Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Torres Mazzi, Caio
Author-Email: torres@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT
Title: Brazilian exporters and the rise of Global Value Chains:
	 an empirical assessment
Abstract: This paper studies how production fragmentation has affected the 
	 performance of Brazilian exporters in the manufacturing sector. We begin 
	 by combining existing classifications of internationally traded products 
	 to identify four different categories of goods, of which one 
	 ('customised intermediates') we associate more closely with fragmented 
	 trade. We then proceed to compare the productivity premium of 
	 international traders for these different categories. Our results 
	 confirm exporting customised intermediates is associated with a superior 
	 performance in comparison to other intermediates; but also highlights a 
	 strong influence of sector specificities. We also investigate the 
	 existence of learning-by-exporting effects and find no evidence for 
	 firms that produce customised intermediates exclusively. However, 
	 exports of customised products in general - i.e. both final and 
	 intermediate goods - are associated with learning. This result suggests 
	 trade in customised intermediates might be associated with learning when 
	 firms manage to upgrade their products to other customised goods.
Classification-JEL: F14, F12, O33, O31
Keywords: exports, productivity, fragmentation, Global Value Chains
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 20190423
Number: 2019-014
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2019/wp2019-014.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2019014