Historically consolidated as the centre of the Brazilian industrialization process, the State of São Paulo, and particularly its metropolitan homonymous region, observed a relative loss of participation in the industrial product from the 1970s. Factors such as the diseconomies of agglomeration...

Historically consolidated as the centre of the Brazilian industrialization process, the State of São Paulo, and particularly its metropolitan homonymous region, observed a relative loss of participation in the industrial product from the 1970s. Factors such as the diseconomies of agglomeration...

This paper aims to examine the effects of trade openness on the output volatility in different sectors of manufacturing industry between 1996 and 2008. To do so, we use data of 18 sectors for 13 years, estimating an econometric model using a panel dataset by GMM. The results show that the...

The paper carries out an exploratory analysis of the determinants of the level of investment of manufacturing firms in Brazil, from 1996 to 2006. The exercise departed from the premise that investment responds both to internal and external factors, such as the sector in which each firm is...

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the role of the manufacturing sector in the development process through the first two laws of Kaldor. The first states that the higher the growth of industrial output, more significant is the growth rate of the product of the economy as a whole. The second...

In developing economies the purchase of a new machine by the firm can be a way of introducing a new product or processes. Under such considerations, this paper searches to measure the assumption of innovation via machine embodied technology, by verifying its impacts over the firm's productivity....

This work aims at analyzing, for an unprecedented perspective, possible evidences of deindustrialization in the Brazilian economy. For that, it analyzes both regional and state data for the period 1985-2010, using indicators of deindustrialization already established. In addition, regional...

In recent decades, the design, development and use of space services has become an important economic pillar in several economies, where the increased magnitude of activities and space products and services gained importance in the process of economic and social development, not only in...

This paper discusses the de-industrialization hypothesis in Brazil based on indicators usually not found in the literature. The evaluation was based on the structure and dynamics of the manufacturing sector vis-à-vis the rest of the economy and, in addition, from an intra-industrial standpoint...