Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name:G. Idrisov Author-Name-First:G. Author-Name-Last: Idrisov Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Author-Name:Yu. Ponomarev Author-Name-First:Yu. Author-Name-Last: Ponomarev Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Title: COMMODITY TURNOVER: A DELAYED FALL Abstract: In late 2014 – early 2015, retail and wholesale trade, the one of the biggest sector of Russian economy, longer than others ‘put up resistance’ to the negative macroeconomic trends and showed an increase, however small, in commodity turnover. Meanwhile, in the autumn of 2015, in spite of a relative stabilization of Russian terms of trade and foreign exchange rate dynamics, commodity turnover in Russia experienced its sharpest downfall since 2000. This phenomenon is largely explained by the delayed pass-through eff ect of the ruble’s exchange rate fluctuations into commodity prices and by the gradual adaptation of households to new permanent income. Classification-JEL:L3; K1; K2; K3; P16; Y80 Keywords: Russian Economy Journal: Russian Economic Developments Year: 2015 Issue: 12 Month: December Pages: 64-66 File-URL: http://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/recdev/644Idrisov.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:gai:recdev:644