International trade and cultural diversity with preference selection

Bala, Venkatesh; Long, Ngo Van

doi:10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2004.09.001

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“…A dynamic analysis of culture is also presented in Bala and Van Long (2005). But their view of culture is different as they look at individual preferences on rival goods rather than cultural identity as a group externality.…”

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Globalization and the dynamics of cultural identity

Olivier

Thoenig

Verdier

2008

Journal of International Economics

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This paper presents a simple model where micro-founded dynamics of cultural identity are endogenous and interact with an international trade equilibrium. This process generates a strong home bias under autarky. We then show that goods market integration causes a phenomenon of cultural divergence, whereby the distributions of cultures become more dissimilar across countries and one of the cultures that existed under autarky ultimately disappears. By way of contrast, we show that social integration causes cultural convergence and can counterbalance the effects of goods market integration

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Globalization and the dynamics of cultural identity

Olivier

Thoenig

Verdier

2008

Journal of International Economics

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“…Francois and van Ypersele (2002) show that losses from trade can occur in a model where the cultural good is characterized by fixed costs and heterogenous valuations. Bala and Van Long (2005) model the evolution of preferences using replicator dynamics and show that a large country's preferences can extinguish the preferences of its smaller trading partner.…”

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Exposure to foreign media and changes in cultural traits: Evidence from naming patterns in France

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Mayer

2010

Journal of International Economics

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a b s t r a c t JEL classification: F15 D19 Z10Free trade in audio-visual services has faced opposition on the grounds that foreign media undermine domestic culture, and ultimately, global diversity. Using a long panel of French birth registries, we assess the media-culture link using name frequencies as a measure of tastes. Controlling for the number of people who currently have a name and unobserved name effects, our regressions show that media influences choices via selective imitation. Parents are much more likely to adopt media names that they associate with youth. Using estimated parameters, we simulate our model of name choice to reveal that, absent foreign media, fewer than 5% of French babies would have been named differently. Our simulations also suggest a positive effect of foreign media on the welfare of parents.

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“…86 For an example of this argument, see Hahn 2006, at 520-521. See also Bala and Van Long 2005;and Rauch and Trindade 2009. 87 Dunkley 2001, at 184-185.…”

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Cultural Diversity, Copyright, and International Trade

Macmillan

2014

Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture

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This chapter argues that the international copyright system, which is now embedded in the international trading system as a consequence of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs Agreement), has operated at least in relation to some types of copyright-protected "cultural goods and services" (as defined in the 2005 UNESCO Convention on Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions) as a fetter on cultural diversity and self-determination. This effect has been produced by certain aspects of copyright law itself allied with aspects of behaviour in the global market for "cultural goods and services". The chapter analyses the extent to which these fettering effects have been exacerbated by other WTO agreements. It then considers whether or not the WTO system can be regarded as being in conflict with the emerging international regime for the protection of cultural diversity as embodied in the 2005 UNESCO Convention.JEL Codes: F10, F19, F53, F59, K33, O34, Z11, Z19

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International trade and cultural diversity with preference selection

Cited by 70 publications

References 15 publications

Globalization and the dynamics of cultural identity

Globalization and the dynamics of cultural identity

Exposure to foreign media and changes in cultural traits: Evidence from naming patterns in France

Cultural Diversity, Copyright, and International Trade

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