While many studies explain the correlation between firm-level productivity and export status entirely by better firms … provinces with weaker institutions. The same type of firms also enjoy the largest productivity gains immediately following …

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 …

in Brazil's agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) growth, which has accelerated at one of the world's fastest … potential employment generation. Brazil offers an interesting case study because of its wide spectrum of farm sizes and the …

This paper explores the link between Brazil's political institutions and its disappointing productivity and growth in … and cuts in unprotected expenditures, which put a drag on productivity and growth. In a context of robust checks and … distortions that conspire against its realization. While some improvements in productivity and growth have occurred in the past …

This paper presents and comparatively analyzes three case studies of productive development agencies (PDAs) in Brazil …

This paper uses the sudden surge in Chinese competition faced by Brazil's manufacturers in the 2000s to revisit the … findings from the literature on how productivity, innovation, and employment were impacted by the Great Liberalizationa period …, procompetitive effect of trade on total factor productivity (TFP). However, as in the 1990s, these gains do not seem to have been …