Our raw trade data comes from the United Nations COMTRADE database, a publicly available resource. Our research team - led by Sebastian Bustos, with key inputs from Muhammed Yıldırım and Ricardo Hausmann - apply a unique method to clean the trade data to account for inconsistent reporting practices and thereby generate estimates of trade flows between countries.
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Our raw trade data comes from the United Nations COMTRADE database, a publicly available resource. Our research team - led by Sebastian Bustos, with key inputs from Muhammed Yıldırım and Ricardo Hausmann - apply a unique method to clean the trade data to account for inconsistent reporting practices and thereby generate estimates of trade flows between countries.
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