Perfil das Exportações, Produtividade e Tamanho das Firmas no Brasil

Victor Gomes and Roberto Ellery

No 1087, Discussion Papers from Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada - IPEA

Abstract: 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.

Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2005-04
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