Russian foreign trade - Case study of natural gas export

Bc. Bahjat Ismail, BBA

Master's thesis

Abstract:

The diploma thesis is devoted to study foreign trade of the Russian Federation, focusing on natural gas exports. This work is divided into two part: theoretical and practical. Theoretical part is aimed to discover the essence of natural gas, global gas market, overview of gas industry in Russia and membership of energy organizations. Practical part deals with trade balance, main trade partners, role of natural gas exports in the Russian economy and statistical analysis of relationship among exports of Russian natural gas and selected economic indicators is performed with construction of one-equation econometric model, i.e. the purpose of this part of thesis is to find out factors that affect a volume of chosen commodity transported to other countries and their degree of influence. It is also supported by model estimation, economic and statistical verification, model application. The time interval for analysis is taken for a 20-year period from 2000 to 2019. The data for econometric model is taken from the Federal State Statistics Service of Russia, the Central Bank of Russia and International Energy Agency

Keywords

Russia, exports, foreign trade, trade balance, natural gas, commodity, natural resources

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 30. 11. 2020

Thesis defence

• Supervisor: prof. Ing. Mansoor Maitah, Ph.D. Ph.D.

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Economics and Management

Master programme / field:
Economics and Management / Economics and Management