Openness and isolation: the trade performance of the former Soviet Central Asian countries

Mazhikeyev, Arman, Edwards, Huw and Rizov, Marian (2015) Openness and isolation: the trade performance of the former Soviet Central Asian countries. International Business Review, 24 (6) . pp. 935-947. ISSN 0969-5931 [Article] (doi:10.1016/j.ibusrev.2015.03.001)

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Abstract

Previous studies characterize some of the Former Soviet Central Asian countries (CACs) as “more open” (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan) and others as “more isolated” (Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) depending on their trade-over-GDP ratio. Being an open or isolationist economy has resulted respectively in more or less suitable environment for business and investment. We investigate the drivers of CACs trade performance by measuring contributions of country-specific properties and networking factors in 185 bilateral CACs trade flows over the period 1995-2011. We find that, even though all CACs’ trade has increased greatly since 1995, for the more open economies (Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan) trade changes are mainly explained by networking (bilateral) factors while for isolationist economies (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan) changes in trade are mostly explained by country-specific properties.

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