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April 23, 2019
HOW LIBRARY SERVICES HAVE ADAPTED TO NEW CHALLENGES?
By Anna Villarroya and Victoria Ateca-Amestoy Which transformations have libraries undergone in recent years? In this paper we claim that, due to new societal...
April 9, 2019
ACCOUNTING FOR HERITAGE ASSETS
By Lucia Biondi Cultural heritage is one of the main features making Italy known worldwide. This contribution redresses the neglect of accounting in the...
March 26, 2019
CREATIVITY AND THE CITY: TESTING THE ATTENUATION OF AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES FOR THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
By Eva Coll-Martinez Creative service industries (CSI)’s agglomeration rapidly decays with distance. This fact suggests that for CSI higher expected returns in terms of...
March 12, 2019
MEASURING EMOTION THROUGH QUALITY IN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS
By Mafalda Gómez-Vega and Luis César Herrero-Prieto Repertoire programming decisions taken by symphony orchestras usually pursue a mixture of aims that embrace both quality...
February 26, 2019
CULTURAL DIVERSITY OF THE FILM INDUSTRY IN THE EU
By Georgios Alaveras, Estrella Gomez-Herrera and Bertin Martens This paper explores new data sources on multilateral trade in films among EU countries and with...
February 12, 2019
USING ART TO FOSTER SUSTAINABILITY THINKING IN MANAGEMENT EDUCATION
By Ingrid Molderez and Kim Ceulemans Will our future business managers be able to tackle sustainability challenges? Can art contribute to acquiring sustainability competencies...
January 29, 2019
DATA-DRIVEN CULTURE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE CREATIVITY
By Christian Peukert Digitization has made a large impact on the cultural industries in the past 20 years. With a new wave of technologies...
January 15, 2019
CULTURAL PROXIMITY MATTERS IN TIMES OF CRISIS
By Maria Masood Dechevrens and Céline Carrère While the positive effect of sharing common cultural traits on bilateral trade flows has been abundantly confirmed...
January 1, 2019
EconomistsTalkArt.org wishes you happy holidays and a great new year 2019!
By The Editorial Team The Editorial Team of EconomistsTalkArt.org wishes you a happy start into the New Year! The blog started as an initiative...
January 1, 2019
IS THERE A ROLE FOR THE ARTIST IN THE FORMATION OF VALUE?
By Francesco Angelini and Massimiliano Castellani The art market literature is still lacking a detailed analysis of the artist’s role in the formation process...
December 18, 2018
MACHINE LEARNING TO UNCOVER DIFFERENCES IN WILLINGNESS-TO-PAY FOR THEATRE TICKETS
By Alina Ozhegova and Evgeniy M. Ozhegov Estimation of willingness-to-pay (WTP) is widely spread approach in economics and marketing for problems of optimal pricing...
December 4, 2018
CONSUMER AND EXPERT REVIEWS EFFECTS ON THE LENGTH OF TIME A FILM IS KEPT ON SCREENS
By Thaís Luiza Donega e Souza, Marislei Nishijima and Ana Cláudia Polato e Fava We evaluate the effect of critical reviews by consumers and experts...
November 20, 2018
DO THEATERS MAXIMIZE ATTENDANCE OR REVENUE?
By Andrea Baldin and Trine Bille Most performing arts organizations are characterized by a complex array of objectives than merely the maximization of revenue. ...
November 6, 2018
TECHNOLOGICAL COMPETITION IN THE E-BOOK READERS’ MARKET
By Elisa Salvador and Pierre-Jean Benghozi The e-book revolution impacted all the phases of the traditional value chain of the book publishing sector, characterized...
October 23, 2018
RELIGION AND CULTURAL PARTICIPATION: WHAT THE EVIDENCE SHOWS
By Juan D. Montoro-Pons and Manuel Cuadrado-García Is there any link between religiousness and participation in the arts? This work identifies two dimensions of...
October 9, 2018
THE PRICE OF A NAME: ART MARKET VALUATION OF PROVISIONAL NAMES (“THE MASTER OF …”)
By Kim Oosterlinck and Anne-Sophie Radermecker The value of a painting is influenced above all by the artist who created it and his reputation....

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