Replication Data for: EFFECTS OF TRADE RESISTANCES ON THE CAPITAL GOODS SECTOR: EVIDENCE FROM A STRUCTURAL GRAVITY MODEL FOR BRAZIL (2008–2016)

Dataset Description: Purpose: Enables replication of empirical findings presented in the manuscript "EFFECTS OF TRADE RESISTANCES ON THE CAPITAL GOODS SECTOR: EVIDENCE FROM A STRUCTURAL GRAVITY MODEL FOR BRAZIL (2008–2016)". Nature and Scope: Quantitative panel dataset covering 2008-2016. Includes 144 countries with bilateral (exporter-importer) observations focused on the capital goods sector. Contains variables related to trade flows, trade policy, gravity determinants, macroeconomic indicators, and estimated model parameters. Content: The Stata dataset (20251019_submitted manuscript_data.dta) includes: bilateral capital goods import flows (imp); applied tariffs (tau, t_imp_Bra, t_exp_Bra); gravity variables (ln_DIST, contig, comlang, colony, rta); country-level macro data (ll, lk, lrgdpna); and estimated Multilateral Resistance terms (OMR/IMR). Origin: Data compiled from public sources: UN Comtrade, WITS, WTO (TRAINS, IDB, CTS), CEPII, PWT 9.1, Mario’s Larch RTA Database. OMR/IMR terms were generated via the estimation procedure detailed in the accompanying paper .
Code Description: Purpose: This Stata do-file (20251019_submitted manuscript_dofile.do) contains the complete code necessary to replicate the empirical results presented in the manuscript "EFFECTS OF TRADE RESISTANCES ON THE CAPITAL GOODS SECTOR: EVIDENCE FROM A STRUCTURAL GRAVITY MODEL FOR BRAZIL (2008–2016)". Nature and Scope: The file is a script written in Stata command language. Its scope covers the entire empirical workflow. Content: The do-file executes the following main procedures: Loads the accompanying dataset (20251019_submitted manuscript_data.dta). Defines global macros and sets up the estimation environment. Runs the first-stage Poisson Pseudo-Maximum Likelihood (PPML) gravity model estimations with high-dimensional fixed effects (exporter-product-year, importer-product-year, bilateral pairs) using the ppmlhdfe command. Recovers the estimated fixed effects and constructs the Multilateral Resistance terms (OMR and IMR) based on the gravity model results. Merges the MR terms back into the main dataset. Runs the second-stage OLS regressions for the production function using the recovered OMR term. Runs the second-stage OLS regressions for the capital accumulation function using the recovered IMR term. Includes commands for diagnostic tests (e.g., RESET, MaMu variance tests, if applicable within the code). Dependencies: Requires Stata statistical software (version specified in the do-file or compatible) and likely requires user-written packages such as ppmlhdfe. Requires the accompanying dataset (20251019_submitted manuscript_data.dta) to be in the Stata working directory.