November 23, 2021
ANONYMOUS ART AT AUCTION: LOOKING AT THE “UNBRANDED” AND THE “OUTDATED”
Anne-Sophie V. Radermecker For once, roles are reversed and this is art historians talking cultural economics. The goal of this book, at the intersection...
November 23, 2021
Economy Bytes
The special issue New Forms of Finance and Funding in the Cultural and Creative Industries of the Journal of Cultural Economics explores the recurring...
November 9, 2021
DOES THE ATTRACTIVENESS OF THE DANCER MATTER IN MODERN DANCE?
By Rachel Lau and Brooke Krause Audience members are willing to spend more time watching modern dance, and pay more for tickets, when they...
October 26, 2021
CULTURAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: UNDERSTANDING THE MARKET FOR MEANING
By Yu-Yu Chang, Jason Potts, and Hui-Yu Shih Cultural commodities, whether goods or services, are vehicles for conveying cultural and creative content. Consumers perceive...
October 12, 2021
STUDIOS VS. STREAMING: WHICH ‘LOGIC’ WILL PREVAIL IN HOLLYWOOD?
By Allègre L. Hadida, Joseph Lampel, W. David Walls and Amit Joshi The battle between traditional Hollywood studios and streaming services like Netflix is a...
September 28, 2021
IMPERIALIST FANTASIES AND POPULAR CULTURE: THE CASE OF TURKISH TV SOAPS
By Dimitra Laurence Larochelle The worldwide success of Turkish soap operas has prompted many scholars to argue on the contribution of these cultural products...
September 14, 2021
THE POWER OF LOCAL NETWORKING: BOLOGNA’S MUSIC SCENE AS A CREATIVE COMMUNITY, 1978–1992
By Sabrina Pedrini and Pier Luigi Sacco The creative industries have been regarded, for many years, as the soul of urban development. Among these,...
July 16, 2021
EconomistsTalkArt.org goes on vacation
By The Editorial EconomistsTalkArt.org has selected bi-weekly posts for the past six years for you to read leading research in cultural economics and related...
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...
