Cultural institutes: Networks and determinants

Cultural institutes: Networks and determinants

This paper documents the spread of national cultural institutes (CI's). We first build a data set of 32 cultural institutes that have foreign offices abroad. Using multiple primary sources, we compile data of the foreign locations of each CI from 1985 to the present. We next use network analysi...

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Published in:World economy Vol. 46; no. 4; pp. 1119 - 1143
Main Authors: Yamarik, Steven, Mileva, Mariya
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01-04-2023
Subjects:
British Council
Confucius Institute
cultural institutes
Economic analysis
Foreign offices
Goethe‐Institut
Gravity
gravity model
Institutes
Legal system
Network analysis
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Summary:This paper documents the spread of national cultural institutes (CI's). We first build a data set of 32 cultural institutes that have foreign offices abroad. Using multiple primary sources, we compile data of the foreign locations of each CI from 1985 to the present. We next use network analysis to visualise and describe connections within the CI network. We then use a gravity model to estimate the formation of one or more CI's in a bilateral country pair. We find that factors such as population, real GDP per capita, distance, a former coloniser‐colony link, a common legal system, free trading agreement and a reciprocal relationship are significant factors in the formation of a CI foreign location.
Bibliography:We would like to thank participants of the 2018 HenU/INFER Workshop on Applied Macroeconomics at Henan University, China; 2018 Slovak Economic Association Meetings in Bratislava, Slovakia; 2019 Enterprise and Competitive Environment Conference in Brno, Czech Republic; 2020 Spring Workshop at the University of Economics in Bratislava.
ISSN:0378-5920
1467-9701
DOI:10.1111/twec.13397