evolved from "backward" to an agricultural powerhouse. Its production and total factor productivity more than doubled. Brazil … country to country depending on which perquisites were present or absent. In the past twenty years, Brazilian agriculture … is in the worlds' top five producers of coffee, soybeans, oranges, beef and corn. Yet, some segments of agriculture lag …

of economic growth. It examines this hypothesis by estimating the productivity gain afforded to Brazilian textile firms … by the reform of the regulations governing Brazil's securities markets in 1890. This analysis is based on panel data … regressions on 18 firm-level censuses covering the period 1866-1934, which permit me to decompose total factor productivity growth …

productivity sort across city sizes and select into exporting. The model allows us to study the geographic implications of trade … raises not only the aggregate productivity of the economy but also its aggregate export intensity, by allowing more firms to …

This paper studies the effects of trade liberalization on the evolution of firm productivity. The productivity of each … nominal tariffs on firms' productivity levels is identified. After controlling for the endogeneity of nominal tariffs, the … estimated coefficient for tariffs in the productivity equation turns out to be negative. Second, a measure of tariffs on inputs …

mismatches are associated with significant productivity losses …

"This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty … productivity in cotton declined. With the improvement of the outgrower scheme of later years, farmers devoted larger shares of land … to cash crops, and farm productivity significantly increased"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site …

heat reduces non-agricultural productivity, but less so than in agriculture, implying that hot countries could adapt to … perversely pulls labor into agriculture where its productivity suffers most and reallocation exacerbates the global decline in … of climate change on sectoral reallocation and aggregate productivity. First, I use firm-level data from a wide range of …

U.S. agriculture was transformed during the 20th century by waves of innovation with mechanical, biological, chemical …, and information technologies. Compared with a few decades ago, today's agriculture is much less labor intensive and farms … the United States towards agriculturally important middle-income countries, especially China, India and Brazil. U …

This paper seeks to explain the U-shaped relationship between farm productivity and farm scale - the initial fall in … productivity as farm size increases from its lowest levels and the continuous upward trajectory as scale increases after a …