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Marta Zieba 《Journal of Cultural Economics》2009,33(2):85-108
This article provides estimates of price and income elasticities of demand for German public theatre, using a large and reliable
data set for 178 theatres over 40 years (1965–2004). It is posited that the consumption of the performing arts is a time-intensive
activity for which both a theatre ticket and leisure time are necessary. Thus, the impacts of ‘full-income’ (‘leisure time
income’ added to disposable income) and the price of leisure time on theatre attendance are examined. The findings indicate
that the demand for the performing arts is own-price inelastic. The disposable income elasticity is significant, positive
and equals approximately one. In contrast, the full-income elasticity is well above one and greater than usual income elasticity
indicating that the performing arts are a luxury good when leisure time income is included in the consumer’s budget. The positive
full-income effect is, however, offset by the negative price of leisure effect indicating that leisure time is a complement
for the performing arts. Additionally, three objective quality characteristics of theatrical productions which can positively
influence theatre demand are examined.
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| Marta ZiebaEmail: |
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Theatre experts generally agree that the Flemish theatre has flourished artistically over the period 1980–2000. Attendance,
on the other hand, has declined significantly. Following Lancaster’s characteristics approach, we identify several output
characteristics of individual theatre productions. Using a panel of 59 Flemish theatres, we examine the impact on demand of
both these output characteristics and of traditional determinants such as own price, income and the price of substitutes.
Differences in the relevant geographical market for touring and non-touring theatres are considered. We find that the nature
of the artistic output affects demand. Theatregoers prefer large productions (in terms of cast size), plays by Dutch-speaking
playwrights and revivals of old productions. Own price and consumer income have the expected negative and positive effects
on attendance. Observed trends toward a decreasing proportion of new plays, an increasing presence of plays by Dutch-speaking
playwrights, and increasing consumer income had a stimulating effect on attendance. These trends have been offset, however,
by trends toward smaller cast sizes and higher ticket prices as well as by unobserved factors captured by time dummies. The
net result has been a considerable drop in attendance.
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| Kristien WerckEmail: |
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Douglas S. Noonan 《Journal of Cultural Economics》2007,31(4):293-310
This report focuses on state government appropriations to state arts agencies (SAA), a primary figure in arts and cultural
policy in the United States. A dynamic panel-data estimator can identify the fiscal, institutional, and demographic determinants
on SAA appropriations. Agency budgets are particularly sensitive to past appropriations, past state revenues and NEA grants,
some demographic variables, party control of state government, and state budgeting rules. Federal funds attract, rather than
crowd out, state appropriations. While the influence of some demographic variables may be shifting over time, income growth
continues to explain much of SAA appropriations.
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| Douglas S. NoonanEmail: |
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In this article, we examine the objectives of nonprofit arts firms. We approach this problem from both theoretical and empirical
angles, building a structural model of arts nonprofit utility that distinguishes between the maximization of quality, the
organization’s level of service, and its budget. We then construct an empirical method for testing which objective is evident
in firm-level data. As an example application, we test the objectives of the managers of American public radio stations in
the 1990s, finding that about half of stations have discernible objectives. The data show service is not an objective for
about 30% of the stations; quality can be ruled out for 49%; and budget is rejected for 69%. In addition, large stations are
harder to classify by objective than small ones are.
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| Arthur C. BrooksEmail: |
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Jason Potts Stuart Cunningham John Hartley Paul Ormerod 《Journal of Cultural Economics》2008,32(3):167-185
We propose a new definition of the creative industries in terms of social network markets. The extant definition of the creative
industries is based on an industrial classification that proceeds in terms of the creative nature of inputs and the intellectual
property nature of outputs. We propose, instead, a new market-based definition in terms of the extent to which both demand
and supply operate in complex social networks. We review and critique the standard creative industries definitions and explain
why we believe a market-based social network definition offers analytic advance. We discuss some empirical, analytic and policy
implications of this new definition.
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| Jason PottsEmail: |
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This article investigates the effect of a Tony nomination or win on the demand facing a Broadway production using a panel
of weekly revenues for Broadway productions from 1996 to 2007. Our results indicate that the effect of a nomination or win
is positive in the week of the announcement and gradually increases in successive weeks, presumably due to publicity and word-of-mouth.
Winners experience an increase in demand as late as 1 year later when awards are publicized for the following season. Moreover,
nominees that do not win the award are penalized heavily in the weeks following the Award announcements. We find that winning
a Tony Award increases a production’s revenues by 12% in the week immediately following the Awards.
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| Lesley ChiouEmail: |
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The debate about whether the arts should be supported or not is far from new, and most governments support the arts in one
way or the other. The literature considers several arguments in favor of such interventions. Public education may seem to
be an action which could, in the long run, lead to possible reductions of subsidies. Surveys show that those who have been
exposed to the arts when young participate more when adult. However, the “non-market” transmission from parents to children
generates an external effect, which has to be taken into account to reach first-best situations. We construct an overlapping
generations model in which young consumers are exposed to both public education toward the arts and to non-altruistic transmission
of such a taste from their parents. We show that the first-best can be reached only if there is both public cultural education
and subsidization of arts consumption. Therefore, education cannot be considered as a substitute for subsidies to arts consumption.
However, as is often the case in European countries, government intervention is usually below the first-best level. Using
a model calibrated on French data, we show that it is then preferable to subsidize education, while consumption, especially
of the older generations, should be taxed rather than subsidized.
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| Luc ChamparnaudEmail: |
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Michael Hutter Christian Knebel Gunnar Pietzner Maren Schäfer 《Journal of Cultural Economics》2007,31(4):247-261
The article tests a couple of hypotheses relating to markets where demand is not taken as a given, but subject to sophisticated
and encompassing price-building strategies. The study uses a data set that provides quoted dealer prices for medium-sized
works of 100 leading visual artists from 1970 to 2004. These data are compared with auction price results for works by the
same artists. The study reports significant discrepancies with respect to the relationship between the age of artists and
prices paid for their works in the two markets, and with respect to general price developments in the two markets as measured
by indices.
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| Michael HutterEmail: |
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Edgeir Benum 《Minerva》2007,45(4):365-387
This essay explores how the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Norway became linked into a
science policy discourse that radiated throughout the developed world. Despite political differences, this discourse changed
forever the expectations by which Norway’s universities and its fundamental research institutions were to operate.
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| Edgeir BenumEmail: |
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Isabelle Laboulais 《Minerva》2008,46(1):17-36
The revolutionary period in France marked a turning point in the history of the profession of mining engineering and its relation
to the State. This essay outlines the changing requirements of the revolutionary government, and describes the ways in which
the State and its engineering professionals responded to the challenge of combining science and practice.
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| Isabelle LaboulaisEmail: |
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Alan L. Feld 《Journal of Cultural Economics》2008,32(4):275-279
This paper was presented at the symposium dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the publication of Patrons Despite Themselves: Taxpayers and Arts Policy (Feld et al. 1983), held by the Association for Cultural Economics International, Boston, June 2008. Patrons Despite Themselves raised and tried to answer a number of important questions of policy concerning indirect government support for the arts.
These questions have continued salience for what we see in our museums and hear in our concert halls. The primary source of
federal indirect aid in the U.S. continues to derive from the deduction in the federal income tax for contributions to not-for-profit
cultural institutions. On the other hand, there has been a series of recent challenges to the tax-exempt status of charitable
institutions.
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| Alan L. FeldEmail: |
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For academic administrators, the management of research remains a matter more of hope than expectation. It has proved particularly
difficult to measure quality. Managers typically view research as an ‹asset’. This essay argues that it is more useful to
view research and its management as ‹process’, and explores the implications of doing so for managers and researchers alike.
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| Paul H. J. HendriksEmail: |
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Determining heterogeneous behavior for theater attendance 总被引：2，自引：1，他引：1
Victoria Ateca-Amestoy 《Journal of Cultural Economics》2008,32(2):127-151
In this paper we propose and estimate a model of theater participation using the data contained in the 2002 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts from the USA, a dataset widely used to study the determinants of cultural participation. Our contribution relies on the use
of an estimation technique that respects the count data nature of the attendance variable (number of theater performances
that an individual attended) and allows for heterogeneous behavior. By using a Zero Inflated Negative Binomial Model, we can
characterize two distinct behaviors for the observable attendance: a group of never-goers (who never participate) and a subpopulation
that has a positive probability of attending. For this latter group, we can estimate the effect of certain personal variables
on the probability of highest frequency. The results suggest that the proposed model is appropriate for estimating cultural
participation.
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| Victoria Ateca-AmestoyEmail: |
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Timothy King 《Journal of Cultural Economics》2007,31(3):171-186
In a market characterized by a very large number of consumers, irregularly and infrequently choosing from a constantly changing
menu of possibilities, widely available impartial information and advice would be expected to make a significant impact on
demand. In the U.S. in 2003, however, there was zero correlation between critical ratings for films and gross box office earnings.
For movies released on more than 1,000 screens, critical ratings were indeed positively related to gross earnings, and, together
with production budgets and the number of opening screens, explained more than half the variance. But films with only limited
opening release received higher average ratings. This is especially the case for foreign movies and documentaries but also
true for American films, whose ratings, though positively related to the box office, seldom have enough influence to propel
a movie into later wide exhibition or high earnings.
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| Timothy KingEmail: |
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This essay describes China’s participation in international science organizations during the past two decades. It argues that,
whilst progress has been made, serious problems remain. It concludes that increased attention to communication and exchange,
and the creation of a favourable international image in science and technology are important priorities for China.
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| Ang XuEmail: |
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Governments often see it as their responsibility to support cultural life and at times spend a significant amount of resources
in the pursuit of this goal. The present article analyses whether and how municipalities influence each other in this decision
to spend resources on the arts (using data on local government cultural spending in 304 Flemish municipalities in 2002). Following
‘central place theory’, the focal point of the analysis is the idea that––especially for cultural expenditures––large municipalities
(and, specifically, ‘central places’) may affect their neighbours’ behaviour differently than small municipalities. The empirical
analysis supports this idea. Indeed, we show that Flemish municipalities’ cultural spending is generally positively affected
by that in neighbouring municipalities. This pattern is, however, significantly more complex for municipalities neighbouring
the 13 largest Flemish cities.
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| Benny Geys (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Peder Anker 《Minerva》2007,45(4):417-434
Buckminster Fuller’s experiences in the Navy became a model for his ecological design projects and suggestions for the global
management of ‘Spaceship Earth’. Inspired by technocratic ideas of the 1930s, Fuller envisaged, in the 1970s, an elitist world
without politics, in which designers were at the helm, steering the planet out of its environmental crises.
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| Peder AnkerEmail: |
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Andrea Bonaccorsi 《Minerva》2008,46(3):285-315
The article addresses the issue of dynamics of science, in particular of new sciences born in twentieth century and developed
after the Second World War (information science, materials science, life science). The article develops the notion of search
regime as an abstract characterization of dynamic patterns, based on three dimensions: the rate of growth, the degree of internal
diversity of science and the associated dynamics (convergent vs. proliferating), and the nature of complementarity. The article
offers a conceptual discussion for the argument that new sciences follow a different pattern than established sciences and
presents preliminary evidence drawn from original data in particle physics, computer science and nanoscience.
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| Andrea BonaccorsiEmail: |
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Roy Macleod 《Minerva》2008,46(1):53-76
In 1925, A.J. Balfour, first Earl Balfour and author of the famous ‘Balfour Declaration’, attended the inauguration of the
Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His education and experience of foreign policy equipped him to take a prominent role. However,
the conditions of strife-torn Palestine weighed heavily upon him, and raised wider interests of imperial concern. This essay
recounts the circumstances leading to his visit, and suggests that, whatever the region’s political destiny, Balfour’s vision
of science-based economic development would play an essential role in crafting its future.
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| Roy MacleodEmail: |
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Laurel Smith-Doerr 《Minerva》2008,46(1):1-16
Many graduate programmes in science now require courses in ethics. However, little is known about their reception or use.
Using websites and interviews, this essay examines ethics requirements in the field of biosciences in three countries (the
United States of America, the United Kingdom, and Italy) between 2000 and 2005. Evidence suggests that current policies may
be ineffective, and that scientists who take ethical issues seriously are seen as exceptional.
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| Laurel Smith-DoerrEmail: |