DATA
Below find links to download data sets from some recent papers.
Upstart Industrialization and Exports: Evidence from Japan, 1880–1910 with John Tang
- Data (.dta) and do file (.do) available from the ICPSR
Fiscal and Financial Crises with Michael Bordo
- .zip file with underlying data and do file
Market Potential and the Rise of US Productivity Leadership with Dan Liu
- City populations, dyadic distance measures and weighted distance for use in gravity regressions 1880, 1890, 1900, 1910 (excel spreadsheet, 48 mb .xlsx file)
- We will post the trade and panel data set soon.
Does Inequality Lead to a Financial Crisis? Michael Bordo and Christopher M. Meissner (forthcoming) Journal of International Money and Finance
- Stata data set
- Do file (thanks to Damir Cosic for finding a small error in our do file. The regression from Table 2 column 4 has been re-specified in this update.
Trade Booms, Trade Busts and Trade Costs David Jacks, Christopher M. Meissner, and Dennis Novy 2011. Journal of International Economics 83(2), 185-201.
- Stata data set
- Do file
- UPDATES: This site uses a similar methodology to that used in Jacks, Meissner and Novy (2011) to calculate trade costs for a large sample 2000-2009.
The Impact of International Trade on Democracy: A Long-Run Perspective J. Ernesto Lopez-Cordova and Christopher M. Meissner. 2008.World Politics 60 pp.539-575.
- Stata data for 1960-2000, Stata data set for 1920-1940, Stata data for 1870-1910
- Do file for all sub-periods
- Bilateral trade data and do files to create instruments
Business Cycle Co-movement: Evidence from the Great Depression Gabe Mathy and Christopher M. Meissner. 2011. Journal of Monetary Economics 58 (4) pp. 362-372.