data.trade: Gravity Model Applied to Germany

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Gravity Model Applied to Germany

Description

This is a data set on German trade with its 27 EU-partners in 2014.

Usage

data.trade

Format

A data frame with 27 observations on the following five variables:

country	name of member state.
imports	German imports from member state (in million euro).
exports	German exports to member state (in million euro).
gdp	gross domestic product of member state (in million euro).
dist	distance between member state and Germany (in km).

Details

In Auer et al. (2023, Chaps. 9 & 14) these data are used to illustrate the estimation and functional specification of a multivariate linear regression model.

Source

Imported from Eurostat Eurostat. Distances computed with FreeMapTools.

References

Auer, L.v., Hoffmann, S. & Kranz, T. (2023): Ökonometrie - Das R-Arbeitsbuch, 2nd ed., Springer-Gabler (https://www.oekonometrie-lernen.de).

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