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Contingent valuation and cultural policy design: The case of "Napoli Musei Aperti"
Santagata, Walter; Signorello, Giovanni - 1998
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...
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The making of cultural policy : a European perspective
van der Ploeg, Frederick - 2005
No good comparable data on sizes of cultural sectors of the countries of Europe exist. Still, local and national governments of Europe spend substantial resources on culture and cultural sectors contribute significantly to employment and national income. After briefly describing special features...
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Culture and finance in a globalised world – An uneasy relation
Reszat, Beate - 2000
thereby also perhaps their influence on the culture world: The ever-increasing proportion of financial decisions made in so …-called 'non-places' and the role of finance in a virtual world. … Finanzzentren der Welt in immer stärkerem Wettbewerb zueinander stehen, und Kultur ist ein bestimmendes Element der …
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Audio-visual services: International trade and cultural policy
Doyle, Gillian - 2012
The audiovisual sector is a significant component of the economy in terms of wealth creation and employment and audiovisual industries also play an important cultural role. This study reviews the main forces driving patterns of trade in audiovisual (mainly television and film) and identifies key...
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Cultural Goods Consumption and Cultural Capital
Pethig, Rüdiger; Cheng, Sao-Wen - 2000
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...
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Cultural identity, mobility, and decentralization
Schild, Christopher-Johannes; Wrede, Matthias - 2010
Regional cultural identity increases trust and facilitates interaction between native citizens ('social capital'). At the same time, it also affects non-native's migration decisions and their utility as it excludes non-native mobile workers from economic interaction within the region. Policies...
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Optimising Use of Cultural Heritage
Koboldt, Christian - 1995
The paper gives a working definition of "cultural heritage" as collection of tangible objects related to the cultural development of a society that are inherited from past generations and are valued by contemporaries as an expression of this cultural development. The potential benefits and costs...
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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 …
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Investment, protection, ownership, and the cost of capital
Himmelberg, Charles P.; Hubbard, R. Glenn; Love, Inessa - 2002
We investigate the cost of capital in a model with an agency conflict between inside managers and outside shareholders. Inside ownership reflects the classic tradeoff between incentives and risk diversification, and the severity of agency costs depends on a parameter representing investor...
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Effects of Tax Depreciation Rules on Firms' Investment Decisions: A Comparison of European Transition Countries
Nam, Chang Woon; Radulescu, Doina Maria - In: CESifo DICE Report 01 (2003) 2, pp. 52-55
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