Matlab Codes for “General Equilibrium
Analysis of the Eaton-Kortum Model
of International Trade”
(with Robert E. Lucas, Jr.)
1) Unzip and Download all the files to a directory.
2) There is a set of readme*.m
files with instructions. They are:
readmecal.m, readmeeq.m, readmefig.m, readmewgains.m
They give the instructions to run different programs (calibration,
equilibrium, figures in the paper, and welfare gains, respectively) for
different variants of the model.
For example, help readmefig.m will give the instructions of
the codes to run to create all the figures in the paper.
Typying dataload ; examples ; at the matlab
prompt will produce a table and regressions used in the paper.
Data
The excel files have the raw data on GDP, tariffs, trade volume and trading
blocks in spreadsheet form in two different spreadsheets: tradedata.xls and matrixTradingBlocks.xls. The matlab file datatrade.m also has the raw data for
Table 2 in ascii format, the file descripdatatrade.m describe each of its columns. The matlab file
blockmatrix.m has the trading blocks in ascii format. The matlab file dmatrix.m has a matrx with the
pair-wise distances between the 60 countries. The
files countrycodes.m and longcountrynames.m give the names of each of the 60 countries used in the other files.