The Wharton Financial Institutions Center provides meaningful insights into the central issues facing participants in today's financial markets. We pursue this mission through primary research enriched by a close working partnership with the financial services industry.
The Journal of Financial Intermediation stresses the use of contemporary analytical and empirical tools to collect and stimulate research in the design of financial contracts and institutions. Interest in this field is related to the development of information economics and options pricing.
Commercial Bank and Bank Holding Company Database - The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago has made the quarterly income statements and balance sheets that are filed by banks with bank regulators available as SAS XPORT files. The database which starts in 1976 and continues to the present, also includes documentation on how to form consistent time-series, and separate files describing the dates and outcomes of all of the US bank mergers that have occurred during this time-period.
Wachowicz's Web World contains categorized and briefly annotated links, PowerPoint slides, interactive quizzes, and other helpful information for students of finance.