Political Economy of Trade Policy: The Case of the Late Russian Empire

The aim of the thesis is to study different aspects of the late Russian Empire’s trade policy of the late Russian Empire with focus on its determinants and formation process. ThisIt is the first study thatwhich examines econometrically the factors thatwhich defined the country’s tariff policy of the country in the 1890s, including study of the role which the business community played in the policy formation, and provides new trade data for the future research on the subject.