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 …

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