Before this most recent confrontation, a World Bank report on the Russian economy predicts that Russia is set to pay a significant price in lost growth due to serious East-West confrontation like invading Georgia. The potential risk created by this most recent crisis could contract Russia’s GDP by as mush as 1.8 percent if the crisis persists. Assuming that the impact from this crisis is short-lived, GDP could grow by 1.1 percent, which is half of the World Bank’s forecast in December.
The Crimea crisis has also caused the European Union to look for other sources of energy. Russia currently provides about one third of the EU’s oil and gas, and some countries “are almost 100-percent reliant on Russian gas”. Due to this dependency, British Prime Minister David Cameron said energy dependence and the adoption of technologies like shale gas fracking should be the focus of Europe’s political agenda. He believes that the reserves of shale gas in southeastern Europe, Poland, and England can be used instead of Russian oil. If Europe starts shale gas fracking, Russia’s GDP could suffer even more.
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-economic-costs-of-annexing-crimea-are-mounting-for-russia-2014-3
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see my previous post about the same issue: http://econ398.academic.wlu.edu/2014/03/western-banks-lend-billions-to-russia/
so how much the economic costs will be for Russia?
It’s likely that it will hurt the western countries economically as well. The question here is who gets hurt more severely, and if the political leader believes that hurt is worth their political goal or not.
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