The auto industry is an international oligopoly that has a long tradition of influencing trade negotiations and national policies. Due to the industry's size and production linkages, the investment decisions made by the assembly firms often generate economic consequences that can be easily...

This paper aims at analyzing the theoretical concept of deindustrialization, and evaluating if Brazil, following the implementation of economic reforms in the 1990's, has suffered from a "new Dutch disease". Despite the manufacturing sector declining participation in the Brazilian Gross Domestic...