There Goes Gravity : How eBay Reduces Trade Costs

This paper compares the impact of distance, a standard proxy for trade costs, on eBay and offline international trade flows. It considers the same set of 62 countries and the same basket of goods for both types of transactions, and finds the effect...

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Main Authors:	Lendle, Andreas, Schropp, Simon, Olarreaga, Marcelo, Vézina, Pierre-Louis
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:	ACCESS TO THE INTERNET AGGREGATE TRADE AGGREGATE TRADE FLOWS ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION AUCTION AUCTIONS AVERAGE TARIFFS AVERAGE TRADE B2C BACK UP BASKET OF GOODS BILATERAL IMPORTS BILATERAL TRADE BILATERAL TRADE DATA BUSINESSES BUYER BUYERS CHANGES IN TRADE COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CONSUMER ELECTRONICS CONSUMER GOODS CONSUMERS CROSS-BORDER TRANSACTIONS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DIRECT SALES E-COMMERCE ECONOMIC RESEARCH ELASTICITY ELASTICITY OF SUBSTITUTION ELASTICITY OF TRADE EMAILS ESP EXPORTERS EXPORTING COUNTRIES EXPORTING COUNTRY EXPORTS FAXES FREE TRADE FREE TRADE AGREEMENT FREIGHT GDP GINI COEFFICIENT GLOBAL MARKETS GLOBAL TRADE GLOBALIZATION GRAVITY EQUATION GRAVITY ESTIMATES GRAVITY FRAMEWORK GRAVITY MODEL GRAVITY MODELS HOME PHONES IMAGE IMPACT OF TRADE IMPORT VALUE IMPORTING COUNTRY INCOME INCOME INEQUALITY INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS INSTITUTION INTERNATIONAL BANK INTERNATIONAL TRADE IP LEGAL SYSTEM LEGAL SYSTEMS MARGINAL EFFECTS MARKET FAILURES MARKET STRUCTURE NETWORKS OCEAN TRANSPORT ONLINE PRODUCTS ONLINE TRANSACTIONS OPEN ACCESS PANEL REPORTS PC PHONE POLICY RESEARCH PRODUCT CATEGORIES PRODUCT CATEGORY PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION PRODUCT INFORMATION PROTECTIONIST PRESSURES REAL INCOME REGIONALIZATION RESULT SEARCH RESULTS SHIPMENTS SHIPPING SHIPPING COSTS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TRADE AGREEMENT TRADE AGREEMENTS TRADE BALANCE TRADE COSTS TRADE DATA TRADE FLOWS TRADE MODELS TRADE MORE TRADE PATTERNS TRADE POLICY USERS USES VIDEO WAGES WEB WELFARE GAINS WORLD MARKETS WORLD TRADE WTO
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/10/16878203/goes-gravity-ebay-reduces-trade-costs http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12107

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/10/16878203/goes-gravity-ebay-reduces-trade-costs
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12107

There Goes Gravity : How eBay Reduces Trade Costs

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