Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/212636 
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Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
BOFIT Discussion Papers No. 23/2008
Publisher: 
Bank of Finland, Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT), Helsinki
Abstract: 
The objective of the paper is to study Russia's pattern of specialisation in the manufactures trade since 1998. Russia's global trade balance for manufactures is rapidly deteriorating. However, the trade pattern in manufactures should be differentiated according to Russia's main trading partners: the European Union (EU), the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and China. On the basis of trade indicator analysis (revealed comparative advantages and Grubel-Lloyd index of intra-industry trade), we show that Russia is globally disadvantaged in the manufactures trade vis-à-vis the EU and China, and advantaged in the trade with the within the CIS. Russia is managing to expand its manufactured exports to other CIS countries. However, it is gradually losing its role of main supplier of capital goods in the post-Soviet space.
Subjects: 
international trade
trade specialisation
revealed comparative advantage
intra-industry trade
Russia
JEL: 
F14
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ISBN: 
978-952-462-937-9
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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