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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Main Authors: Djankov, Simeon, Freund, Caroline
Format: Publications & Research
Language:en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21443

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