A Eficiência da indústria petroquímica: um estudo de caso

Abstract

The petrochemical industry has hydrocarbons derived from petroleum and natural gas as its main raw material sources. However, the constituent chains of each segment of activity have distinct characteristics often stemming from the need to produce ever more efficient. The aim of this work is to verify some particularities of inputs used in the production of vinyl monochloride Braskem SA Thus, from the analysis of two distinct econometric modeling, containing inputs with greater specificity and integrated into the company, and the other with assets with low specificity and produced extra firm, aims to validate the hypothesis that the more specific the assets are greater the incentives for integrating them into the production process due to the need to make them technically more efficient. Thus, from the use of a functional Cobb Douglas, it was found that the active integrated into firm show a better fit, and, when using a test constraint coefficients in the regression model, it was noted that modeling integrated with active displays increasing returns to scale, which means that such assets appear to be more efficient from the standpoint of production that assets that present constant returns to scale.