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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Bibliographic Details
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:
B2C
ESP
GDP
IP
PC
WEB
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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