Russia and the WTO : The "Gravity" of Outsider Status /

With China's accession to the WTO in 2001, Russia is by far that organization's most prominent nonmember. This paper applies the gravity model to gauge whether this "outsider" status has been affecting Russia's export structure. On the basis of cross-section and panel regres...

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Autor principal: Lissovolik, Yaroslav
Otros Autores: Lissovolik, Bogdan
Formato: Revista
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2004.
Colección:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2004/159
Acceso en línea:Full text available on IMF
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