Eaton, Jonathan; Jinkins, David; Tybout, James R.; Xu, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
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 …-seller relationships. We use the model to make several quantitative inferences. First, we calculate the search costs borne by heterogeneous …