Assessment of Import Substitution Due to the Trade Embargo in Russia, 2014–2016

Оценка масштабов импортозамещения в России в 2014–2016 годах

Kadochnikov, Pavel A. (Кадочников, Павел А.) (), Chentsov, Alexander M. (Ченцов, Александр М.) () and Alexander Knobel
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Kadochnikov, Pavel A. (Кадочников, Павел А.): Russian Foreign Trade Academy
Chentsov, Alexander M. (Ченцов, Александр М.): Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Ekonomicheskaya Politika / Economic Policy, 2019, vol. 1, 8-33

Abstract: A sharp depreciation of the ruble during 2014–2015 has facilitated import reduction and growth of domestic production in Russia. In this article, we evaluate the effects of import substitution by estimating demand functions for imported and domestically produced commodities using the Rotterdam model. We calculate price and income elasticities for 17 aggregated commodity groups, and decompose changes in consumption into income and substitution effects. The effects of price changes and real income deterioration are extracted and analyzed. In the paper, we claim that the main factor that affected consumption demand during that period was a sharp appreciation of import. In a number of cases, this factor completely explains the changes in consumption, including some of the commodities which Russia embargoed in 2014. For several commodity groups, including Meat, and Preparations of vegetables and fruit, the import appreciation was a single main factor that affected the drop in import quantities (by 53% and 28% weight amount respectively) and growth of demand for domestic goods (by 34% and 55%).The second factor that affected demand was a decline of real incomes. For example, in the case of alcoholic beverages, the real income reduction explained the 14% decrease of demand for domestically produced goods, and the 34% drop in imports. A minor role in the events was played by substitution due to changes in domestic goods prices. This effect had a determining and statistically significant influence only in the case of demand reduction for domestically produced fish (by 12%).

Keywords: models of demand; import; import substitution. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D12 F13 F14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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