The gravitational constant?

We introduce a new dataset on British exports at the bilateral, commodity-level from 1700 to 1899. We then pit two primary determinants of bilateral trade against one another: the trade-diminishing effects of distance versus the trade-enhancing effects of the British Empire. We find that gravity exe...

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Autores principales: Jacks, D, O’Rourke, K, Taylor, A
Formato: Working paper
Publicado: University of Oxford 2020