advaitmoharir / trade_decomp

Data and code for the paper "Decomposing India's Trade Ratio: 1980-2021".

Decomposing India's Trade Ratio: 1980 - 2021

This repository contains the code for the paper "Decomposing India's Trade Ratio: 1980-2021. This paper is co-authored with Arjun Jayadev and Josh Mason.

Repo Structure

The repo consists of the following folders

1. 2_code : Code required to pull and clean raw data, implement the decomposition and generate figures and tables
2. 3_raw: Raw data for India's trading partners and other variables.
3. 4_output: Cleaned csvs generated by code.
4. 5_figures: Figures and tables in the paper.

Code

The folder 2_code consists of the following R scripts:

1. 0_master: Loads all packages and runs all scripts.
2. 01_prep: Pulls and cleans raw data for India's trading partners.
3. 02_decomp: Implements decomposition for trade ratio (goods only).
4. 03_decomp_goods_services: Implements decomposition for trade ratio (goods and services).
5. 04_exhibits: Generates figures and tables used in paper.

Replication

To replicate the results in the paper, follow the steps below

1. Open decomposition.Rproj in RStudio.
2. Within the project, open 0_master from 2_code.
3. Run the file.

Software

The scripts are written in R using RStudio 2022.07.2+576 "Spotted Wakerobin" Release. Raw and clean csvs were opened in Microsoft Excel 16.