New Estimates for Direction of Trade Statistics /

In March 2017, the IMF published an upgrade of its Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS) dataset. This paper documents the new methodology that has been developed to estimate missing observations of bilateral trade statistics on a monthly basis. The new estimation procedure is founded on a benchmarki...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marini, Marco
Other Authors: Dippelsman, Robert, Stanger, Michael
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2018.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2018/016
Online Access:Full text available on IMF