Assessing the Short-term Effect of Exchange Rate Liberalisation on Food Import Prices: The Regression Discontinuity in Time Employed for Russian Food Markets in 2014
Journal: Research on World Agricultural Economy
Year: 2022

This study summarises the main agricultural policies in Russia during 2014 and uses a sharp regression discontinuity design over time and data from the International Trade Centre to estimate the short-term effects of exchange rate liberalization in November 2014 on import prices in Russian food markets. The sharp regression discontinuity design over time allowed an export analysis of the short-term causal effects of the intervention on food import prices and distinguished the effect of exchange