id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_hetfk6bjwzamtmmm6ni64lvzwq Gianpiero Meloni American beauty: trade flows and export costs of US movies 2018 23 .pdf application/pdf 9694 2834 92 Copyright industries face global fixed export costs, in terms of cultural and geographic distance observation of imported movies and their revenues; and reliable estimations for country clusters. export costs: how much countries characteristics and product heterogeneity impact on the extensive (numbers of products exported) and intensive We explore this issue with a microeconomic approach by estimating a hedonic model of US movies revenues in foreign markets. preliminary data analysis and estimation results give evidence of the impact of movies idiosyncratic characteristics on both extensive and intensive movies exhibited and their revenues are simultaneously observed can produce a bias problem in a regression for the two variables at the country In the first step, we estimate a probit model (selection equation) for the probability that a film is exhibited in a given country. Figure 2 expands this analysis of intensive and extensive margins adjustments dividing US movies by genres (action, comedy, drama and thriller). ./cache/work_hetfk6bjwzamtmmm6ni64lvzwq.pdf ./txt/work_hetfk6bjwzamtmmm6ni64lvzwq.txt