Este trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar los determinantes del consumo de libros y publicaciones periódicas en España. En concreto, se cuantifica la influencia que factores familiares, socioeconómicos y geográficos ejercen tanto sobre la decisión de compra de libros y publicaciones...

Published as an article in: Economic Modelling, 2011, vol. 28, issue 3, pages 1140-1149.

En este artículo se investigan los hábitos de lectura y de asistencia a las bibliotecas dentro del marco teórico de las decisiones racionales del consumidor y atendiendo esencialmente a la influencia del capital cultural individual tiene en la formación de las preferencias. Utilizando la...

Through a comparative survey based on a unique dataset, we highlight existing similarities and differences in the museum demand of two similar institutions located in two different European cities, Padua and Seville. While considering some of the peculiarities of the two museums, we examine the...

This study investigates whether the introduction of an entrance fee affects visitor composition at a state funded museum in Sweden. While entrance to the museum was still free, we conducted a survey to collect information about visitor characteristics and used the Contingent Valuation (CV)...

Product quality is often unobservable ex-ante and consumers rely on experts’ judgments, sometimes coming under the form of ratings or awards. Do awards affect consumers’ choices or they are conferred to the most popular products? To disentangle this issue, we use data of the most important...

This paper estimates a demand function for orchestras in Germany and in the process provides estimates of the impact of various determinants of demand for live orchestral music. Price and income are shown to be highly significant as are the quality factors included. The price elasticity is...

Existing studies on the motion picture industry tend to explore demand for cinema films focusing only on a single country, aiming to assess the probability of a movie’s success. This means that the determinants of consumer demand, from a cross-country perspective, are relatively unexplored....

In this paper, we assess the forecasting performance of count data models applied to arts attendance. We estimate participation models for two artistic activities that differ in their degree of popularity -museum and jazz concerts- with data derived from the 2002 release of the Survey of Public...

The failure of many paintings to sell in art auctions indicates the presence of reserve prices set by sellers. This paper examines the relationship between sale rates and price surprises over time in art auctions. Using data on contemporary and impressionist art, we show that while sale rates...