Resource Page for FNCE 7200

(Empirical Research Methods in Finance)

View the latest SYLLABUS for the course

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Useful resources:

• University of Maryland Databases Guide

Useful sites:

• Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS)
• GAUSS Source Code Archive at American University
• Search CTAN for TEX-related files and resources
• Another GAUSS page that is useful!
• Yet another GAUSS page that is useful!
• Yet another GAUSS page that has random number generating programs!
• A whole laundry list of GAUSS resources!
• Free GAUSS code on GARCH models from UC San Diego!
• GAUSS code for Kalman Filtering
• Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN)
• Standard & Poor's CUSIP Service Bureau (they assign and manage security cusips)
• NASDAQ
• The New York Stock Exchange
• Center for Research in Security Prices
• Don Cram's CRSP/Compustat Resource Page at Stanford University
• Resources for Economists on the Internet
• Investment Company Institute (an organization sponsored by the mutual fund industry)
• Computers
• Dell

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