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This is the homepage for the data and computer code related to gravity modeling of international trade. This data and code are designed to work together as the Gravity Modeling Environment (GME). To learn more about the gravity portal, read this description.
The Gravity Portal is maintained by the Gravity Modeling Group. To learn more about the group, visit our experts page and research page.
Products
International Trade and Production Database for Estimation (ITPD-E) - Contains international and domestic trade for 265 countries in 1986-2019. It includes data for 170 industries in agriculture, mining, energy, manufacturing, and services.
⭐NEW⭐ International Trade and Production Database for Simulation (ITPD-S) - Has the same dimensions as the ITPD-E and fills in missing domestic trade data using a variety of methods.
Dynamic Gravity Dataset (DGD) - Describes country characteristics and relationships between trading partners. It covers the period between 1948 and 2019.
Multinational Revenue, Employment, and Investment Database (MREID) - Provides bilateral, industry-level data on activities of multinational enterprises. Coverage includes 25 industries in 185 countries during the period between 2010 and 2021.
Domestic and International Common Language Database (DICL) - Bilateral measures of both international and domestic language similarity for 242 countries.
Gravity Modeling Environment (GME) - Python package to perform Poisson Pseudo-Maximum Likelihood (PPML) estimation.
Announcements
December 2024: First release of the International Trade and Production Database for Simulation (ITPD-S) is posted.
March 2024: Update and expansion of Domestic and International Common Language database posted.
November 2023: Release 1 of the Multinational Revenue, Employment, and Investment Database is posted.
July 2022: Release 2 of the International Trade and Production Database for Estimation is posted.
March 2022 - present: USITC welcomes Rafael Dix-Carneiro (Associate Professor of Economics at Duke University) as a visiting scholar.
March 2021: Domestic and International Common Language Database (DICL) is posted.
March 2021: Update of Dynamic Gravity Dataset (version 2) is available.
May 2020: The International Trade and Production Database for Estimation (ITPD-E) is posted. You can get the data by using the links on the left.
January 2020 - July 2022: USITC welcomes Nuno Limão (Professor of Economics, University of Maryland) as a visiting scholar.
August 2019 - present: USITC welcomes Yoto V. Yotov (Professor of Economics, Drexel University) as a visiting scholar.
November 2018: "Gravity in Diagrams" by James Anderson is posted. Click here to view.
October 2018: Computer code to estimate the structural gravity model with PPML in Python is posted. Click here for more information.
July-October 2018: USITC welcomes James E. Anderson (William B. Neenan S.J. Millennium Professor of Economics at Boston College) as a visiting scholar.
April 2018: The Dynamic Gravity dataset is posted. You can get the data by using the links on the left.
January 2018: The Gravity Portal is open. This page can be reached at https://gravity.usitc.gov.
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