Federico-Tena World Trade Historical Database for Europe, 1800-2016

A historical database developed by Giovanni Federico and Antonio Tena Junguito outlines changes in world trade from 1800 to 2016. The dataset specifically covers Europe. The project was harvested from the e-cienciaDatos Dataverse and was last updated in May 2024.

Use Cases

• Modeling long-term European trade trends based on the 1800-2016 time series.
• Analyzing the impact of historical events on European trade flows based on the described temporal coverage.
• Benchmarking economic growth against trade data for Europe over two centuries.

Strengths

• Covers a 216-year time range from 1800 to 2016.
• Created by academic researchers from recognized universities.
• Last updated metadata indicates recent platform activity.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to its European focus.

Provenance

Source

Giovanni Federico (Università di Pisa) and Antonio Tena Junguito (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

Collection Method

Project developed by the authors; data harvested from e-cienciaDatos Dataverse.

Time Range

1800 to 2016

Freshness

Last updated 2024-05-05 07:30:52; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Europe