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Globalization and the rise of action movies in hollywood

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  • Tin Cheuk Leung

    (Wake Forest University)

  • Shi Qi

    (William and Mary)

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This paper shows that Globalization contributes significantly to the rise of Action movies in Hollywood. Incorporating both the intensive and extensive margins in trade, this paper develops a structural model to allow movie-quality production heterogeneity across genres and countries. The paper finds that Hollywood studios respond to export-market expansion by tailoring their products to international consumers’ preferences. As a result, Hollywood increasingly focuses on a few blockbusters, overwhelmingly in the Action genre. The movie industry becomes significantly more concentrated both domestically and abroad. Furthermore, a disproportionate increase in Action movies raises consumer welfare in some countries at other regions’ expense.

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  • Tin Cheuk Leung & Shi Qi, 2023. "Globalization and the rise of action movies in hollywood," Journal of Cultural Economics, Springer;The Association for Cultural Economics International, vol. 47(1), pages 31-69, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:jculte:v:47:y:2023:i:1:d:10.1007_s10824-021-09438-z
    DOI: 10.1007/s10824-021-09438-z
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