Simon Schropp

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare the effect of geographic distance on eBay and total international trade flows and find the effect to be on average 65% smaller on eBay compared to eBay's seller-rating technology.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the impact of distance, a standard proxy for trade costs, on eBay and offline international trade flows, and found the effect of distance to be on average 65 percent smaller on the eBay online platform than offline.

TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive analysis of the economics of dispute settlement institutions is presented, and it is shown that the literatures of trade cooperation and dispute institutions are (and should be) interlinked, and that Dispute Settlements may assume a variety of roles, including that of an information repository and disseminator, an honest broker, an arbitrator and calculator of damages, an active information gatherer or an adjudicator.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed data from PayPal and Kiva to understand how technology is impacting SMEs' ability to access financing, and they found that online business loans have stepped in to fill the SME funding gap left by the 2008 financial crisis.

TL;DR: The Appellate Body Report in Bananas III (Article 21.5; Second Recourse) does not seem to be a case for the Guinness Book as mentioned in this paper, and the AB upheld most of the Panel's findings, and the EC lost big.