Databases
At Monash Business School, our researchers have access to a diverse range of databases that serve as essential resources for conducting high-quality research. Please find below the full list of databases available to support our academic endeavours.
| Product | Description |
|---|---|
| Audit Analytics "Accounting + Oversight" module and "Corporate + Legal" + Europe module | Audit Fees, Audit Opinions, Financial Restatements, and more |
| Bureau van Dijk. (Orbis) | Bureau van Dijk is a provider of both public and hard to reach private company information within the academic community. |
| Bloomberg | Bloomberg provides financial and operational data and news for 50,000+ issuers worldwide. |
| Eventus | Eventus performs event studies using data read directly from CRSP stock databases or pre-extracted from any source. |
| BoardEx Academic Research | Provides the educational background, prior employment, and connections of directors and executives. |
| Factiva | Factiva provides full text access to Australian newspapers, and newspapers and news wires from around the world. Besides newspapers, the database allows users to browse through a collection of global content sources from 200 countries – including continuously updated newswires from Dow Jones and Reuters, journals and magazines, websites, blogs, and multimedia. Factiva also includes brief company and industry profiles, financial information for listed companies worldwide, and global coverage of financial market data. |
| Fitch Solutions | Fitch Solutions provides accurate, granular and in-depth information and data on financial markets worldwide. |
| CSMAR | The China Stock Market & Accounting Research (CSMAR) Database offers data on the China stock markets and the financial statements of China’s listed companies. |
| CSMAR - Corporate Governance | China Listed Firm's Corporate Governance Research Database collects information of top 10 shareholders, shareholders' general meeting, directors, and supervisors disclosed by companies listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange since 1999. |
| ISS - Directors | Universe of S&P 1500 companies —range of variables related to individual board directors (e.g. name, age, tenure, gender, committee memberships, primary employer and title, etc.). |
| ISS - Governance | Provides data on classic takeover defense and other corporate governance provisions, including: classified boards, cumulative voting, golden parachutes, poison pills, state takeover laws |
| ISS - Voting Analytics | U.S. mutual fund voting records for all institutions filing the SEC form N-PX - Global institutions covered by ISS outside SEC U.S. disclosures |
| Morningstar - Data analysis | DatAnalysis is Australia’s long-standing premium research tool for information on companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. |
| Sustainanalytics | Sustainalytics provides ESG and corporate governance data and ratings. |
| Morningstar Direct | A web-based research platform ideal for developing, selecting, and monitoring investments, including Open End Funds, Separate Accounts, Exchange-Traded Funds, Stocks, Variable Annuity Products, Stocks and much |
| MSCI ESG KLD STATS | MSCI ESG ratings. |
| Ivy DB US Options database | OptionMetrics is the premier provider of historical options data for use in empirical research and econometric studies. |
| RavenPack News Analytics | Analyze unstructured content from thousands of publications to extract information on named entities with sentiment, and financially-relevant events. |
| Datastream | Historical data for over 103,000 active equities plus over 166,000 inactive equities covering 100 developed and emerging markets with over 200 fields including prices, volumes, market capitalization, earnings, dividend and corporate action data, plus classification data based on ICB. For many markets, there is full coverage of all traded equity instruments with over 50 years of history for the key developed markets. Data is sourced direct from exchanges, leading international and local suppliers, and published report |
| Refintiv Worldscope | Contains detailed financial statement data and profile data on public companies globally. |
| Asset4/Refinitiv ESG | Provides ESG scores to measure a company’s relative ESG performance, commitment and effectiveness across 10 main themes (emissions, environmental product innovation, human rights, shareholders, etc.) based on publicly-reported data. |
| Institutional (13f) Holdings - S34 | Institutional holdings data from quarterly 13f filings. |
| Mutual Fund Holdings - (S12) | The S12 mutual fund holdings database covers almost all historical US mutual funds, with the addition of a large collection of international funds from 2017Q4. |
| Dealscan | Facility-level information on commercial loans in the US. Includes information on, among other things, loan amount, maturity, interest rate, and applicable covenants for US firms. |
| SDC platinum | Mergers and acquisitions and new issues, including seasoned equity offerings and initial public offerings. |
| Datascope | Intraday security prices and volume. |
| RoZetta Institute (formerly SIRCA) | Australian financial statement and stock price data. |
| RatingXpress | Current and historical S&P credit ratings with entity and security-level data |
| Compustat | Compustat Fundamentals provides standardized North American and global financial statement and market data for over 80,000 active and inactive publicly traded companies. |
| Execucomp | Executive compensation data for US firms (typically S&P1500 firms). |
| SNL FIG data | Regulatory financial data for 16,000+ operating and 29,000+ global historical holding, banks, and credit unions. |
| Capital IQ -Capital structure | Extensive debt capital structure for over 60,000 global public and private companies and equity capital structure data on over 80,000 active and inactive companies worldwide. |
| Capital IQ -People Intelligence. | Covers over 4.5 million professionals and over 2.4 million people including private and public company executives, board members, etc., globally. |
| CRSP - Mutual Funds | As the provider of the only complete database of both active and inactive mutual funds, CRSP leads the way in mutual fund research. The CRSP Survivor-Bias-Free US Mutual Fund Database serves as a foundation for research in and benchmarking for this asset class. Central to this work is the use of survivor-bias-free data to insure the accuracy of performance benchmarks, and the validity of analyses. Created according to clear, unbiased and systematic processes, this database undergoes rigorous procedures employed to promote data accuracy, timeliness and consistency. |
| CRSP -security price | Security price, return, and volume data for the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ stock markets. Additional CRSP files provide stock indices, beta-based and cap-based portfolios, treasury bond and risk-free rates, mutual funds, and real estate data. |
| CRSP - Compustat Merged | A link between CRSP and Compustat. |
| 2IQ Global insider transactional data | Full global coverage. Categorize significance of trades, and level of Insider. Link to the original filing. Transaction labels (capturing footnotes and events). Validate Insider positions and relationships to reporting entity. |
| Bank Regulatory | The Bank Regulatory Database provides accounting data for bank holding companies, commercial banks, savings banks, and savings and loans institutions |
| CBOE Indexes | CBOE (Chicago Board Options Exchange) Volatility Index® (VIX®) is a key measure of market expectations of near-term volatility conveyed by S&P 500 stock index option prices. The New VIX still measures the market’s expectation of 30-day volatility, but in a way that conforms to the latest thinking and research among industry practitioners. The New VIX is based on S&P 500 index option prices and incorporates information from the volatility “skew” by using a wider range of strike prices rather than just at-the-money series. |
| WRDS SEC Analytics Suite | SEC Analytics Suite by WRDS with NEW SEC Sentiment and Readability data is positioned for broad business usage – from due diligence and forensic accounting to disclosure research and investment management. |
| MF Links via WRDS | By Russ Wermers (UMD) & WRDS. The MFLINKS tables provide a reliable means to link CRSP Mutual Fund (MFDB) data that covers mutual fund performance, expenses, and related information to equity holdings data in the Thomson Reuters Mutual Fund Ownership data (formerly known as the CDA S12 data). Using MFLINKS allows a researcher to gather detail on holdings either for particular funds or fund families and groups of funds at specific points in time. |
| Global Financial Development Database | The Global Financial Development Database is an extensive dataset of financial system characteristics for 214 economies. |
| Global Financial Data | Equities, stock indices, bonds, bills, commodities, and exchange rates for over 200 global markets as far back as 1601. |
| Trucost Environmental | Data on environmental impact for over 15,000 companies globally from 2002-2023. Trucost provides firms’ scope 1, scope 2, and scope 3 carbon emissions. Trucost obtains data from a variety of public sources such as company annual reports, company websites and environmental data providers such as the Carbon Disclosure Project. If a company does not voluntarily disclose its emissions, then Trucost estimates them based on a proprietary model. |
| S&P ESG Scores | S&P ESG scores for all firms in the Capital IQ universe from 2013-2023. This dataset contains aggregate ESG scores as well as separate scores for environment, social, and government dimensions. S&P ESG scores also contains more granular data on criteria that make up each dimension. Data is based on the S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA) process and publicly available sources. |
| Markit | Markit contains data on securities lending markets. For each security, data includes the number and value on loan, the total lendable amount and value, and various measures of borrowing costs. Monash has access to global equities and bonds datasets. Data coverage for each sample and country varies. |
| Nielsen IQ | Consumer Panel: The Consumer Panel Data comprise a representative panel of households that continually provide information about their purchases in a longitudinal study in which panellists stay on as long as they continue to meet NielsenIQ's criteria. NielsenIQ consumer panellists use in-home scanners to record all of their purchases (from any outlet) intended for personal, in-home use. Consumers provide information about their households and what products they buy, as well as when and where they make purchases. Retail Scanner Data: Retail Scanner Data consist of weekly pricing, volume, and store environment information generated by point-of-sale systems from more than 90 participating retail chains across all US markets. |
| Your Economy | YE Time Series is an annual establishment-level, time series database. YE tracks all establishments, including for-profit (both privately-owned and publicly-traded), non-profits, and government establishments. Data includes location of the establishment, as well as, among other variables, number of employees and revenue. Data begins in 2004 and is for the US only. |