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Economics

The Economics subject guide gives you access to useful library databases and trusted Web resources, relevant for researching many topics in economics or finance

General

For details of the Library's financial and company databases, see the appropriate sections of the  Business & Management Subject Guide

The most useful databases, with global coverage, are likely to be:
BankFocus (bank finances)
Bloomberg (only available from the Essex Business School trading floor)
Eikon/Datastream (via LSEG Workspace)
Orbis (company accounts, including private companies medium size and upwards)
PI Filings Expert (company documents & filings)
WRDS (Compustat for public companies; CRSP for historic US securities prices)

Mintel, Passport, EMIS (emerging markets) and Statista may be useful for consumer industries, markets & trends. Mintel is mostly UK, the others have global coverage

 

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