Many countries claim foreign cultural goods threaten their national identities and engage inprotectionism against foreign cultural goods with various policy interventions. We analyze theeconomics of domestic cultural content protection in terrestrial broadcasting, the mostwidespread policy...

Domestic technical measures such as SPS and TBTs can enhance import demand viainformation disclosure and quality improvement, or hamper foreign export supply via imposingsizeable compliance costs, or both. The traditional gravity equation model estimates the neteffect of these measures on...