gravity_zeros: Gravity dataset without zero trade flows

Description

An edited version of the full gravity dataset: The "square" gravity dataset for all possible pairs of Countries worldwide, 1948-2006, which is used in the article: Head, K., T. Mayer and J. Ries, 2010, "The erosion of colonial linkages after independence". Journal of International Economics, 81(1):1-14 (lead article). Dataset gravity_no_zeros corresponds to the dataset without zero trade flows, gravity_zeros, on the other hand, includes zero trade flows.

Usage

data("gravity_zeros")

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 22588 observations on the following 10 variables.

iso_o: ISO-Code of country of origin
iso_d: ISO-Code of country of destination
distw: weighted distance
gdp_o: GDP of country of origin in million dollars
gdp_d: GDP of country of destination in million dollars
rta: regional trade agreement dummy
flow: trade flow in million dollars
contig: contiguity dummy
comlang_off: common official language dummy
comcur: common currency dummy

References

Head, K. and Mayer, T. (2014). Chapter 3 - gravity equations: Workhorse,toolkit, and cookbook. In Gita Gopinath, E. H. and Rogoff, K., editors, Handbook of International Economics, volume 4 of Handbook of International Economics, pages 131-195. Elsevier. (Gravity Equations: Workhorse, Toolkit, and Cookbook)

Head, K., T. Mayer and J. Ries, 2010, "The erosion od colonial linkages after independence". Journal of International Economics, 81(1):1-14 (lead article).

Examples

Run this code

  data(gravity_zeros)
  str(gravity_zeros)

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