pder (version 1.0-1)

TradeFDI: Trade and Foreign Direct Investment in Germany and the United States

Description

yearly observations of 490 combinations of countries / industries from 1989 to 1999

number of observations : 3860

number of time-series : 11

country : Germany and United States

JEL codes: F12, F14, F21, F23

Chapter : 06

Usage

data(TradeFDI)

Arguments

Format

A dataframe containing:

id

id

year

time period

country

country name

indusid

industry code

importid

importer code

lrex

log real bilateral exports

lrfdi

log real bilateral outward stocks of FDI

lgdt

log sum of bilateral real GDP

lsimi

log (1-[exporter GDP/(exporter+importer GDP)]^2- [exporter GDP/(exporter+importer GDP)]^2)

lrk

log (real capital stock of exporter/real capital stock of importer)

lrh

log (secondary school enrolment of exporter/secondary school enrolment of importer)

lrl

log (labor force of exporter/labor force of importer)

ldist

log bilateral distance between exporter and importer

lkldist

(lrk-lrl) * ldist

lkgdt

abs(lrk)*lgdt

References

Peter Egger and Michael Pfaffermayr (2004) “Distance, Trade, and Fdi: A Hausman-taylor Sur Approach”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 19(2), 227--246, 10.1002/jae.721 .