عوامل تعيين كننده خاص كشوري تجارت درون صنعت IIT در كشورهاي در حال توسعه

The Country-Specific Determinants of Intra-industry Trade in Developing Countries

The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyze country-level determinants of Intra-industry Trade (IIT) in 13 selected developing countries from 1994 to 1998. To accomplish this, both bilateral and total trade flows calculated were for all the 13 countries. The determinants of 11T have been estimated using both pooled and cross-sectional data. The results support the hypothsis that the economic growth is a factor determining the IIT. They also suggest that market size, membership in regional economic organization and similarity in per capita incomes are other country-specific determinants of IIT. In addition, it seems that a common language has the positive effect on bilateral IIT. On the other hand, the results suggest that trade barriers limit IIT and R&D expenditures reinforce interindustry trade, and that there is a significant negative correlation between the extent IIT and trade imbalance. However, the paper does not provide definite results concerning the effect of both distance and multinational enterprises (MNEs) on IIT. In short, the results of the present paper indicate the significance of country-specific factors