TY - UNPB

T1 - Determinants of Intra-Firm Trade

T2 - Evidence from Foreign Affliates in Sub-Saharan Africa

AU - Blanas, Sotiris

AU - Seric, Adnan

PY - 2017/6

Y1 - 2017/6

N2 - By exploiting a unique sample of foreign affliates in Sub-Saharan Africa, we study previously examined and unexamined firm-level determinants of intra-firm trade. We document that foreign affliates engaging in intra-firm trade are relatively few and that the majority of these also engage in trade at arm's length, which accounts for an important fraction of their total trade. The identified firm-level determinants of intra-firm trade are consistent with property rights and intangible assets theories of the multinational firm, with international production hierarchies theories, as well as with theories of different FDI types and of multinational activity under credit constraints.

AB - By exploiting a unique sample of foreign affliates in Sub-Saharan Africa, we study previously examined and unexamined firm-level determinants of intra-firm trade. We document that foreign affliates engaging in intra-firm trade are relatively few and that the majority of these also engage in trade at arm's length, which accounts for an important fraction of their total trade. The identified firm-level determinants of intra-firm trade are consistent with property rights and intangible assets theories of the multinational firm, with international production hierarchies theories, as well as with theories of different FDI types and of multinational activity under credit constraints.

KW - intra-firm trade determinants

KW - foreign affliates

KW - Sub-Saharan Africa

M3 - Working paper

T3 - Economics Working Paper Series

BT - Determinants of Intra-Firm Trade

PB - Lancaster University, Department of Economics

ER -