neighboring countries, Vietnam and Thailand. Lao PDR has extensive export controls on rice, generating a sizable difference … that export their staple food …

determinants of cohort survival among exporters. The authors find that export flows in value terms are dominated by the intensive … margin, with large firms continuing to supply the same products to the same markets. On the extensive margin, new export … of export promotion activity should be on helping existing exporters find and stay in new markets …

This paper documents an unusual and possibly significant phenomenon: The export of skills embodied in goods, services …

individually larger, with export value extremely concentrated in a few firms. Firm churning rates are disproportionately low and … survival rates of entrants are high. These findings reflect exceptionally high entry costs of export, which are the result of … anti-export bias and import substitution policies that sought unsuccessfully to develop the local industry. The paper shows …

This study examines whether foreign direct investment inflows facilitate upgrading of export quality in host countries … affiliates in the upstream (input-supplying) industries. This relationship is present irrespective of export destination or …