The paper assesses the impact of FDI spillovers on the propensity to export for Russian firms in manufacturing industries. It conjectures that the effects of FDI spillovers on export propensity are higher for small and medium sized enter- pises than for large firms. In 2014-2016, there has been observed an increasing propensity of export for Russian firms. Estimates show that spillovers were most significant in 2015 when a positive effect of currency devaluation was observed.
In this paper we study the linkage between export structure and economic development in Russian regions. We conjecture that not only export variety per se , but export variety of related products, located at a small distance in the product space, significantly contributes to economic growth. Empirical analysis highlights the importance of the product space density around products with comparative advantage for economic growth in Russian regions during 2003—2008. We conclude that the presence of industry variety in a region facilitates economic development.
In this paper we investigate the impact of business climate and classical gravity variables on trade flows survival from export-oriented non-resource dependent Russian regions. We employ data on electronic copies of cargo custom declarations in 2002-2010 provided by the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation and build the database for the more than 45 000 export flows from of 20 export-oriented Russian regions. We test two types of business climate variablesthose reflecting the quality of human and financial resources in a region and those reflecting the quality of administrative regulation and hard infrastructure. We control for uncertainty and time effects and find that the effects of improvements of business climate in a region are falling over time and that they are more important for bigger export values. Thus, there is an evidence of presence of learning curve and scale effects for exporters when the latter become more efficient with time in treating with regional-level resources and regulatory environment.
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