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Disintegration and Trade Flows : Evidence from the Former Soviet Union

The authors study the effects of trade barriers and the persistence of past linkages on trade flows in the former Soviet Union. Estimating a gravity equation on trade among and between nine Russian regions and 14 former Soviet republics, they find that Russian regions traded 60 percent more with eac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Djankov, Simeon, Freund, Caroline
Language:en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2015
Subjects:
trade barriers
regional trade
transitional economies
tariffs
domestic trade
business networks
consumption patterns
trade partners
trade preferences
absolute value
ad valorem
benchmark
bilateral trade
border trade
capital stock
central planning
comparative advantage
consignment
country of origin
currency
customs
customs duties
development economics
elasticities
elasticity
elasticity of trade
empirical studies
exchange rate
export shares
exports
external shocks
factor endowments
financial sector
free trade
GDP
Global Integration
GNP
gravity equation
gravity model
income
input-output tables
international trade
market structure
monopolistic competition
national economies
non-tariff barriers
quotas
regionalism
regionalization
shipments
tariff barriers
tariff levels
tariff rate
tariff rates
telecommunications
theoretical models
trade agreement
trade costs
trade data
trade flow data
trade flows
trade intensity
trade liberalization
trade more
trade partner
trade patterns
trade policy
trade values
trading blocs
trains
transit
transport costs
trucks
volume of trade
wage differentials
wages
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21443

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