Trade_data_small: Determinants of International Trade in the European Union

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Determinants of International Trade in the European Union

Description

The dataset contains bilateral trade and its economic determinants for 26 European Union countries over the period 1995–2015. Each observation represents a country pair, resulting in 325 unique trading pairs.

The countries included are: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

The dataset was used in: Beck (2020), What drives international trade? Robust analysis for the European Union, Journal of International Studies, 13(3), 68–84.

Usage

data(Trade_data_small)

Format

A data frame with 325 rows and 11 variables:

LNTRADE

Natural logarithm of bilateral trade between two countries.

B

Border dummy (1 if countries share a common border; 0 otherwise).

LNDGEO

Natural logarithm of the shortest distance between capital cities.

L

Common language dummy (1 if countries share at least one official language; 0 otherwise).

LNRGDPPROD

Natural logarithm of the product of real GDPs of the two countries.

HUMAN

Absolute difference in human capital indicators.

INFVAR

Absolute difference in the standard deviation of inflation rates.

ARABLE

Absolute difference in arable land.

ARABLEpw

Absolute difference in arable land per worker.

LAND

Absolute difference in total land area.

LANDpc

Absolute difference in land area per capita.

Source

Harvard Dataverse. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.7910/DVN/JMMOEA")}


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