French World Trade Data from 1800 to 2016

Federico-Tena World Trade Historical Database outlines changes in global commerce over two centuries. This dataset focuses on France, providing a long-term view of its trade patterns. The project was developed by Giovanni Federico and Antonio Tena Junguito, with data harvested from the e-cienciaDatos Dataverse repository.

Use Cases

• Modeling long-term trade elasticity based on historical price and volume data.
• Analyzing France's integration into the global economy over the 19th and 20th centuries.
• Studying the impact of major historical events, like wars or treaties, on French trade flows.
• Benchmarking economic growth models against historical trade statistics for France.

Strengths

• Covers a 216-year time range from 1800 to 2016.
• Developed by named academic experts from recognized universities.
• Platform tags indicate it is structured as tabular data.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect the collection and aggregation biases inherent to the original historical sources.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Harvested from the e-cienciaDatos Dataverse repository.

Time Range

1800 to 2016

Freshness

Last updated 2024-05-05 06:19:54; freshness should be verified.

Geography

France