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 …

This paper explores the link between exports and total factor productivity in Brazilian manufacturing firms over the … significantly, but with stagnant aggregate growth in total factor productivity. The paper first estimates firm-level total factor … productivity under alternative assumptions (exogenous and endogenous law of motion for productivity) following a GMM procedure. In …

soybean seeds in Brazil, which had heterogeneous effects on agricultural productivity across areas with different soil and … work, we present a simple model where the effect of agricultural productivity on industrial development depends on the …

soybean seeds in Brazil, which had heterogeneous effects on agricultural productivity across areas with different soil and … work, we present a simple model where the effect of agricultural productivity on industrial development depends on the …

This paper studies the effects of trade liberalization on the evolution of firm productivity. The productivity of each … nominal tariffs on firms' productivity levels is identified. After controlling for the endogeneity of nominal tariffs, the … estimated coefficient for tariffs in the productivity equation turns out to be negative. Second, a measure of tariffs on inputs …

in the food sector, emphasizing the need to accomplish higher investments in R&D to increase the productivity of the …