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Title: Like Me, Buy Me: The Effect of Soft Power on Exports

Author(s): Andrew K Rose

Publication Date: July 2015

Keyword(s): BBC, data, empirical, global, gravity, influence, model, negative, net, panel, positive and world

Programme Area(s): International Macroeconomics and Finance and International Trade and Regional Economics

Abstract: In this paper I quantify a gain that a country receives when its global influence is considered to be admirable by others. I use a standard gravity model of bilateral exports, a panel of data from 2006 through 2013, and an annual survey conducted for the BBC by GlobeScan which asks people in up to 46 countries about whether each of up to 17 countries were perceived to have ?a mainly positive or negative influence in the world.? Holding other things constant, a country?s exports are higher if it is perceived by the importer to be exerting more positive global influence. This effect is statistically and economically significant; a one percent net increase in perceived positive influence raises exports by around .8 percent. Succinctly, countries receive a commercial return on their soft power.

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Rose, A. 2015. 'Like Me, Buy Me: The Effect of Soft Power on Exports'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=10713