Insufficiency of disposable income has long been one of the core problems faced by China’s nation-owned non-profit performing arts organizations. This paper employs random-effect model to examine the determinants that affect private donations to the organizations by using a 31-province level...

The objective of this paper is to empirically investigate the determinants of African-American (A-A) participation as audience members in the performing arts, e.g., orchestras. Specifically, the focus is on understanding the reasons for lower participation rates of A-A’s relative to Whites. In...

We conduct a field study at a performing arts theatre offering pay-what-you-want (PWYW) pricing as one of several pricing options to purchase tickets. While offering PWYW in this setting introduces multiple layers of self-selection, we find PWYW attendees are not a homogeneous group....

The major challenge facing performing arts in general and classical dance theatres in particular is about inducing and protecting 'creative aesthetic expression'. In this paper it is argued, that a classical dance theatre of the 21st century will be able to sustain itself in the long run, only...

The study aims to buttress the fact that cultural and theatrical performances contribute to a sustainable economic development for Nigeria. The study adopts descriptive and observatory method in its methodology to examine the performances and festivals to ascertain how they impact positively on...

The nonprofit performing arts have received substantial attention in the cultural economics literature, and represent an interesting application for many areas of economic inquiry. This chapter surveys the relevant theory and the most prominent empirical studies on performing arts nonprofits....