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BoardEx - North America
Subject:
Company data:
- Governance and Ownership
Keywords:
board of directors, director, executive, compensation, network, political connections
Accessible to:
Aalto users, Aalto Students & Staff
Attention:
External account registration required; data reuse must comply with the WRDS Terms of Use.
Data source type
Third party data through data vendor
License
Academic and non-commercial research purposes only
Analysis unit
Individual
Geographical coverage
Canada, United States
Time period coverage
1999-present
Frequency
Other
Format
CSV, DBF, GZ, HTM, SAV, ZIP, SAS7BDAT, DTA, TXT, XLSX
Encoding
UTF8
Description
BoardEx provides data on the educational background, prior employment, and connections of directors and executives running the companies. The data consists of individual profiles, networks, compensation, committee details and company information. 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.
To access the data, you need to apply for access for WRDS.
Distributor
Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS)
Acknowledgement
The BoardEx subscription is financed by the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at Aalto University School of Science.
Cite as
Wharton Research Data Services. "WRDS" wrds.wharton.upenn.edu, accessed YYYY-MM-DD.
WRDS Terms of Use requiers users to acknowledge them in publications and communication by stating the following:
'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.'
Contact
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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