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Kind of Black : the musicians' labour market in Italy
Balestrino, Alessandro - 2009
It is estimated that only 5% of musicians in Italy are regularly employed. In an attempt at understanding such a peculiar situation, we build a theoretical model of the musicians' labour market in which we embed the main institutional features of the Italian system. We notice how the presence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003883019
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A multiplicity of approaches to institutional analysis : applications to the government and the arts
Frey, Bruno S. - 2009
Four types of economicsʺ relevant for institutional analysis are distinguished: Standard Neoclassical Economics; Socio-Economics or Social Economics; New Institutional Economics; and Psychological Economics (often misleadingly called Behavioural Economics). The paper argues that an extension of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872188
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Making world heritage truly global : the culture certificate scheme
Frey, Bruno S.; Pamini, Paolo - 2009
Culture has attributes of a global public good that needs to be preserved for mankind as a whole. World Culture Certificates are proposed to efficiently preserve World Heritage. The community of nations has to agree on the Global Heritage List and how much each nation is to contribute to that...
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World heritage list : does it make sense?
Frey, Bruno S.; Steiner, Lasse - 2010
The UNESCO World Heritage List contains the 900 most treasured sites of humanity's culture and landscapes. The World Heritage List is beneficial where heritage sites are undetected, disregarded by national decision-makers, not commercially exploitable, and where national financial resources,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003974639
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Pay as you go : a new proposal for museum pricing
Frey, Bruno S.; Steiner, Lasse - 2010
goals. The classical ones are entry prices and free entry. The museum club solution or exit donations allow for various … additional goals. Each scheme has clear advantages and disadvantages. We propose an innovative pricing instrument: Exit prices … better choice available to the visitors, which increases their satisfaction. -- prices ; museums ; culture ; donations ; homo …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003997593
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Collective memory and nostalgia in the Dutch Radio2 Top2000 chart 1999-2013
Sterken, Elmer - 2014
The paper analyses the impact of age on the ranking of recorded popular songs in the Dutch Radio2 Top2000 chart in the years 1999-2013. We measure the competition between the loss of collective memory and nostalgia with respect to popular songs. Nostalgic feelings seem to be relevant to recorded...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246058
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Beyond the dogma of the fixed book price agreement
Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2003
given. Allowance is made for the opportunity cost of reading. Theoretically, the agreement pushes up book prices and …
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Financial returns to collecting rare political economy books
Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2021
Rare books of political economy are eminently collectable. Using historical prices, I employ hedonic regressions to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012437910
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Jane Beats them all : price formation and financial returns to investing in rare books
Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2020
I report historical prices and estimate financial returns to investing in rare books. My sample consists of 25 fiction … titles recommended by Clifton Fadiman in his 1960 Lifetime Reading Plan. Relying on prices realized at American and British …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219369
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The role of gender and coauthors in academic publication behavior
Schmal, Wolfgang Benedikt; Haucap, Justus; Knoke, Leon - 2023
We use the negotiations for large-scale open-access agreements between German research institutions and leading academic publishers to study how changes in the attractiveness of various journals affect the publication behavior of researchers in economics and adjacent fields. First, as German...
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