law of motion for productivity, which reinforces the importance of accounting for firm export status to study the …This paper explores the link between exports and total factor productivity (TFP) for Brazilian manufacturing firms over … the period 2000-2008, both under the assumption of an exogenous or an endogenous law of motion for productivity. The …

manufacturing production, innovation and microsocial data for Brazil, in order to measure productivity and SH, to analyze its …This paper discusses the evolution of firms' productivity and structural heterogeneity (SH) in the Brazilian … large share of total firms is in the lowest productivity groups of the production structure, and there are very large …

Brazil's trade liberalization between 1990 and 1993, and its partial reversal in 1995, are used to study how reduced … inward trade barriers affect productivity. The production function of Brazilian manufacturers is estimated at the ISIC3 two …-digit level under various alternatives, including an extension of Olley and Pakes' (1996) procedure. Firm-level productivity is …

Brazil's trade liberalization between 1990 and 1993, and its partial reversal in 1995, are used to study how reduced … inward trade barriers affect productivity. The production function of Brazilian manufacturers is estimated at the ISIC3 two …-digit level under various alternatives, including an extension of Olley and Pakes' (1996) procedure. Firm-level productivity is …