Replication Data for: Empty Vessel Integration? Latin America's Intraregional Trade Gap: A Research Note

This dataset contains the data and code used in the analysis of intra-regional trade patterns, with a focus on value-added trade weighted by Lall (2000) technological classifications. The dataset combines trade data from the CEPII BACI dataset (based on UN Comtrade), along with control variables from World Bank and V-Dem Institute. The repository includes: A cleaned dataset used for regression analysis Scripts used for data cleaning, transformation, and statistical modeling Documentation to enable full replication of results. Due to size constraints, the CEPII BACI dataset is available through external links: https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37 All transformations are fully documented in the provided code.