Cultural diversity and intellectual property protection

本研究探讨文化产品国际贸易时的最佳贸易与产业政策。在理论上，我们强调了消费者跨期消费永恒性的动态效应的重要性，并建立了一个简单易行的垄断竞争一般均衡模型。我们研究了均衡的性质，并推导出对应于商品和产业数量不足或过剩的均衡的政策的确切形式，还显示了政府干预是合理的条件。在实证方面，我们探讨了知识产权的潜力，这是必不可少的文化产品，并审查其战略方面时，政府可能会培育民族品牌附加到她的贸易文化产品。鉴于这方面的研究还不多，本文将目光转向设计权商品产业，对其市场结构进行研究，并揭示出一些潜在的问题。

This research studies optimal trade and industrial policies when cultural goods are traded internationally. Theoretically, we focus on the importance of the dynamic effect of consumers' inter-temporal consumption eternality and build a tractable general equilibrium model with monopolistic competition. We study the properties of the equilibria and derive the exact forms of policies corresponding to the equilibrium with either insufficient or excess number of goods and industries, and also show the conditions when the government interventions are justified. Empirically, we explore the potential of the intellectual property (right), which is essential to the cultural goods, and review its strategic aspects when the government may foster the national brand attached to her tradable cultural goods. Since only a quite few studies are done in this view, we shed right on the design-right goods industry and study its market structure and reveal some latent issues.