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Market formation as transitive closure: The evolving pattern of trade in music

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2015

JESSE C. SHORE
JESSE C. SHORE*
Affiliation:
Information Systems Department, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (e-mail: jccs@bu.edu)
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Where do new markets come from? I construct a network model in which national markets are nodes and flows of recorded music between them are links and conduct a longitudinal analysis of the global pattern of trade in the period 1976–2010. I hypothesize that new export markets are developed through a process of transitive closure in the network of international trade. When two countries' markets experience the same social influences, it brings them close enough together for new homophilous ties to be formed. The implication is that consumption of foreign products helps, not hurts, home-market producers develop overseas markets, but only in those countries that have a history of consuming the same foreign products that were consumed in the home market. Selling in a market changes what is valued in that market, and new market formation is a consequence of having social influences in common.

Keywords

market developmentinternational tradeinformation goodssocial influencehomophilynetwork evolutionmusic industry

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Research Article
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Network Science , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , June 2016, pp. 164 - 187
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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