Databases
Please do not hesitate to contact me to get help in using these databases (in other words: motivate me by showing your interest, and I will write a documentation. Before that, the information given here is provisional)
French external trade
TOFLIT18 through on Zenodo (datapackage format) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6573396 c. 570,000 observations of mainly French bilateral trade by product, 1716-1823
See the Toflit18 datascape
Retranscription of the «Observations sur les deux états remis par le Directeur de la Balance du Commerce. L’un concernant notre commerce avec l’Espagne en 1782, l’autre contenant le détail des toiles des Indes importées à l’étranger pour être réexportées pour le commerce d’Afrique en l’année 1784.», AN, F12/13101, n° 31 (done by Esther Benbassat (OFCE))
International trade in value-added
«Global value chains and the transmission of exchange rate shocks to consumer prices», with Hadrien Camatte, Violaine Faubert, Antoine Lalliard and Christine Rifflart
«Who produce for Whom in the World Economy?», with Christine Rifflart and Danièle Schweisguth, Canadian Journal of Economics, forthcoming 2011 (Pre-publication version, Online Statistical Appendix.pdf)
This file includes for 2004: standard and value-added bilateral trade per sector, VS and VS1 per sector and per country (not bilateral), the STATA do file used for the computation of these numbers and the GTAP name of the regions and sectors.
For 1997, 2001 and 2004 : standard and value-added bilateral trade per sector.
More data are available upon request.
Slave trade profits
« Profitability of slave and long distance trading in context: the case of eighteenth century France », Journal of Economic History, vol. 64, n°1, 2004. Draft (pdf) Data (.zip/.xls)
French domestic trade
“Domestic Trade and Market Size in Late 18th century France”, September 2010 in Journal of Economic History (Web Version.pdf) BDD_Domestic trade and market size.fp7.zip (File Maker Pro)
BDD_Domestic trade and market size.csv.zip (csv file, UTF-8 encoding)
BDD_Domestic trade and market size.dta.zip (Stata)
Domestic trade and market size.do (Stata programming)
Variable dictionary for BDD_Domestic trade and market size.txt
Bilateral transport costs.zip. The transport costs are also published on Zenodo doi:10.5281/zenodo.6341705