TY - RPRT U1 - Arbeitspapier A1 - Mutz, Christine T1 - Simultaneous Estimation of Income and Price Elasticities of Export Demand, Scale Economies an Total Factor Productivity Growth for Brazil N2 - This paper focuses on a model in which 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. The question arises whether export demand elasticities are low or high. For answering this question, export demand elasticities for the case of Brazil are estimated using a growth 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. Y1 - 2005 N1 - Maastricht: Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology, 2005 (MERIT-Infonomics Research Memorandum series; 2005-004) ER -