Trading across Borders in Online Auctions

Elena Krasnokutskaya (), Christian Terwiesch and Lucia Tiererova

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2018, vol. 10, issue 4, 27-66

Abstract: We invoke the insights from the auction literature to study trade in services using data from an online market for programming support. We find that the observed clustering of trade between countries can be rationalized through a model featuring endogenous sorting of sellers who are heterogeneous in both quality and costs across projects offered by buyers who differ in outside option and willingness to pay for quality. To accommodate the possibility of such an outcome we extend a single-auction entry model to a setting where sellers choose among multiple projects. This feature plays an important role in explaining the data and understanding the effects of various trade policies.

JEL-codes: D44 F14 L15 L86 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
Note: DOI: 10.1257/mic.20160309
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