Our research

We provide a range of databases to aid research. We have a subscription to Bloomberg and WRDS, which includes:

• Bank Regulatory
• Blockholders
• CBOE Index
• Compustat
• CRSP
• CUSIP
• Direct Marketing Educational Foundation
• Dow Jones Averages and Total Return Indexes
• Fama-French
• Federal Reserve Bank Reports
• MSRB
• OptionMetrics
• OTC Markets
• Penn World Tables
• Peters and Taylor Total Q
• PHLX
• Public Data
• Research Quotient
• SEC Order Execution
• TRACE
• World indices

Our Business and Local Government Data Research Centre offers access to the following datasets:

Company and financial

• Osiris Companies Database
• UK Companies Basic Data
• UK National Business Database
• UK Outstanding Loans

Markets and public

• Colchester Borough Council Data
• Deprivation Index
• Essex County Council Data
• fDi Markets Library
• Footfall Data
• UK Councillors, MPs, MEPs and Civil Service
• UK Public Sector Spending

Healthcare and social care

• Care Homes Data
• Global Data Pharma Etrack
• Medway Council Data
• Norfolk Vulnerable Children Data
• UK Healthcare Providers and Ratings
• UK Minimum Dataset for Social Care

Retail

• Online Retail Website Hits
• Retail Floor Space Utilisation

Infrastructure

• Broadband Speed

We provide a range of software to aid your studies, in addition to those in the University's software catalogue.

Mathematical analysis software and computing environments

• IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio
• Maple
• Matlab
• SAS

Statistical analysis

• AMOS
• EViews
• Gretl
• R
• SPSS
• Stata

Qualitative data analysis

• Max QDA2
• NVivo

Accounting software

• Sage Line 50

General programming

• Eclipse
• GCC
• JDK/JRE
• RStudio
• Visual Studio
• Python

Office and reference management

• Emacs / Xemacs
• EndNote
• Microsoft Office
• MikTex
• Reference Manager
• Tex, LaTeX, DVI, tec
• TeXnicCenter
• TeXworks

General purpose

• Adobe Reader
• LPDF Creator
• SSH client for Windows