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Historic commodity prices (1865-1950)

Along with Jason Hwang and Jeffrey Williamson I developed a country-specific commodity price index and commodity weights for 35 countries, 1865-1950.

The data were employed in a 2007 paper in the Journal of Development Economics: Winners and Losers in the Commodity Lottery: The Impact of Terms of Trade Growth and Volatility in the Periphery, 1870-1939. This citation can be used for the data.

The commodity data used in the paper are available in several forms: