BoardEx - North America
- Governance and Ownership

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Description
The data available in BoardEx allows you to analyse the proportion of politically connected directors, using CEO-level controls such as age, gender, and experience, and evaluate executive compensation such as stock option holdings. BoardEx data covers more than 20,000 companies from 1999-present.
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Acknowledgement
The BoardEx subscription is financed by the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at Aalto University School of Science.
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Wharton Research Data Services. "WRDS" wrds.wharton.upenn.edu, accessed YYYY-MM-DD.
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'Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) was used in preparing [identify research piece]. This service and the data available thereon constitute valuable intellectual property and trade secrets of WRDS and/or its third-party suppliers.'
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Access to WRDS is managed by Nikolas Breitkopf, contact via [email protected]
Supporting materials
Detailed overview of the database by WRDS: https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu/pages/support/manuals-and-overviews/boardex/wrds-overview-boardex-data/
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