Search and Information Frictions on Global E-Commerce Platforms: Evidence from Aliexpress
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- Jie Bai & Maggie Chen & Jin Liu & Daniel Yi Xu, 2020. "Search and Information Frictions on Global E-Commerce Platforms: Evidence from AliExpress," NBER Working Papers 28100, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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Keywords
e-commerce; asymmetric information; search frictions; firm dynamics;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
- L15 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Information and Product Quality
- L86 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Information and Internet Services; Computer Software
- F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2018-10-22 (Experimental Economics)
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