export their highest-sales products across multiple destinations. To account for these regularities, we develop a model of …

-economy model, we explore predictors that firms will engage in global markets and export more intensively. Our results based on a … detailed firm-level panel of data for Brazilian 52,667 firms from 1995-2007, show that the decision to export and increase … export sales is driven by size, the debt ratio, the current ratio and operating costs as well as the direct impact of the …

We examine multi-product exporters and use firm-product-destination data to quantify export entry barriers. Our general …

2000-2011, 99,74%, might be attributed to competiveness effect.Results indicate that Brazil's natural honey market was the …

This paper examines whether export participation matters for job training. The paper draws on longitudinal worker … uses industry-specific exchange rate movements to generate exogenous variation in export status at the firm-level. The … findings indicate that export participation tends to increase the share of workers who receive technical upgrading. The results …

exports may not be a random process. The results confirm the self-selection hypothesis and show that starting to export yields … productivity, which reinforces the importance of accounting for firm export status to study the evolution of productivity …

This note examines in detail Brazil?s export performance over the past 15 years, focusing not only on growth and …

The objective of this paper is to provide a comprehensive explanation of the production and export intensification and … diversification of the Brazilian agricultural sector in the period 1990 2012. Our hypothesis is that Brazil does not have a …, and taking advantage of Brazil's agricultural land availability and good climate for agriculture.We identify four main …