This dataset examines the impact of Britain's intervention at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 on Prussian and German state trade routes and the subsequent formation of the Zollverein customs union in 1834. It was created by author Nikolaus Wolf to analyze how state location and exogenous border changes affect bargaining power and multilateral trade relations.
Use Cases
- Analyze the relationship between state location and trade route changes following the 1815 border adjustments.
- Model the impact of exogenous border changes, like Britain's intervention, on the formation of multilateral institutions such as the Zollverein.
- Study the historical transit trade dynamics among German states to understand the economic drivers of the first customs union.
Strengths
- Dataset is associated with a specific historical research question on the formation of the German Zollverein.
- Data is tagged with specific historical and economic concepts including Trade, Zollverein, and transit Trade.
Limitations
- Specific data structure, including column names, row count, and file formats, is unknown.
- The dataset's temporal coverage and geographic scope are not explicitly detailed in the provided input.
Provenance
- Source
- ICPSR Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- null
- Time Range
- Covers events from 1815 to 1834.
- Freshness
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- Geography
- Focuses on Prussia and other German states.