Finance Resource Guide: Education and Research

Rodney L. White Center is one of the oldest financial research institutions in the nation. It sponsors a wide range of financial research and offers freely downloadable working papers from 1971 to the present. The Wharton Financial Institutions Center offers current full-text working papers, and the Weiss Center for International Financial Research offers full-text working papers from 1998.

The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is an Open Access repository containing scholarly research in the social sciences and the humanities. Most papers are available for free downloading. Authors and papers are ranked by the number of downloads. Includes accounting, management, economics, and law topics, among others.

The Clearinghouse maintains an annual Index of Filings (from 1996) containing issuers that have been named in federal class action securities fraud lawsuits. Includes over 6,000 complaints, briefs, and other litigation materials. Also offers news and texts of articles and reports.

The London School of Business is one of the world's best known centers for financial education and research. This site allows some free downloading of working papers.

University of California Berkeley's IBER provides free texts of working papers on finance, economics, and other areas. Years covered vary.

"The Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP®) is a financial research center at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business." The site provides conference information and some free downloading of working papers.

"The Charles A. Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics is dedicated to promoting high-quality research in financial economics at Ohio State University. The Center is especially interested in sponsoring research which is of importance to the financial community of Ohio and the United States." This website offers free downloading of working papers through SSRN.

The Pension Research Council of the Wharton School of the Univeristy of Pennsylvania sponsors research on private pension and social security programs and other benefit plans in the U.S. and around the world. This site allows access to the organization's newsletters and some working papers.

An academic, non-profit research think tank on M&A. The site provides statistics on M&A and other resources, such as articles and news.

Provided by WebFinance Inc., InvestorWords contains over 6,000 definitions of financial terms. Includes hypertext links (20,000) within definitions and a subject listing.

Provided by IBM, this guide explains the basic components of financial statements.