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Perfil das Exportações, Produtividade e Tamanho das Firmas no Brasil

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  • Victor Gomes
  • Roberto Ellery Jr

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Using data at firm level this paper studies the behavior of Brazilian firms that exportsa share of its production. The main findings are: only a small fraction of firms sell toforeign countries, most exporting firms sell to few markets, variations in Brazilianexports across destinations represents differences in number of Brazilian firms sellingthere much more than the amount that each one sells, exporting firms are larger andmore productive than non-exporting firms. About 40% of the exporting firms sellonly to the Mercosul, those firms are smaller and less productive than the firms thatexports to others countries.

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  • Victor Gomes & Roberto Ellery Jr, 2005. "Perfil das Exportações, Produtividade e Tamanho das Firmas no Brasil," Discussion Papers 1087, Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada - IPEA.
    • Handle: RePEc:ipe:ipetds:1087
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    1. Armando Castelar Pinheiro & Regis Bonelli, 2015. "Comparative Advantage or Economic Policy? Stylized Facts and Reflections on Brazil’s insertion in the world economy – 1994-2005," Discussion Papers 0180, Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada - IPEA.
    2. Armando Castelar Pinheiro & Regis Bonelli, 2007. "Comparative Advantage or Economic Policy? Stylized Facts and Reflections on Brazil´s Insertion in the World Economy - 1994 - 2005," Discussion Papers 1275, Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada - IPEA.
    3. Arpita Chatterjee & Rafael Dix-Carneiro & Jade Vichyanond, 2013. "Multi-product Firms and Exchange Rate Fluctuations," American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Association, vol. 5(2), pages 77-110, May.
    4. Tabrizy, Saleh S. & Trofimenko, Natalia, 2010. "Scope for export-led growth in a large emerging economy: Is India learning by exporting?," Kiel Working Papers 1633, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel).
    5. Araújo, Bruno César & Paz, Lourenço S., 2014. "The effects of exporting on wages: An evaluation using the 1999 Brazilian exchange rate devaluation," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 111(C), pages 1-16.

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