This report presents an analysis of the patterns of trade intra-firms and the determinants of the Brazilian exports. The main objective is to verify whether export firms with foreign capital interact with their mother companies in the country of origin of their capital. The results suggest...

The growing interest of Brazilian companies in the Argentine market has attracted the attention of the both economies on the implications and the reasons behind of this phenomenon. Recent data show a marked increased tendency flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Brazil toward the...

This article evaluated the recent changes in the profile and determinants of Brazilian firm's internationalization process. In the '90s, it was not intense, but highly concentrated on a few large domestic companies, and resulted from both strategies: to compensate the low dynamism of the...