The art industry is a complex system in which many different actors interact in the production process in different roles and at different stages of the supply chain: artists, dealers, critics, art advisor, collecting societies and other actors who work at different levels in the process of...

We analyze the evolution of the price of paintings in the XVII century Amsterdam art market to test a hypothesis of endogenous entry: higher probability should attract more entry of painters, which in turn should lead to artistic innovations and more intense competition. We build a price index...

В статье рассматриваются вопросы, связанные с рыночными технологиями привлечения финансовых средств для обеспечения деятельности музеев. Решение этой...

В статье рассматриваются особенности арт-рынка и связанные с ними проблемы инвестирования в предметы искусства, обозначены барьеры, препятствующие...

After years of euphoric dissoluteness, art system faces today a state of uneasiness and insecurity, which is caused by acceptance of a compromise between autonomy of human creativity and economic materiality. As a result, its critic role get lost. Moreover, art system risks to become an alien...

In the literature, the comparison between the normal and the special VAT regimesis limited (i.e. with equal and uniform rates in each production or consumption phase,the two VAT regimes are identical). In this paper we also propose a general comparison inorder to define which regime is desirable...

The aim of this paper is to identify empirically the factors that influence the duration of the temporary exhibitions, distinguishing between prolonged and non prolonged ones. We use a sample of 259 exhibitions that took place in Italy over the period 2002-2005. The empirical evidence allows for...