Developmental trends in Russian foreign trade

Bc. Dariya Vorobyeva

Diplomová práce

Abstract:

This diploma thesis is a study of the developmental trends in Russian foreign trade. The main aim of this paper is to define what the most important turnarounds have occurred in the structure of Russian foreign trade due to historic events, such as Devaluation of 1998, Crisis of 2008, Russia’s entering the WTO in 2012, Crimea event and sanctions of 2014 until the present times of 2018 year. Firstly, these changes are investigated with regard to geography of main trade partners and secondly, with the regard to commodity structure and traded volumes. Another research question is how the mentioned above events impacted on economic growth or recession in Russia and how influenced its foreign trade.This work is divided into practical and theoretical parts. The theoretical research is based on the literature overview of the main concepts of Foreign trade theories, economic indicators of foreign trade and international organizations influencing the trade. In the end of theoretical part, the role of international trade in economy is discussed. The practical part includes the overview of certain historic events and selected macroeconomic indicators to reflect the state of Russian economic performance. In the end of practical part, the regression analysis along with comparative techniques examine the relationship between GDP growth, export of natural resources, the rest of the export, exchange rate and unemployment rate.

Keywords

Foreign trade, Developmental Trends, Regression analysis, Russia

Jazyk práce: angličtina

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 4. 4. 2020

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Vedoucí: Mgr. Elena Kuzmenko, Ph.D.
• Oponent: Alena Hatskevich, Ph.D.

Česká zemědělská univerzita v Praze

Provozně ekonomická fakulta

Magisterský studijní program / obor:
Economics and Management / Economics and Management