DATASETS (panels, cross-sections, etc)
AND SOME COMPUTATIONAL MODEL ARCHIVES
COMPUTATIONAL MODELING SOURCES

 

This includes archived datasets from various econometric papers, as well as archived models for papers using numerical models.

Chinese exchange rates and U.S. jobs. Some data and spreadsheet models based on 2009 data.

TRADE IN SERVICES DATABASE (2008): This is an updated database of international trade and FDI in services that provides an overview of recent trends in volume and modes of trade in services. The database combines, through concordance to a common classification scheme, data from a number of sources on trade and FDI stocks and flows. The re-classification of these data into a broadly comparable BOPS-based classification scheme yields 15 individual service sectors (and 16 sectors for FDI data). The data sources include the OECD, the IMF, Eurostat, and UNCTAD. The time span ranges broadly from 1994-2006, with earlier data available for individual countries. Cross-border trade flows with the world are available for 188 countries, while bilateral data and FDI data are reported by a narrower set of countries. For countries that do not report bilateral trade directly, a partial dataset is included based on mirror flows from reporter countries. On this basis, while only 30 countries report bilateral flows directly, we have at least partial information on bilateral trade flows for 64 countries, and aggregate trade data for up to 188 countries. NOTE the zip archive includes the dataset in STATA9 format, the paper documenting the dataset, and *.do files for producing a mapping to GTAP service sectors and for producing a larger dataset using mirror flows.
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Income Inequality Dataset (2007) : This is based on Francois and Romagosa (2004), and provides a reconciled panel of gross, net, household, income and expenditure-based inequality measures.  Data are provided on spreadsheets.  Samples of the GAMS code used for parametric Lorenz curve estimation are also included.  The background paper is also included as part of the archive. 
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Finance and Development dataset (2008) :  In this paper, we provide information on an extended and improved version to the economic growth dataset as initially constructed by Eschenbach, Francois, and Nitzsche (2003). We give detailed information on the variables included in the Finance and Growth Panel dataset (FGPD) and on the respective data sources. This new dataset contains over 230 variables and covers 213 countries for the period 1970-2007. The main building blocks of the database are variables on economic growth and related macroeconomic performance, quality of institutions, and financial (openness) indicators. NOTE the *.zip archive includes the database in Excel format, and the background paper describing the dataset.
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Globalization and wages dataset (2004) . (Used for Francois, Grier and Nelson 2004).  This includes Baldwin and Cain’s time series of relative wage data, as well as our measures of the intermediate goods intensity of trade. 
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Mexican antidumping data (Used for Francois and Niels 2003, 2004).  -->DOWNLOAD

Trade Liberalization in the Doha Round -- global CGE model (Used for Francois, van Meijl, and van Tongeren 2005). 
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Market power in shipping and the gains from trade.  Download the Excel version of the model, or the Mathcad version. This is based on “ Trade in International Transport Services:  The Role of Competition.”  coauthored with Ian Wooton and published in Review of International Economics 2001.

China WTO Accession model (Used for Francois and Spinanger 2001, 2004).  Includes textiles and clothing effects, and also auto sector estimates.  DOWNLOAD
 
Pre- and Post- Uruguay Round tariffs – by GTAP 4 sector scheme.  DOWNLOAD

 

 

note: The models here are supplied without any warranty of guarantee. Some are actively maintained, some have been put out to pasture.

Partial and general equilibrium trade, climate change, trade and competition, and related models that can be downloaded directly from this site.  =>GO TO: COMPUTATIONAL MODEL DOWNLOAD TABLE

This includes computational example models.

    • Excel models
    • Gams CGE models
    • GEMPACK/CGE model

Applied Methods for Trade Policy Analysis -- A Handbook, Cambridge University Press, 1997 and 1998.

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THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH
N. Juster, 1961.