
The /Build/Input folder contains all the raw data that will be cleaned/organized to be used for the main empirical analysis for the paper in ../Analysis.

Below is a description of the raw data in /Build/Input:

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“country_nomenclature.dta”
Contains a correspondence between various country code nomenclatures.
The variables are:
--- country ---: country name
--- fcode ---: French country code
--- tcode ---: ISO3 country code
--- uncode ---: UN 3-digit country code
--- wtcode ---: Feenstra’s NBER World Trade Flows 6-digit country code

“export92.dta”
French firm level exports in the year 1992, from the French customs.
The variables are:
--- siren ---: firm SIRENE unique identifier
--- pay ---: country code (French nomenclature, “fcode”)
--- vfte ---: exports in French Francs

“siren.dta”
French firm level data for the year 1992, from the French Statistical Institute (INSEE).
The variables are:
--- siren ---: firm SIRENE unique identifier
--- n100 ---: the industrial sector the firm belongs to

“gravdata_cepii.dta”
Geographic informations from the CEPII.
Downloaded from http://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/presentation.asp?id=8.

“wtf92.dta”
Feenstra’s NBER World Trade Flows in the year 1992.
Downloaded from http://cid.econ.ucdavis.edu/data/undata/wtf92.zip.
The variables I use are:
--- year ---: year
--- icode ---: importer country code
--- importer ---: importer country name
--- ecode ---: exporter country code
--- exporter ---: exporter country name
--- sitc4 ---: 4-digit SITC sector code
--- value ---: value of exports in $1,000’s.


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