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 …

: experience and networks. These are particularly relevant for developing countries, where relevant export experience in firms is … prior experience with the export product and destination, experience with importing, as well as using a developed …

In Laos health shocks are more common than most other shocks and more concentrated among the poor. They tend to be more …

feature export share requirements. That is, firms located in these zones are obliged to export more than a certain stated … Organization. This paper exploits the staggered removal of export requirements across products and over time in the special … by the elimination of export requirements. The findings show that entry increased among firms in special economic zones …