We study the relationship between artist and art dealer, interpreting them as the members of a marketing channel, as defined by the industrial organization and marketing science literature. The results for both parties depend on the individual efforts of each of them. Uncoordinated efforts lead...

The presence of information externality, and the consequent necessity of public intervention to amend the effect of market failure, has been deeply analysed in the case of scientific research. In this Note we argue that the same point is particularly appropriate also in the case of arts: the...

This article studies the relationship between the artist and the art dealer, interpreted as being the two members of a “marketing channel”, as defined by industrial organization and marketing science literature. The result for both parties depends on the individual effort that each of them...