Trading across Borders in Online Auctions

Elena Krasnokutskaya ()

No 1537, 2016 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics

Abstract: We invoke the insights from the auction literature to study international 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 heterogeneous in quality and costs across projects offered by buyers who differ in willingness to pay for quality and outside options. We extend a single auction entry model to a setting where sellers choose among multiple projects available for bid. This plays an important role in explaining the data and understanding the effects of various trade policies.

Date: 2016
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