International trade is subject to information incompleteness. Firms must therefore engage in a costly search process to … find business partners. Online platforms can reduce these search costs and thereby favor firms exports. We examine whether … informational online platform that, by the end of 2018, connected more than 45,000 firms from 140 countries. In particular, we …

How can policymakers promote women-led exporting firms? In this paper, we study the role of online business platforms … important role in making trade more gender equal. To assess this hypothesis, we combine information on firms' participation in … women entrepreneurs than for men-managed firms in otherwise identical products and destinations. Given existing evidence on …