Structural Change in the Automotive Industry and Its Regional Impacts: The Case of Brazil

Latin American Business Review. Vol. 7, Numbers 3/4, pp. 97-119, 2007

29 Pages Posted: 16 Mar 2014

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Edmund Amann

The University of Manchester - Centre for Latin American Cultural Studies

Eduardo A. Haddad

University of Sao Paulo (USP) - Department of Economics; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Regional Economics, Application Labratory, REAL

Fernando Salgueiro Perobelli

Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

Joaquim Guilhoto

University of Sao Paulo; Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) - Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry (STI)

Date Written: 2007

Abstract

From the late 1980s onward, the Brazilian automotive industry has undergone significant change as it has embraced trade liberalization and growing inward FDI. Using an inter-regional input-output model, this paper analyses the evolution of the industry from a spatial perspective. It is shown that new investment has resulted in a more dispersed locational framework for the industry. However, not all the benefits of new investment are garnered by the recipient regions. The paper poses a number of policy questions which center on the issue of inter-regional dependence

Keywords: Regional economy, Industry

JEL Classification: L8

Suggested Citation

Amann, Edmund and Haddad, Eduardo A. and Perobelli, Fernando Salgueiro and Guilhoto, Joaquim José Martins and Guilhoto, Joaquim José Martins, Structural Change in the Automotive Industry and Its Regional Impacts: The Case of Brazil (2007). Latin American Business Review. Vol. 7, Numbers 3/4, pp. 97-119, 2007, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2409200

Edmund Amann

The University of Manchester - Centre for Latin American Cultural Studies ( email )

United Kingdom

Eduardo A. Haddad

University of Sao Paulo (USP) - Department of Economics ( email )

Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto 908
Sao Paulo, SP 05508-900
Brazil

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Regional Economics, Application Labratory, REAL ( email )

United States

Fernando Salgueiro Perobelli

Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora ( email )

Brazil

Joaquim José Martins Guilhoto (Contact Author)

Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) - Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry (STI) ( email )

Paris
France

University of Sao Paulo ( email )

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Brazil
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