Access is available on and off campus to current McMaster University students, faculty and staff.
- WRDS account: Current McMaster users can register for a personal WRDS account.
- WRDS Day Pass: Current McMaster users can request a 24-hour WRDS day pass using this form. A McMaster email address is required. Once the form is submitted, a WRDS access link will be emailed to you within minutes.
- CRSP and other datasets via WRDS have been fully funded by McMaster's DeGroote School of Business (DSB).
McMaster's subscription to CRSP (Center for Research in Security Prices) includes the following datasets:
CRSP U.S. Stock Database (Annual): Contain daily and monthly market and corporate action data for securities with primary listings on the NYSE, NYSE Amex, NASDAQ, and Arca exchanges and include CRSP broad market indexes.
CRSP U.S. Index History Files - Intraday (Quarterly): Contains second-by-second and end-of-day price and total return levels for market capitalization, value/growth, and sector indexes.
CRSP Mutual Funds (Quarterly): Survivor-Bias-Free US Mutual Fund Database includes identification information, fund objectives, fees, total net assets, monthly and daily net asset values, returns, and distributions. This database allows researchers to create performance benchmarks free of survivorship bias by including both active and inactive funds.
