After a half century of overtly inward-oriented policies, Brazil finally moved to open its trade regime in the early … 1990s. Being one the last countries to make this move in a region that notoriously lagged behind East Asia, Brazil was … macroeconomic policies were finally put in place and Brazil began to enjoy the benefits of a commodity boom, a new government took …

’s productivity growth decreases the relative nominal wage of the poor and the relative price index for the poor in Mexico and Brazil …

employing the smooth transition framework and annual time series data for Brazil from 1890 to 2003, we attempt to address on the …

productivity leaving aside other effects that arise through the market selection process. Additionally, most studies have focused … on tariff barriers as the only obstacle to international trade and integration. In this paper we use data from Brazil and … Chile to analyze how trade affects aggregate productivity through the process of resource reallocation and to explore not …

; Gains from Trade ; Total Factor Productivity …

investigate the relation between firms' trading activities (importing, exporting or both) and productivity. We find important self … correlated within firms, failing to control for the importing activity leads to overstated average productivity premia of … exporters. -- Trade openness ; Firms' Heterogeneity ; Productivity …