Global Arms Trade Data for Gravity Model Replication

Replication data and code for the article 'Guns and Gravity: Is There a Home-Market Effect in the Global Arms Trade?' published in the Review of International Economics. The dataset was created by Meng Gao and colleagues and was last updated on May 12, 2026. It likely contains variables for analyzing international arms trade flows using a gravity model framework.

Use Cases

• Replicate econometric analyses of the home-market effect in arms trade based on the associated research paper.
• Test gravity model specifications for international trade using the provided data.
• Benchmark new models of the global arms trade against the published results.

Strengths

• Directly supports replication of a peer-reviewed academic article published in Review of International Economics.
• Associated with a specific DOI (10.1111/roie.70050) for citation and provenance.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse, associated with author Meng Gao.

Collection Method

Data compiled for academic research and replication.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-12 16:10:47; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Global