Other Sources¶
Free and open-access data sources for finance research, organized by topic.
| Topic | Description |
|---|---|
| Company Information | SEC filings, annual reports, identifiers, and industry classification (Hoberg & Phillips) |
| News & Media | Nexis Uni, Structure of News, Google Trends, Wikipedia page views |
| Social Media | Twitter/X, Reddit, Meta, YouTube, GitHub data repositories |
| ESG, Climate & Sustainable Finance | Firm-level ESG ratings, climate targets, emissions data; country-level sovereign ESG, climate adaptation (ND-GAIN) |
| Asset Classes | Equities & asset pricing, bonds, commodities & futures, cryptocurrency |
| Economic & Macroeconomic Data | FRED, IMF, OECD, BIS, World Bank, country-level data, policy uncertainty indices |
| Survey Data | Household and consumer surveys (NFCS, LISS, HFCS, SCF) |
| Sentiment & Culture | Investor sentiment, cultural dimensions, values surveys |
| Python Tools & Books | Open-source Python packages and books for financial analysis |
| Data Collections | Curated data collection directories: Mark Dijkstra's finance database list, Our World in Data, and Kaggle |
| Journal Replication Packages | Harvard Dataverse collections for JFQA, RFS, RCFS, RAPS, FMA, and others |