EconDist: Economic distance

In emlaet/wwmetrics: Data for International Business, Economics and Management

Description

Data on Economic distance for 65484 country pairs (256 home countries and 256 host countries) from 1960 to 2016.

Usage

data("EconDist")

Format

A tibble with 2 428 512 observations and 6 variables:

• ID. A character string indicating the country pair (ISO3 code) and the year.

• year. Integer indicating the year.

• CountryPair. Factor uniting the origin and the destination using "-".

• origin. Factor indicating the first country (ISO3 code) of the country pair.

• destination. Factor indicating the second country (ISO3 code) of the country pair.

• Economic_distance. Numeric. Economic distance calculated between the two countries forming each country pair based on the differences in GDP in USD.

Source

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD

References

http://www.worldbank.org/

emlaet/wwmetrics documentation built on May 30, 2019, 8:25 a.m.