The effects of trade liberalization on productivity growth in Brazil: competition or technology?

This paper examines the effects of trade liberalization on productivity growth in Brazil. In contrast with the previous literature, we examine whether this relationship is driven by product or input market effects, by including both output and input tariffs in firm-level productivity regressions and...

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Main Authors: Marcos B. Lisboa, Naercio A. Menezes Filho, Adriana Schor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fundação Getúlio Vargas 2010-09-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Economia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-71402010000300004