Product-based cultural change: Is the village global?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Maystre, Nicolas; Olivier, Jacques; Thoenig, Mathias; Verdier, Thierry
• 署名单位: Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris; University of Lausanne; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Institut Polytechnique de Paris; Ecole des Ponts ParisTech; Paris School of Economics
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-1996
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2013.10.005
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 212-230
• 关键词: culture; TRADE; persistence; homogenization

摘要

We provide a model of product-based cultural change where trade integration leads to cultural convergence. A standard trade model of Dixit-Stiglitz monopolistic competition is coupled with a micro-founded model of cultural dynamics. We show that access to varieties that are attached to a global cultural type changes the incentives of parents to socialize their children and transmit their type. The resulting increase in agents of the global cultural type leads to a magnification of the initial shock. A striking feature of the model is that even temporary shocks to openness may have permanent effects through the changing distribution of preferences in the economy. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.