Role of Export Credit Insurance and the Development of Russian Export Trade

Abstract

Since the Russian Agency for Export Credit and Investment Insurance (EXIAR) was established in 2011, only a few scientists have bothered to substantiate of the Agency’s economic policy. The aim of the paper is to investigate the role of EXIAR economic policy in promoting the growth of Russia’s export trade. The current study conducts methods such as statistical, comparative and empirical analysis of panel data on the basis of econometric models. The results of the research suggest that export credit insurance can be useful for the development of Russian export trade, especially for exports to high-risk developing countries and to high-value-added Russian exporting enterprises, such as machinery, electrical and chemical-pharmaceutical industries. The authors suggest that Russia should raise the status of export credit insurance, increase the penetration rate of high-tech goods into key countries-importers, improve the foreign trade oppor tunities of exporting enterprises.