government machinery is geared to export promotion especially through direct and indirect subsidies. Surprisingly, these policies … the impact of two such schemes - export financing and rebate/refund schemes - on export performance. Our analysis shows … that, over the long run, the export financing scheme had a negative effect on exports while the rebate/refund scheme …

manufacturing sector in Brazil. In order to identify the impact of Apex's assistance on firms' export propensity this paper relies …Do export promotion agencies (EPAs) impact the probability of non-exporting firms to export? In the last decade many … Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brasil) on firms' export status using a unique firm-level dataset which covers the full …

services providers. The indices are calculated for 40 countries, the 34 OECD members and Brazil, the People’s Republic of China … another country reserves cargo-handling to a monopoly at port. Freight transport agency has the lowest average score among …

on tariff barriers as the only obstacle to international trade and integration. In this paper we use data from Brazil and …, lowering their likelihood to export. We also find that the reallocative impacts of trade come not only from tariff barriers but …

negotiated between the EU and the U.S. on the economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). The BRICS is … BRICS is expected to gain from the TTIP a slight additional increase in the real GDP. Brazil, India, China and South Africa …, while it will be a trade-diverting FTA to Brazil, India, China, South Africa and Japan …

dollar being far more used in Brazil than in other countries, the BRL use for denominating trade has had exceptional growth …

In this paper, we discuss the agricultural trade between Brazil and China. We select a set of key commodities and … institutions are responsible to regulate the agricultural sector in Brazil. Our main findings support the relevance of the … bilateral trade of agricultural products between Brazil and China. Still, a set of products can be classified as missed trade …

-MERCOSUR agreement, and multilateral trade policy changes will all be beneficial for Brazil. The Brazilian government strategy of … roughly three to four times the average for Brazil from any of the policies considerethe United States protects its most … percent in tariffs and export subsidies results in gains to the world more than four times greater than either the FTAA or the …