Accessing Bloomberg and EIKON Live Financial Data

At the Marshall Library we have two Live Financial Data Terminals available for staff and students in Economics and Development Studies: Bloomberg and EIKON.

Bloomberg

Bloomberg is a computer software system  that enables professionals in the financial service sector to access Bloomberg Professional Services through which users can monitor and analyze real-time global financial market data. It also provides excellent news feeds. If you would like to book a session using our Bloomberg terminal please fill out our online from on the Marshall Library website:

https://www.marshall.econ.cam.ac.uk/contactus/eikon-bloomberg-booking-form

We will email a confirmation. Please come to the front doors of the Marshall Library and telephone us on 01223 335217. A member of Library staff will come down to let you in and escort you to the terminal. 

During Covid-19 restrictions you must -

    1.     Wear a face mask at all times inside the Marshall Library

    2.     Sanitise your hands with sanitiser provided

    3.     Scan the NHS QR Track and Trace code on entry

    4.     Sanitise the Bloomberg keyboard before you leave the Library

N.B. There are no toilet facilities available on the Marshall Library side of the Austin Robinson Building

Introductory Bloomberg videos and tutorials

The terminal is available during our current opening hours of 9am-4pm -so the last bookable session each day is from 3pm.

Bloomberg Video Tutorials

If you have not used the Bloomberg Terminal before we recommend you download and read the Bloomberg Getting Started Guide: https://data.bloomberglp.com/professional/sites/10/Getting-Started-Guide-for-Students-English.pdf

Bloomberg: Our Top 25 Tips and Tricks - CJBS video from 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anOUEiraEtg

Three Bloomberg tutorial videos by Eric from May 2020

Part I - Quick Introduction to Basic Functions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ee-x6IXWK8

Part II - Advanced Function Exploaration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia158DGKnhU

Part III - Additional Economic Stock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKNUxOmQrgw

EIKON

Like the Bloomberg Terminal, Eikon is a software system used to monitor and analyze financial information. Eikon provides financial professionals with access to market data, analytics, and messaging tools. Information can also be exported to Microsoft Excel for continued data analysis.

During the Covid-19 restrictions we are making access to our terminal remote access only. To access the Marshall Library EIKON licence please email 

infolib@jbs.cam.ac.uk

explaining you are an Economics/Development Studies student (which year) or Economic/Development Studies member of academic staff. You will be granted a day long access to the EIKON data and they will send you details on how to access EIKON.

Please note you should allow plenty of time for any data downloads as all sessions end at 4pm.

Email marshlib@hermes.cam.ac.uk if you want to use the EIKON licence remotely and you have not used it before. We can send you a guide in PDF format.

Cambridge Judge Business School Video Tutorials

These video tutorials have just been made available

Eikon Essentials: Introduction and Searching

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ0F2CXOU6U&list=PLelOK3RiNhb35ipTOfMmVoAYDnR9bTmbJ&index=1

Eikon Essentials: Financial Charts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdmzqlJwjfQ&list=PLelOK3RiNhb35ipTOfMmVoAYDnR9bTmbJ&index=2

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Economics ETextbooks are now available via Kortext and Bibliu

 Due to the difficult situation this year with Covid-19 the University and the University Library have provided extra funding to support online learning. We have been fortunate to receive support from this funding for many of the key Economics Textbooks. Most of the core titles used across the Tripos and the MPhil courses are being provided by two companies: Kortext and Bibliu. 

Kortext

To access these etextbooks simply search for titles on iDiscover in the usual way. You can refine your search by 'ebooks'

Click on Online access below the record and you will be taken to the relevant providers site, in this case Kortext

If you click through to the details of a record it will show you which provider is providing the ebook . It also tells you it is part of a temporary pilot collection for 2020-21

When you have clicked on Online Access you will be taken to Kortext.

You need to choose University of Cambridge from a list - or type it into the box. You will then be taken to the usual Raven login page to access the book

Then you will be asked to create a personal password for the Kortext site to access their textbooks for you:

Once you have logged in you will immediately be accessing the book you want to read online and Kortext will ask you to take a tour - so you can learn about the functionality available...

You can search the book, go to the contents page to find a chapter at a time, take notes, create bookmarks, create references to download using Endnote or Refworks, and print (up to 10%). All these functions are available on the side menu

 

Here is a list of the titles we have available via Kortext:

Varian, Hal (2019) Intermediate Microeconomics: A Modern Approach. Norton, 9th ed.

Mankiw, & Taylor (2020) Macroeconomics. Cengage, 5th ed.

Jones, C.(2016) Macroeconomics. Norton, 4th ed.

Mann, P. (2016) Introductory Statistics, Wiley, 9th ed.

Stiglitz, & Rosengard, (2015) Economics of the Public Sector, Norton, 4th ed

Dixit & Skeath (2014) Games of Strategy, Norton, 4th ed

Wooldridge (2019) Introductory Econometrics Cengage, 7th ed.

McLaren (2012) International Trade. Wiley

Tirole (2010)The Theory of Corporate Finance. Princeton University Press

Pepall (2011) Contemporary Industrial Organization: A Quantitative Approach. Wiley

Jones & Vollrath (2013) Introduction to Economic Growth, Norton, 3rd ed.

Acemoglu (2008) Introduction to Modern Economic Growth. Princeton University Press

Hayashi, F.(2011) Econometrics. Princeton University Press

Woodford, M. (2011) Interest and Prices: Foundations of a Theory of Monetary Prices. Princeton University Press

Camerer. C. (2011) Behavioral Game Theory: Experiments in Strategic Interaction. Princeton University Press

Bishop, S. & Walker, M. (2010) The Economics of EC Competition Law: Concepts, Applications and Measurement. 3rd ed. Thomson Reuters

Bibliu

We also have the following titles via Bibliu - access is via iDiscover like Kortext

When you click through to online access you get taken to the Bibliu site via the usual Raven login route

However the Bibliu site takes you straight into the book you want to use - you can see the functions on the top menu e.g. search and notes -similar to the Kortext site

Here are the titles we have via Bibliu:

Borjas, G. (2019) Labor Economics. McGraw Hill. 8th ed.

Gali, J. (2015) Monetary Policy, Inflation and the Business Cycle: An Introduction to the New Keynesian Framework and its Applications. Princeton University Press. 2nd ed.

Hillier, D. (2020)Financial Markets and Corporate Strategy. European Ed.

Lind, Marchal & Wathen (2020) Macroeconomics. 18th ed.

Mas-Colell, A. et al. (1995) Microeconomic Theory. Oxford University Press

Romer, D. (2018) Advanced Macroeconomics. McGraw Hill, 5th ed.

Stock & Watson (2020) Introduction to Econometrics. 4th Global Ed.

Faculty of Economic Access to Global Financial Data, by Clare Trowell, Marshall Librarian & Mike Cerneant, Global Financial Data.

I am delighted to announce the purchase of Global Financial Data with support from the University Library and Faculty Board. This dataset should really help students with data for projects and dissertations. It should also be of great use to researchers in the Faculty of Economics. Read on to see what data is available via this new service. Mike Cerneant, our account manager, has written an explanation of what the database contains and how it may be useful. He is also happy to work with lecturers to provide Zoom Room demos for Economics classes. Please get in touch with me if you are interested in this opportunity.

Scroll down to the end of the data description to read how to access the database

Global Financial Data - what does it contain?

 Global Financial Data provides the most comprehensive, historical economic and financial information available anywhere. GFD specialises in providing Financial and Economic Data that extends from the 1000s to the present—beyond what any other data provider has ever delivered. For over twenty-five years, Global Financial Data has been accumulating and transcribing rare data sources into research-quality databases.  

GFD combines daily market data from traditional data feeds with historical values collected from print sources to generate complete, unabridged data series. These original source documents include academic journals, newspapers, periodicals, books and numerous other archival sources that were once only recorded by a quill pen. The data offered are verified, cross-referenced, tested and accurate.  

The Global Financial Database is a global macro database that provides data never before compiled into a single electronic format. It spans more than 200 global markets and extends coverage back to the year 1000. GFD supports full data transparency to enable our users to verify financial data points, tracing them back to the original source documents.

The GFD Suite of Solutions

The most comprehensive and extensive collection of economic and financial data. One of the most cited electronic databases ever developed. As part of the service GFDFinaeon you can chart, graph and analyse a number of series using custom features e.g. Screen-in-Time, Events-in-Time, Constituent Membership and Index Creator. Includes

• Asset Classes from 1800
• Commodities from 1000
• Equity Indices from 1694
• Forex form 1383
• Fixed income from 1285
• Emerging Markets from 1821

The GFD UK Equities is the first of its kind to provide full coverage of the exchange that once dominated world finance. It features stock prices from the Amsterdam exchange beginning in 1602 and London Stock Exchange from 1692.

• Ordinary, Deferred and Preferred Shares
• Emerging Markets
• Foreign and Domestic Government Bonds
• Dividend and Capitalization Data

This data source provides unique insight into the early stages of the US market as it grew from 14 million in 1791 to over 30 Trillion today. Going beyond NYSE GFD has researched every stock ever traded on the US Exchange, including regional exchanges such as Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia, as well as equities trading on the OTC, AMEX and NASDAQ.

• 25,000 Delisted Stocks from 1791
• Dividend data from 1866
• Earnings Data from 1924
• Fundamental Data from 1950
• Constituent Membership of each major index

Using data derived from the London Stock Exchange GFD ha calculated alternative market indices that measure stock market performance beginning in 1602, for over 50 countries. Although tick data are necessary for day-to-day decisions, accurate long-term analysis and forecasting models must rely upon historical data. These new indices can identify patterns between sectors and securities never before identified.

• The GFD US-100
• The GFD UK-100
• The GFD Emerging Market Index
• The GFD World Index

Using over 80,000 historical events that have occurred through time you will be able to identify trends in market behaviour when similar events repeat. Natural disasters, recessions, strikes, elections and assassinations are a few examples of such events.

Complex movements in real estate can optimally be analyzed using GFD/Winans Real Estate Data. Winans International US Real Estate Index (WIREI) tracks prices of new homes beginning in 1830.

• 500 US Real Estate Indicators
• 300 Foreign Indices
• National, Regional, State and Metropolitan Housing Data
  
• New Home sales from 1963

Accessing Global Financial Data
You can access the service via this address: 

https://ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/login?url=http://globalfinancialdata.com/

You will have to register your own account the first time you login - but you only have to do it the first time.

To get to the Login/Register screen click the link on the top right hand side of the Home Page

When you click to register or login you will be taken to this screen

Do go and take a look and have a play with the resource. I hope you will find this dataset really useful.

 

Welcome to all new Students in Economics from the Marshall Library of Economics

Welcome to Cambridge from the Marshall Library Team. My name is Clare Trowell and I am the Marshall Librarian. We are here to provide all your resources to support you course in Economics. The Marshall Library has a wonderful collection of materials in Economics and Development Studies both in print and online. We also hold the Archives of Alfred Marshall and other key figures from Cambridge Economics.

You can find the Marshall Library on the Sidgwick Site in the Faculty of Economics Austin Robinson Building. You can see what the exterior of the Marshall Library looks like in the picture at the head of this blogpost. Here it is on the University of Cambridge Map: https://map.cam.ac.uk/Austin+Robinson+Building#52.201273,0.108442,18

Due to the current situation with the Covid-19 pandemic unfortunately we are not able to open our beautiful study space safely to readers but during Michaelmas Term we will be running 

Zero Contact Services. 

These services will include:

• Click & Collect for borrowing
  
• Book Return via the Book Drop
• Scanning of key teaching materials, which are made available via Moodle, the virtual learning environment.

Most of our resources such as journals, bibliographic databases, many of the key ebooks and datasets are provided online. You can learn more about the Library and our services on our website:
https://www.marshall.econ.cam.ac.uk/
To find books you want to borrow via Click & Collect you need to understand how to search our catalogue: iDiscover. You will have received a copy of the iDiscover worksheet and a leaflet explaining the Zero Contact services at Induction - please read them carefully.

If a book is available as an ebook you will see that flagged up on the catalogue.
If you cannot find a book you need please contact the Marshall Library either by email: marshlib@hermes.cam.ac.uk or fill out the book request form: https://www.marshall.econ.cam.ac.uk/contactus/book-purchase-suggestion-form

Library Office Hours
The Librarians will also be running a weekly Office hour for students via Teams from October.

Undergraduates on Tuesdays 1-2pm

Diploma students on Tuesdays 12 noon-1pm 

MPhil students on Wednesdays, 10-11am 

You can speak to us about any issues you are having with finding material or other Library services. We can also offer one-to-one support via Teams by appointment. I will email details of how to access this service in due course.

If you have any questions at all please get in contact with us via email: marshlib@hermes.cam.ac.uk
We will also be providing some Information Literacy sessions on Referencing, Finding Datasets, Literature Searching during the year.

Have a great time at Cambridge and we look forward to seeing you soon!