Structural change in times of increasing openness: assessing path dependency in European economic integration

Claudius Gräbner, Philipp Heimberger, Jakob Kapeller and Bernhard Schütz

Here we provide all the data and the code to replicate all empirical exercises in the abovementioned paper. The paper is published open access and can be cited as follows:

Gräbner, C., Heimberger, P., Kapeller, J. and Schütz, B. (2019): Structural change in times of increasing openness: assessing path dependency in European economic integration, in: Journal of Evolutionary Economics, forthcoming. DOI: 10.1007/s00191-019-00639-6

The repository contains all code and data to replicate all figures and tables in the paper. If you just want to replicate all figures and tables simply run src/0_complete-replication.R, but make sure that your working directory is set to the root of the repository and that all output folders exist.

If you want to experiment with the code or make robustness checks on your own, you can use all R files on their own, but make sure to install and attach all packages as in src/0_complete-replication.R.

For more information about the data and data sources see data/meta_data.xlsx.

The file output/session_info.txt contains information about the hardware as well as the packages used when the output for the original paper was produced.

Use this repo to contact us regarding any queries. Alternatively, you may contact Claudius directly.