This paper tries to define the concept of Export Finance and establish if the Export Financing is cost-effective way to raise capital and how it is organized in the Russian Federation.
In order to do so, several methods have been used: the related literature has been studied, numerical analysis of economic-efficience of export financing has been prepared based on the real example and three interviews with experts in Export Finance have been conducted.
The findings suggests that Export Financing is an attractive way of financing in a current economic environment and there is no credible alternative to it on the Russian market. Moreover, the analysis show that despite of the number of advantages, that Export Financing have, there are still some gaps in Export Financing, but in general, Export Finance area is developing and becoming more and more popular among russian importers and exporters.
Source: Jönköping University
Author: Ageev, Ivan