In the paper International Trade, Risk and the Role of Banks (joint with Friederike Niepmann), tables B.14-B.16, we report data on letter-of-credit and documentary-collections intensities calculated from information on SWIFT messages. For easier use, please find the data in Stata format here: download
Trade Finance dataset
Notes: data is for the year 2013. Shares are rounded to .1 percent and shares above 100 percent are replaced by 100.
Please cite as:
Niepmann, F. and Schmidt-Eisenlohr, T., 2017. International trade, risk and the role of banks. Journal of International Economics, 107, pp.111-126.