Beyond Borders--Reconsidering Regional Trade in Central Asia

This paper investigates the barriers to trade in Central Asia. While much of the existing literature on international integration of FSU countries has focused on the quantities traded, we use relative prices to shed some light on impediments to trade. We find that the impact of borders on price vari...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Grafe, Clemens, Raiser, Martin, Sakatsume, Toshiaki
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Trade Policy International Trade Organizations F130 Country and Industry Studies of Trade F140 International Linkages to Development Role of International Organizations O190 Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions: International Trade, Finance, Investment, and Aid P330
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5800

id	okr-10986-5800
recordtype	oai_dc
spelling	okr-10986-58002021-04-23T14:02:23Z Beyond Borders--Reconsidering Regional Trade in Central Asia Grafe, Clemens Raiser, Martin Sakatsume, Toshiaki Trade Policy International Trade Organizations F130 Country and Industry Studies of Trade F140 International Linkages to Development Role of International Organizations O190 Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions: International Trade, Finance, Investment, and Aid P330 This paper investigates the barriers to trade in Central Asia. While much of the existing literature on international integration of FSU countries has focused on the quantities traded, we use relative prices to shed some light on impediments to trade. We find that the impact of borders on price variations across different locations in Central Asia is much smaller than conventionally thought. While prices vary significantly across the region, variations within one country are just as large as variations across countries. We hypothesise (although we cannot prove) that this is due to obstacles to trade, and in particular rent seeking by enforcement agencies at the numerous internal check points. The paper also confirms that in relative terms, the borders with Uzbekistan are considerably more difficult to cross than those with Kazakhstan or the Kyrgyz Republic. 2012-03-30T07:34:36Z 2012-03-30T07:34:36Z 2008 Journal Article Journal of Comparative Economics 01475967 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5800 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article Europe and Central Asia
repository_type	Digital Repository
institution_category	Foreign Institution
institution	Digital Repositories
building	World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
collection	World Bank
language	EN
topic	Trade Policy International Trade Organizations F130 Country and Industry Studies of Trade F140 International Linkages to Development Role of International Organizations O190 Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions: International Trade, Finance, Investment, and Aid P330
spellingShingle	Trade Policy International Trade Organizations F130 Country and Industry Studies of Trade F140 International Linkages to Development Role of International Organizations O190 Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions: International Trade, Finance, Investment, and Aid P330 Grafe, Clemens Raiser, Martin Sakatsume, Toshiaki Beyond Borders--Reconsidering Regional Trade in Central Asia
geographic_facet	Europe and Central Asia
relation	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
description	This paper investigates the barriers to trade in Central Asia. While much of the existing literature on international integration of FSU countries has focused on the quantities traded, we use relative prices to shed some light on impediments to trade. We find that the impact of borders on price variations across different locations in Central Asia is much smaller than conventionally thought. While prices vary significantly across the region, variations within one country are just as large as variations across countries. We hypothesise (although we cannot prove) that this is due to obstacles to trade, and in particular rent seeking by enforcement agencies at the numerous internal check points. The paper also confirms that in relative terms, the borders with Uzbekistan are considerably more difficult to cross than those with Kazakhstan or the Kyrgyz Republic.
format	Journal Article
author	Grafe, Clemens Raiser, Martin Sakatsume, Toshiaki
author_facet	Grafe, Clemens Raiser, Martin Sakatsume, Toshiaki
author_sort	Grafe, Clemens
title	Beyond Borders--Reconsidering Regional Trade in Central Asia
title_short	Beyond Borders--Reconsidering Regional Trade in Central Asia
title_full	Beyond Borders--Reconsidering Regional Trade in Central Asia
title_fullStr	Beyond Borders--Reconsidering Regional Trade in Central Asia
title_full_unstemmed	Beyond Borders--Reconsidering Regional Trade in Central Asia
title_sort	beyond borders--reconsidering regional trade in central asia
publishDate	2012
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5800
_version_	1764396343950835712

Beyond Borders--Reconsidering Regional Trade in Central Asia

Similar Items