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:
- The BHW04 Commodity Price Index (CSV file)
- The BHW04 Commodity Price Index Source Data (zipped Excel file)
- A full data appendix can be found in NBER Working Paper 10600.
- Other variables from NBER Working Paper 10600 can be obtained from Jeff Williamson.
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