International Symposium on Microeconometric Analysis on International Trade and Supply Chains: Evidence from Brazil and Chile
International Symposium on Microeconometric Analysis on International Trade and Supply Chains: Evidence from Brazil and Chile
International Symposium on Microeconometric Analysis on International Trade and Supply Chains: Evidence from Brazil and Chile
Jointly supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)#23K01401 / Kobe University RIEB Workshop on Economic and Political Research on Latin America / Kenematsu Seminar
| Date & Time | Tuesday, October 6, 2026, 15:15-17:00 |
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| Place | Meeting Room at RIEB, Kobe University (Annex, 2nd Floor) |
| Intended Audience | Faculty, Graduate Students, and People with Equivalent Knowledge |
| Langage | English |
| Registration | Registration is required. Registration Form (Due: Oct 1) |
15:15 - 16:05
- Topic
- Does Export Destination Matter for Skill Upgrading?
- Speaker
- Lourenço PAZ (Hankamer School of Business, Baylor University [U.S.A.])
- Abstract
- This study separates the effect of breaking into a large new export market from the effect of that market being rich, comparing Brazilian firms entering a high-income destination with firms making an equally new and equally major entry elsewhere. High-income entrants export and employ substantially more five years on, but grow through retention rather than hiring, and their workforces do not upgrade on any of three measures of skill. Pay for given worker quality rises instead, locating the wage gains this literature documents in rents rather than skill. Rich destinations pay a unit-value premium for the same good, but it is far too small to account for a revenue response that is almost entirely quantity.
16:10 - 17:00
- Topic
- Effects of Joining Multinational Supply Chains on Domestic Firms: New Evidence from Chilean Longitudinal Firm Survey
- Speaker
- Yoshimichi MURAKAMI (RIEB, Kobe University)
- Abstract
- Previous studies have found that backward linkages between domestic firms and multinational firms are the major source of the positive spillover effects of foreign direct investment in emerging countries. However, they have largely relied on industry-level variations in the presence of foreign-owned firms in downstream sectors, rather than direct buyer-supplier linkage. Therefore, using a novel dataset from four waves of Longitudinal Survey of Firms (Encuesta Longitudinal de Empresas), this study analyzed the effects of joining multinational supply chains on domestic firms’ productivity and export status across different industrial sectors including primary, manufacturing and service sectors in Chile from 2015 to 2022. To address potential endogeneity of becoming a foreign supplier, this study applied inverse probability weighting based on propensity score estimation to an event study specification. The results show that joining multinational supply chains had immediate positive effects on domestic firms’ export share and the effects were particularly long-lasting for domestic firms in primary and manufacturing sectors. By contrast, the effects on total factor productivity and labor productivity were limited; the positive effects took five to seven years for fully materialize in domestic firms in service sectors.