INTRA-INDUSTRY TRADE IN BORDER REGION’S ECONOMY IN RUSSIAN FEDERATION (THE CASE OF SIBERIAN BORDER REGIONS)

The article describes the impact of intra-industry trade to regional econo- mies for border regions in Russia. The indicators of intra-industry trade allow to identify the qualitative characteristics of international trade, and thus to assess the vulnerability and de- pendence of regional economy. The author calculated the index of Grubel-Lloyd index and overlapping trade index for the border regions of the Siberian Federal District (as an exam- ple). It is shown that the share of intra-industry trade characterizes the technological struc- ture of regional exports and indirectly indicates the level of technological development of the border region. The analysis of intra-industry trade indices allows us to estimate how much the region’s economy depends on the situation on world commodity markets and is able to resist the negative externality