The Geography of Trade in Online Transactions: Evidence from eBay and MercadoLibre

By Ali Hortaçsu, F. A. Martínez-Jerez, Jason Douglas. 2009

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research, Marketing

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Cultural Differences and Geography as Determinants of Online Prosocial Lending (2014, methodology): “In this regard, we make assumptions similar to those implicit in Hortacsu et al.’s (2009) work, which inspires our estimation approach.”
Sales Taxes and Internet Commerce (2014, background): “The positive e¤ect is consistent with the results in Hortacsu et al. (2009) and in our Table 5, but perhaps more surprising given that we are focusing only on interested buyers.”
Home Bias in Online Investments: An Empirical Study of an Online Crowdfunding Market (2016, unknown): “Unlike online product markets where geography is still important due to the potential of contract enforcement and the delivery of products (c.f. Hortacsu et al., 2009) , the borrower's physical location is largely irrelevant in the investment context, especially given the features of Prosper.com.”
Crowdfunding: Geography, Social Networks, and the Timing of Investment Decisions (2015, unknown): “The persistence of such “social frictions” but not other distancerelated frictions is consistent with prior research on online activity that shows many but not all distance-related frictions are reduced in the online setting (Blum and Goldfarb 2006, Hortacsu, Martinez-Jerez, and Douglas 2009).”
Is the crowd sensitive to distance?—how investment decisions differ by investor type (2017, unknown): “Another example is provided by Hortacsu et al. (2009), who find that the likelihood of a purchase on ebay is inversely related to distance.”
What Separates Us? Sources of Resistance to Globalization (2013, unknown): “They find much larger distance effects for eBay transactions than Hortaçsu et al. (2009), −0.”
The Alibaba effect: Spatial consumption inequality and the welfare gains from e-commerce (2018, unknown): “(Hortaçsu et al., 2009), we find that the distance elasticity of online shipping cost to be about half the magnitude of that for offline shipping.”
Is the International Border Effect Larger than the Domestic Border Effect? Evidence from U.S. Trade (2009, unknown): “2 The estimation framework We follow McCallum (1995) and other authors by hypothesizing that trade costs tij are a loglinear function of geographic distance, distij, and a border dummy, INTERNATIONALij, which takes on the value 1 whenever regions i and j are located in different countries.”
Mitigating Incentive Conflicts in Inter-Firm Relationships: Evidence from Long-Term Supply Contracts (2013, background): “…mileage between the buyer and supplier using plant locations specified in the contract.7 Noordewier et al. (1990), Cannon and Homburg (2001), and Hortacsu et al. (2009) find that proximity to supply partners can reduce information asymmetry due to lower monitoring costs and ease in…”
Reward-based crowdfunding of entrepreneurial projects: the effect of local altruism and localized social capital on proponents’ success (2017, unknown): “2005), including online transactions, which are more likely to occur between buyers and sellers in the same geographical area (Hortaçsu et al. 2009).”