Contains international trade data; value of exports from one country to another in a given year.

trade

Format

A data frame with 114980 rows and 5 variables:

.row

integer: row number

country1

character: country name of exporter

country2

character: country name of importer

year

integer: year

exports

numeric: total value of exports (in tens of millions of dollars)

Details

See QSS Table 5.7.

References

  • Imai, Kosuke. 2017. Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction. Princeton University Press. URL.

  • Luca De Benedictis and Lucia Tajoli. (2011). 'The World Trade Network.' The World Economy, 34:8, pp.1417-1454. doi = 10.1111/j.1467-9701.2011.01360.x