Facilitating Inclusive Global Trade: Evidence from a Field Experiment
通过实地实验发现，大型电商平台整合行政和物流服务能显著增加小卖家的出口，且增长来自新卖家和新市场，对距离更远国家和差异化产品效果更明显，说明降低出口进入成本是促进包容性贸易的关键。
How can we make global trade inclusive for smaller sellers and firms? I present causal evidence that a major e-commerce platform increases on-site exports from small sellers through integrating an existing administrative and logistic service. The export increase comes exclusively from small sellers and exclusively along the extensive margin—that is, from new sellers or new destinations. Furthermore, the export increase is larger for more distant countries and differentiated products. I provide strong evidence that the distribution of export increase is driven by a reduction in export entry cost. I discuss the importance of reducing export entry cost for facilitating inclusive global trade. This paper was accepted by Chris Forman, information systems.