Recent innovation literature has documented the benefits of cross-pollination of ideas across a wide set of industries …

technology trade, marketing and imperfect capital markets. Paying an import with export goods rather than cash (barter) helps to … overcome incentive problems that arise in debt repayment of highly indebted countries. Payment in export goods removes the … an export (countertrade) helps to solve the incentive problems related to the technology transfer to developing countries …

In this paper we estimate the rate of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in 80 sectors of Brazilian manufacturing …