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Simultaneous estimation of income and price elasticities of export demand, scale economies and total factor productivity growth for Brazil

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Christine Mutz
Thomas Ziesemer

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This article focuses on a growth model in which (unlike other models) low (high) export demand elasticities and the fact that developing countries are importers of capital goods help explaining the slow (high) growth of these countries in the transition and in the steady state. The question arises whether export demand elasticities are low or high. For answering this question, export demand elasticities for the case of Brazil are obtained by estimation of the model. As a by-product of estimating the model, we obtain estimates for total-factor productivity growth and for scale economies. Based on the results from estimation we calculate steady-state growth rates, engine and handmaiden effects of growth as well as dynamic steady-state gains from trade. The model and the results are discussed in regard to several strands of literature.

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Article provided by Taylor and Francis Journals in its journal Applied Economics.

Volume (Year): 40 (2008)
Issue (Month): 22 ()
Pages: 2921-2937
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  1. Ziesemer, Thomas, 2009. "The Impact of the Credit Crisis on Poor Developing Countries: Growth, worker remittances, accumulation and migration," UNU-MERIT Working Paper Series 026, United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and social Research and training centre on Innovation and Technology. [Downloadable!]
  2. Ziesemer, Thomas, 2009. "Collinearity in growth regressions: The example of worker remittances," UNU-MERIT Working Paper Series 020, United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and social Research and training centre on Innovation and Technology. [Downloadable!]
  3. Ziesemer, Thomas, 2008. "Growth with Endogenous Migration Hump and the Multiple, Dynamically Interacting Effects of Aid in Poor Developing Countries," UNU-MERIT Working Paper Series 057, United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and social Research and training centre on Innovation and Technology. [Downloadable!]
  4. Ziesemer, Thomas, 2008. "Worker remittances, migration, accumulation and growth in poor developing countries," UNU-MERIT Working Paper Series 063, United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and social Research and training centre on Innovation and Technology. [Downloadable!]
  5. Habiyaremye, Alexis & Ziesemer, Thomas, 2008. "Export Demand Elasticities as Determinants of Growth: Estimates for Mauritius," UNU-MERIT Working Paper Series 072, United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and social Research and training centre on Innovation and Technology. [Downloadable!]
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