A few years ago, I starting collecting commodity-level trade data for the period 1946 to 1961 for as many countries as possible. This would fill in the gap between the end of World War II and the beginning of COMTRADE’s collection. Between one thing and another, the project stalled. I am uploading the data I did collect in the hopes that someone could find a use for it. The data is available on GitHub.
Cristina Bodea and I updated our central bank independence data for 144 countries for the years 1970 through 2020. Compared to Bodea and Hicks 2015, we added an additional 66 countries and 12 more years of data. We are releasing the scores for all of the components of the CBI index as well. The data is available on GitHub. Please download.
Joanne Gowa and I collected bilateral trade data for the years before 1950 mainly from trade yearbooks and statistical abstracts for different countries and territories. As such, the trade data is almost always represented in the domestic currency. We then collected exchange rate data from a variety of sources in order to convert the trade data into US dollars. The data is available on GitHub. Please download.
Soo Yeon Kim and I coded the provisions of Asian PTAs in order to establish a credibility measure. We used the data in our Journal of East Asian Studies and World Trade Review articles. The raw data is available here.