| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w29684 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 29684 |
| Two-Sided Search in International Markets | |
| Jonathan Eaton; David Jinkins; James R. Tybout; Daniel Xu | |
| 发表日期 | 2022-01-24 |
| 出版年 | 2022 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We develop a dynamic model of international business-to-business transactions in which sellers and buyers search for each other, with the probability of a match depending on both individual and aggregate search effort. Fit to customs records on U.S. apparel imports, the model captures key cross-sectional and dynamic features of international buyer-seller relationships. We use the model to make several quantitative inferences. First, we calculate the search costs borne by heterogeneous importers and exporters. Second, we provide a structural interpretation for the life cycles of importers and exporters as they endogenously acquire and lose foreign business partners. Third, we pursue counterfactuals that approximate the phaseout of the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (the “China shock”) and the IT revolution. Lower search costs can significantly improve consumer welfare, but at the expense of importer profits. On the other hand, an increase in the population of foreign exporters can congest matching to the extent of dampening or even reversing the gains consumers enjoy from access to extra varieties and more retailers. |
| 主题 | International Economics ; Trade |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w29684 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/587358 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Jonathan Eaton,David Jinkins,James R. Tybout,et al. Two-Sided Search in International Markets. 2022. |
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