There is much interest among cultural economists in assessing the effects of heritage preservation policies. There has been less interest in modeling the policy choices made in historic and cultural landmark preservation. This paper builds an economic model of a landmark designation that...

The United States experienced merger waves of unprecedented proportions during the 1980s and 1990s. After mapping the resulting relocation of corporate headquarters among metropolitan areas, this article investigates how relocations affected the financial status of leading American symphony...

Der Beitrag analysiert das interessen- und bildungspolitische Feld der ökonomischen Bildung und fragt nach den relevanten Akteuren, ihren Ziele, Interessen und Aktivitäten. Er arbeitet die Grundlinien der bildungspolitischen Kontroverse um ein separates Schulfach Wirtschaft heraus und zeigt,...

Cultural capital is assumed to benefit all members of society. It is built up by the aggregate consumption of cultural goods and is diminished through depreciation. In the no-policy market economy, consumers tend to ignore the beneficial external effects of their cultural good consumption on the...

Die Nachfrage nach kulturellen Veranstaltungen ist bei Berlinern deutlich ausgeprägter als bei den übrigen Bundesbürgern. Dies gilt auch im Vergleich zu Bewohnern anderer deutscher Metropolen. Wie die Daten des vom DIW Berlin erhobenen Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) zeigen, gilt das große...

The aim of the paper is twofold: to carry out a contingent valuation study of "Napoli Musei Aperti", a cultural public good provided by the city of Naples, and to explore some alternative schemes of cultural policy. The paper is divided in two parts. In the first one some results from the...