June 22, 2021
BEYOND THE REALM OF CASH: STREET PERFORMERS AND DONATIONS IN THE ONLINE WORLD
By Meg Elkins and Tim R.L. Fry The exchange for money between street performers and audiences is a changing landscape. Using unique data from...
June 8, 2021
UNDERSTANDING DIFFERENCES IN DONATIONS TO CULTURAL HERITAGE
By Victoria Ateca-Amestoy and Arantza Gorostiaga Cultural participation can engage in cultural heritage beyond visits to includes donating their money and their time to...
May 25, 2021
DO MUSEUMS FOSTER INNOVATION THROUGH ENGAGEMENT WITH THE CULTURAL AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES?
By Chiara Dalle Nogare and Monika Murzyn-Kupisz The recent narrative on museums as catalysts of innovation considers their relations with other cultural and creative...
May 11, 2021
BARGAINING OVER THE BALLET
By Caterina Mauri and Alexander Wolf Women and men in couples enjoy shared leisure activities. When their preferences are not aligned, they implicitly (or...
April 27, 2021
AI CANNOT FEEL EMOTIONS BUT IT COMPOSES GREAT MUSIC
By Francisco Tigre Moura The great Italian sculptor Michelangelo has allegedly once said, “Every block of stone has a statue inside, and it is...
April 13, 2021
THE ROLE OF CULTURAL CAPITAL ON THE VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS TO CULTURAL GOODS: A DIFFERENTIAL GAME APPROACH
By Massimo Finocchiaro Castro, Isidoro Mazza and Domenica Romeo To what extent do cultural goods contribute to increase society’s level of cultural capital? Greater...
March 16, 2021
WHAT DRIVES CULTURAL PARTICIPATION OF IMMIGRANTS IN THE HOST COUNTRY?
By Enrico Bertacchini, Alessandra Venturini and Roberto Zotti Migration has become in the last decades one of the most overarching phenomena at the global...
March 2, 2021
CULTURAL COMMONS AND URBAN DYNAMICS: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE
By Emanuela Macrì, Valeria Morea and Michele Trimarchi The recent urban experience reveals the growing importance of commons as a complex and often conflictual...
February 16, 2021
BRACE YOURSELVES, PIRATES ARE COMING! THE EFFECTS OF GAME OF THRONES LEAK ON TV VIEWERSHIP
By Wojciech Hardy On 11 April 2015, episodes of the hit show Game of Thrones were leaked to the web. The leak constituted a...
February 2, 2021
CULTURAL HERITAGE AND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN A TERRITORIAL CAPITAL CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
By Roberto Camagni, Roberta Capello, Silvia Cerisola and Elisa Panzera The role of Cultural Heritage in local development has been extensively recognized. In this...
January 19, 2021
MUSEUM FUNDING IN TIMES OF COVID-19 CRISIS
By Carmen Camarero, Maria José Garrido, and Eva Vicente In the current health and economic crisis triggered by Covid-19, the future of museums is...
January 5, 2021
DO ITALIAN MUSEUMS REALLY COMPETE IN SERVICES?
By Roberto Cellini, Tiziana Cuccia and Domenico Lisi Museums have experienced great changes over the past years. The weight attributed to traditional functions (collection,...
January 1, 2021
EconomistsTalkArt.org wishes you happy holidays and a great new year 2021!
By The Editorial Team The Editorial Team of EconomistsTalkArt.org wishes you a happy start into the New Year! The blog started as an idea...
December 22, 2020
CULTURAL HERITAGE AND NATURAL DISASTERS: THE INSURANCE CHOICE OF THE ITALIAN CATHEDRALS
By Francesco De Masi and Donatella Porrini Given the threat of natural disasters to Cultural Heritage, this paper aims to analyze the diffusion of...
December 8, 2020
“IN THE MOOD FOR TECHNOLOGY?”: DIGITAL AND CINEMA
By Pierre-Jean Benghozi Digital companies have invested the film industry by imposing their economic models. Meanwhile, a less disruptive “Art and Science” model of...
November 24, 2020
INVENTING CULINARY HERITAGE
By Sophie Marie Cappelen and Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen How can you invent a novel cuisine and culinary heritage? The study explores how a group...
