October 10, 2017
EXPLAINING THE CONTROVERSIAL APPEAL OF MOVIE FRANCHISES
An Application of ‘Consumption Capital Theory’ to Serial Media Content By Christian Opitz and Kay H. Hofmann The appeal of movie continuations clearly is...
September 26, 2017
FREE PORTS OR ART PRISONS?
By Sigrid Hemels Art may be stored without tax in free ports. However, one may wonder whether free ports are just special tax regimes...
September 12, 2017
THE ROLE PLAYED BY CULTURAL HERITAGE IN INFLUENCING THE LOCATION CHOICES OF SKILLED INDIVIDUALS
By Pia Nilsson and Mikaela Backman The development of regions is determined by the knowledge and skills of people living there. Thus, it is...
August 29, 2017
MAKING CULTURE CAPITAL: EVALUATING THREE DECADES OF THE EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE
By Pedro Gomes and Alejandro Librero-Cano We measure the regional impact of the European Capital of Culture programme using a difference-in-differences approach. GDP per...
July 11, 2017
EconomistsTalkArt.org “GOING ON VACATION”
By The Editorial Team Dear Readers, The “crew” of EconomistsTalkArt.org blog will be going on (hopefully deserved…) vacation during the summer break. We will...
June 27, 2017
DONOR GOVERNANCE AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT IN PROMINENT US ART MUSEUMS
By David Yermack In the article, we study “donor governance”, which occurs when contributors to nonprofit firms place restrictions on their gifts to limit...
June 13, 2017
DOES THE LONG-TAIL BENEFIT SMALL PUBLISHERS? EVIDENCE FROM THE FRENCH PUBLISHING INDUSTRY
By Stéphanie Peltier, Françoise Benhamou and Mamoudou Toure What does the long tail effect mean? In many industries, sales are concentrated on a few...
May 30, 2017
CAN TWO HEADS LEAD? THE ART VERSUS THE COMMERCE ORIENTED MANAGER IN FILM PROJECTS
By Joris Ebbers and Nachoem Wijnberg Film projects have a dual-leadership structure, based on a division of tasks between the director and the producer,...
May 16, 2017
TOURISTS AND MUSEUMS: WHEN LEISURE BECOMES LEARNING
By Juan Gabriel Brida, Chiara Dalle Nogare and Raffaele Scuderi Are museums successful in their mission to disseminate culture, and as such, to be...
May 2, 2017
FOR MUSEUMS, WITH RAIN COME CROWDS?
By Harold E. Cuffe Weather is regarded as an important determinant of leisure choices, yet little attention has been paid to the ways that...
April 18, 2017
THE PRINCESS OF ASTURIAS FOUNDATION OR HOW A NON-PROFIT INSTITUTION CAN BE EFFICIENT
By Víctor Fernández-Blanco and Ana Rodríguez-Álvarez Competition and the internal logic of markets induce cultural firms and institutions to be efficient when market oriented....
April 4, 2017
CULTURALLY-BIASED VOTING IN THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST: DO NATIONAL CONTESTS DIFFER?
By Julia Pannicke and Oliver Budzinski Regarding the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) there are numerous controversies about discriminating and tactical voting. People vote for...
March 22, 2017
FILM AND THE CITY: SYMBIOTIC ASSOCIATION BETWEEN RIO DE JANEIRO AND BRAZIL’S MOVIE INDUSTRY
By João Luiz de Figueiredo and Rodrigo Carvalho Creative activities tend to materialize within the landscape of large cities as agglomerations of specialized firms and...
March 7, 2017
WOMEN BENEFIT MORE: CONNECTIONS BETWEEN SLOVENIAN VISUAL ARTISTS OF THE 19 AND 20 CENTURIES
By Andrej Srakar, Petja Grafenauer and Marilena Vecco Slovenian art history has received very little (if any) attention from the viewpoint of network theory....
February 21, 2017
FROM SNOBBY TO SUSTAINABLE: MOVING MUSEUM FUNDRAISING FROM SELECT ELITIST CONTRIBUTIONS TO DIVERSE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
By Yuha Jung With public funding for the arts decreasing, fundraising is becoming more vital—especially for museums where contributions comprise most of their revenue....
February 7, 2017
ARTISTS’ SURVIVAL RATE: EDUCATION MATTERS
By Trine Bille and Søren Jensen The literature of cultural economics generally finds that an artistic education has no significant impact on artists’ income...
