LibGuides: Economic History: Finance

International finance

Orbis. No access from 2025
Public and private company data. Search by company or select criterias to be searched.
Companies' financial accounts, credit scores, directorships, ownership structures and details of mergers and acquisitions activity.
The M & A database Zephyr is included in the subscription.
Orbis tutorial
Have a look into the libry's FAQ to watch a video on how to use Orbis.
Historical Financial Statistics
Data set on exchange rates, central bank and commercial bank balance sheets, interest rates, money supply, inflation, international trade, government finance, national accounts, and more. Main focus is data from ca 1500 to 1950, with some earlier and later data.
Zephyr (Within Orbis). No access from 2025
Information on M&A, IPO, private equity and venture capital deals. Links to detailed financial information on the companies involved in the deals.
Zephyr tutorial- Getting started with Zephyr
From University of Southampton. Note that links and contact information is not valid for Lund University.
EDGAR
US public companies' financial information and operations through filings the company makes with the SEC. Also information provided by mutual funds (including money market funds), exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and variable annuities. Filings from 1994-
Financial Access Survey
Database from IMF. Access to macroeconomic and financial data
IMF Data
Economic and financial data from the IMF
Nasdaq Historical prices - shares

Retriever Business
Information on Swedish companies, derived from annual reports from Bolagsverket
Modular Finance: Holdings
Owner data for Swedish public companies.
Data for short sales, insider transactions, liquidity levels, broker statistics, block trades etc
Board and management data.
15 years of detailed historical data
SHoF, Swedish House of Finance, Research Data Center

Swedish House of Finance contains the following databases:

FinBas
Financial data such as daily end-of-day stock price data, corporate actions and fundamentals from the Nordic Stock Exchanges, MTF’s and OTC markets.
Serrano
Financial history of Swedish companies 1997-2018
Resility and Nordic Compass
Corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data on publicly traded Nordic companies.
Annual Reports Archive
Annual Reports for companies listed at the Stockholm Stock Exchange during the period 1912 to 1978 in PDF format.
PAtLink
The aim of the project is to create and free of charge distribute a comprehensive matching file between patent- and trademark information and organization information.
Fama French Factors
Fama French factors calculated over every Swedish stock from 1983 to 2016, aggregated by day, week and month.

EDSC ( Erasmus Data Service Center) manuals, tips & tricks
Tips, hints and tricks about the use of financial databases, like Orbis, Datastream, ThomsonOne, WRDS, CompuStat, Bloomberg and more from the Datateam of the Erasmus Data Service Center (EDSC) of the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Resources for managing statistics