Brazil's trade liberalization between 1990 and 1993, and its partial reversal in 1995, are used to study how reduced … inward trade barriers affect productivity. The production function of Brazilian manufacturers is estimated at the ISIC3 two …-digit level under various alternatives, including an extension of Olley and Pakes' (1996) procedure. Firm-level productivity is …

evidence for sequential sorting into different export-modes according to firm productivity: i) only the most productive firms …

We investigate theoretically and empirically the role of wholesalers in mediating the productivity effects of trade … liberalization. Intermediaries provide indirect access to foreign produced inputs. The productivity effects of input tariff cuts on … firms experience productivity gains from reducing input tariffs if trade intermediation of foreign inputs within their …

aggregate structural change. Rising manufacturing productivity and falling international trade costs further contribute to the … growth of large services firms in the densest urban areas, boosting services productivity and services exports, but also land …

are lower than in SM-II industries. -- technological regimes ; manufacturing industry ; Brazil …

productivity change. The model implies that (i) the so-far untreated effect stems from firms' planned efficiency responses to the … competitive environment and that (ii) a suit-able proxy to productivity is investment interacted with a sector-level competition …-effects estimation and remedying commonly suspected biases. Whereas productivity change is measured consistently, scale economies are not …