This paper shows how a developing country, Lao PDR, imports high glutinous rice prices by exporting its staple food to neighboring countries, Vietnam and Thailand. Lao PDR has extensive export controls on rice, generating a sizable difference between domestic and international prices. Controls...

Michael Schmid, Universität Bamberg, und Karlhans Sauernheimer, Universität Mainz, fragen, was die ökonomische Theorie zu dieser Debatte beitragen kann, und stellen theoretische Ansätze vor, die einen pathologischen Exportboom implizieren. Sauernheimer macht darauf aufmerksam, dass aus der...

This paper shows how a developing country, Lao PDR, imports high glutinous rice prices by exporting its staple food to neighboring countries, Vietnam and Thailand. Lao PDR has extensive export controls on rice, generating a sizable difference between domestic and international prices. Controls...