Does Machine Translation Affect International Trade? Evidence from a Large Digital Platform

Erik Brynjolfsson
Erik Brynjolfsson
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Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142;
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Xiang Hui
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Xiang Hui
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Marketing, Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri 63130;
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Meng Liu
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Meng Liu
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Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142
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Erik Brynjolfsson

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Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142;

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Xiang Hui

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Marketing, Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri 63130;

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Meng Liu

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Published Online:3 Sep 2019https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2019.3388

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Received:April 18, 2019
Accepted:April 18, 2019
Published Online:September 03, 2019

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Erik Brynjolfsson, Xiang Hui, Meng Liu (2019) Does Machine Translation Affect International Trade? Evidence from a Large Digital Platform. Management Science 65(12):5449-5460.

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