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In progress: Global Banking from 1850--1990
Description: banking offices around the world linked to headquarters (bilateral panel of cross-border banking connections) and annual headquarter bank balance sheets
In progress: Industry composition of bilateral international trade from 1850--1940
Description: historical annual analog to UN Comtrade
Coming soon: International trade from 1850--2020
Description: extension of the 1850--1914 dataset with contemporary country entities and borders after 1914
International trade from 1850--1914
Description: nominal values for standardized country borders in millions of pounds sterling
Citation •
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@article{xu2022reshaping,
title={Reshaping global trade: the immediate and long-run effects of bank failures},
author={Xu, Chenzi},
journal={Quarterly Journal of Economics},
volume={137},
number={4},
pages={},
year={2022},
publisher={Oxford University Press}
}
Exposure to British bank failures after 1866 Overend & Gurney crisis
Description: world-wide city-level lending and shift-share exposure to bank failures.
Full description and documentation in "Reshaping Global Trade" replication package
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@article{xu2022reshaping,
title={Reshaping global trade: the immediate and long-run effects of bank failures},
author={Xu, Chenzi},
journal={Quarterly Journal of Economics},
volume={137},
number={4},
pages={},
year={2022},
publisher={Oxford University Press}
}
US county-level monetary market access in 1870s and 1880s
Description: geo-coded county-level measures based on physical transportation network and national bank network.
Full description and documentation in "Real Effects of Supplying Safe Private Money" replication package
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@article{xu2024real,
title={Real effects of supplying safe private money},
author={Xu, Chenzi and Yang, He},
journal={Journal of Financial Economics}
,
year={2024},
volume={157},
pages={103868},
}
Full Replication Package for "Reshaping Global Trade" (QJE)
@article{xu2022reshaping,
title={Reshaping global trade: the immediate and long-run effects of bank failures},
author={Xu, Chenzi},
journal={Quarterly Journal of Economics},
volume={137},
number={4},
pages={2107--2161},
year={2022},
publisher={Oxford University Press}
}
Full Replication Package for "Real Effects of Supplying Safe Private Money" (JFE)
@article{xu2024real,
title={Real effects of supplying safe private money},
author={Xu, Chenzi and Yang, He},
journal={Journal of Financial Economics}
,
year={2024},
volume={157},
pages={103868},
}
Full Replication Package for "EXIM's Exit"
@techreport{matray2024exim,
title={EXIM's exit: The real effects of trade financing by export credit agencies},
author={Matray, Adrien and Mueller, Karsten and Xu, Chenzi and Kabir, Poorya},
year={2024},
type={NBER Working Paper 32019},
}
"Historical Data Sources in International Macro Finance"
NBER IFM Data Sources and Stanford Big Data Initiative in International Macro Finance