We study return rates on art investment using a complete dataset on repeated sales for Old Master Paintings, Modern art … and Contemporary art auctioned worldwide at Christie's and Sotheby's from 2000 to 2018. We show that return rates do not … or death of the author) that appear reflected in art returns. We confirm the absence of masterpiece effects in American …

We provide evidence of a cubic law of art prices that hints to a general pattern for the distribution of artistic … talent. The persistence across heterogeneous markets from historical ones to contemporary art auctions of a power law in the …

We analyze the Paris art market between the government-controlled Salon as a centralized organization of art exhibition … the old Salon decided on submissions with a bias toward conservative art of the academic insiders, reducing demand for the …

We analyze art pricing in a unique dataset on Madrid inventories between 1600 and 1750. Hedonic regressions reveal a …, in line with the Lopez hypothesis for which investment in art increases in wealthy societies without new productive … the Siglo de Oro of Spanish art …

Art history may be at a turning point in the adoption of a quantitative approach typical of social sciences, and this …, and will hopefully foster interdisciplinary research, which appears quite promising for a field as art history that is … traditionally focused on qualitative analysis of canonical art rather than empirical analysis of representative samples of artistic …