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N° 2007-20
November 2007 |
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| Bilateral Trade of Cultural Goods |
Anne-Célia Disdier
Silvio H.T. Tai
Lionel Fontagné
Thierry Mayer |
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International trade flows of cultural goods have grown very rapidly over the last decades
and their liberalization will be one of the important issues of future multilateral trade negotiations.
Despite these stakes, cultural flows have, to date, not been much studied by trade
economists.
In this paper, we focus on bilateral trade in cultural goods, such as books, recorded media,
visual arts, audio visual media, and we investigate its determinants. Furthermore, we use
trade in cultural goods as a proxy for countries’ cultural proximity and study if countries
with proximate cultural tastes tend to have more intense bilateral exchanges.
Our estimations show a positive and significant influence of cultural flows on overall trade,
suggesting that regulations fostering domestic cultural creation might have impacts going
beyond what is generally expected. |
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| Cultural tastes; international trade; gravity |
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