data; and Granting requirements for data management.