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David Throsby 《Journal of Cultural Economics》2006,30(1):1-14
This paper proposes a production function for artistic output in which quantity and quality of output are specified as joint
products from the inputs of labour and capital provided by individual artists. A model is constructed specifying the quantity
of creative and commercial output and the quality of creative output as a function of inputs of labour time and of physical
and human capital. Included in the latter is a variable to account for the contribution of creative talent to an artist's
human capital. The model is estimated for a sample of practising professional visual artists and craftspeople in Australia.
The results suggest that a model along the lines indicated may be taken as a plausible representation of the artistic production
process. 相似文献
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Section 1 introduces the hypothesis that competition among neighboring states may favor cultural innovation, and it surveys
the available quantitative evidence. Section 2 starts from the assumption that European instrumental music had its breakthrough
during the Baroque era and that the most famous composers came from the two countries characterized by the highest degree
of political fragmentation: Italy and Germany. It suggests that political fragmentation has promoted musical composition and
performance in several ways. The average duration of employment is proposed as a proxy for competition on the demand side.
Section 3 shows that the most famous Italian and German composers of the Baroque period changed their employers significantly
more often than their French and British counterparts did. Moreover, the Reformation led to musical competition between the
Catholic and Protestant churches. Section 4 argues that competition for composers has also been important in other periods
of European history – including competition between the Church and the courts. It shows that composers moved no less in the
Renaissance than in the Baroque. Section 5 raises the question whether European music may also be said to express a competitive
spirit.
JEL classification: Z11 相似文献
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Marc Bourreau Michel Gensollen François Moreau Patrick Waelbroeck 《Journal of Cultural Economics》2013,37(3):327-346
In this paper, we use data from a survey of 151 French record companies to test the “long-tail” hypothesis at the level of the firm. More specifically, we test whether, following the “selling less of more” principle coined by Anderson (2006), record companies that have adapted to digitization (at various levels: artists’ scouting, distribution, and promotion) release more new albums without having higher overall sales. We construct a production function in which the output is produced from conventional inputs of labor and capital, as well as inputs that are more specific to the recorded music industry. We consider two types of output: a commercial output (albums sales) and a creative output (number of new albums released). We show that labels that have adapted to digitization are more efficient in respect of creative output, but that there is no effect of adaptation to digitization on the commercial output, which is consistent with the predictions of the long-tail hypothesis. 相似文献
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Silvia Cerisola 《Journal of Cultural Economics》2018,42(2):243-269
Creativity is currently at the centre of a lively scientific debate in which scholars from different fields are engaged. The interest on such topic is mainly due to its potential positive impact on economic development; thus, understanding the determinants of creativity becomes important in terms of policy decisions. Although the existing literature has identified some determinants of creativity, evidence on the specific impact of such determinants on particular creative talents and on the degree of creative complexity within a local area is still scant. This work tries to fill this gap starting from the thought that the mental cross-fertilization of talents in different fields is what stimulates the best and most original ideas. By considering artistic, scientific, and economic creativities as the main modes in which creativity can show itself, the paper explores empirically the relation between local socio-economic characteristics and the concurrent presence of multiple creative talents. 相似文献
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Ivan L. Pitt 《Journal of Cultural Economics》2010,34(3):219-236
This paper examines the economic accomplishments of individual members in a Performing Rights Organization (PRO), sometimes
referred to as a Performing Rights Society. Today, there is the growing importance of intellectual property and copyright
protection for authors and creators of literary, dramatic, musical, artistic and other intellectual works. The digital age
has placed added pressure on songwriters, lyricists and composers in their ability to derive economic benefits from their
intellectual creativity in the form of a copyright. Copyright laws protect and enable the creation of music by allowing authors and composers to license the control and use
of their creations, and receive compensation in the form of royalty payments for their work. The PROs license, collect and
distribute royalty payments for non-dramatic public performances of copyrighted musical works created and owned by its members or affiliates. In this paper, skewness and heavy tail of returns
in the form of member royalty payments are estimated using the skew-normal and skew-t distributions in a parametric approach. We found strong evidence of the so-called ‘superstar effect’ in which the average
royalty payment made by a PRO is still dominated by extreme outcomes, and relatively few members earned a substantial share
of royalty payments from blockbuster hits that have endured over time. There is little evidence of smaller niche members dominating
or replacing the ‘superstars.’ Economists and others will benefit from this empirical study which emphasizes a new understanding
of the music industry from a PRO, member royalty payment and performance copyright perspective. 相似文献
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Staffan Albinsson 《Journal of Cultural Economics》2013,37(2):175-184
For this study, data from the annual reports of the STIM (the Swedish Performing Right Society) (By Swedes it is read as a word: ‘stim’ and not as four separate initials S.T.I.M.) were collected and analysed. If the general hypothesis that a digital technology shift has resulted in illegal downloading holds true, there should be a decrease in total revenues for composers from record sales. This is what the STIM data show. There has, however, been a simultaneous growth in income from other sources, which compensates for the loss from record royalties. This study also includes a unique data set from the STIM showing revenues for individual music IPR owners. The general finding is that a very small group of composers receives a very large share of the copyright revenues. Music as a ‘winner-takes-all’ arena is apparent. 相似文献
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Integrated international marketing of films and related merchandise and close financial ties between distributors and roducers have evolved to cope with the risks of piracy, cost containment, opportunism, and revenue uncertainty. Our reading of the evidence is that this system has dominated because of its efficiency. In search of an explanation of why America remains the centre of this institutional and contractual web, we examine the impact of two world wars, the rapid commercialization of new technologies in the United States by aggressive managers, an open financial system and the ethnic diversity, language homogeneity, and size of the domestic market.We are grateful to Elizabet Filleul, Simon Grant, Peter Harcourt, Ian Jarvie and Janet Staiger for their comments but absolve them of any responsibility for the views presented. 相似文献
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On the economics of musical composition in Mozart's Vienna 总被引：2，自引：1，他引：1
The article provides historical evidence suggesting that a substantial element in the explanation of the profusion of talented composers in the 18th century Habsburg empire was the fragmentation of the state into many near-independent states, each with its own court seeking entertainment and prestige through new musical offerings. The resulting profusion of jobs attracted people into the profession and provided hearings for their work. The article also examines the data on Mozart's finances and using a rough translation of 18th century Austrian currency into current dollars supports recent revisionist findings that, with the exception of several years, he was relatively well off. 相似文献
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Economic activity and innovation clusters in urban areas. Urban economics points to important knowledge and productivity spillovers in cities, in addition to other factors like thicker markets, lower transportation costs, and consumptive amenities. Yet thus far little work has analyzed how these different factors drive migration decisions of arts-related entrepreneurs, especially when they work in online platforms for fundraising. We use data on the largest US crowdfunding platform to identify relocating creators, allowing us to identify which kinds of regions are attracting and retaining more of this sort of talent. We test for the influence of clustering based on homophily, migration to larger markets, and relocation toward particular geographic amenities. Overall we find the strongest evidence for homophily and some distinct tendencies favoring certain regional amenities. Importantly, we both identify general relocation patterns among crowdfunding creatives and break down the attracting features for different types of creators. An examination of (net) migration by different categories of projects, such as musicians or filmmakers, reveals important heterogeneity in the attractors. For example, musicians are drawn stronger music sectors, while writers seek more isolation from other writers. This helps inform the interregional competition for talent and “creative class,” especially among a group of relatively footloose arts- and culture-intensive entrepreneurs.
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In Portugal, research productivity is nowadays essential for the positive assessment of academics, research units and study programmes. Academic inbreeding has been highlighted in the literature as one of the factors influencing research productivity. This paper tests the hypothesis that inbreeding is detrimental for research productivity, measured through the number of publications listed in Scopus. The study resorts to a database provided by the national Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education (A3ES), which comprises all academics teaching in all Portuguese institutions in the academic year 2015/2016. The sample selected for the analysis contains all academics with a PhD in Sociology (N=289). The study uses a special regression model for the analysis: the negative binomial logit hurdle. This was necessary given the large amount of academics with no publications or citations in Scopus, which were the dependent variables to assess research performance. The analysis provides separate results for the probability of inbred academics of having no papers/citations, and for the probability of producing more papers/citations than the non-inbred. Findings suggest that academic inbreeding, defined at the institutional level, has no negative effect on research productivity, contrary to what was expected. However, when defined at the national level, academic inbreeding is detrimental for the recognition and the impact of research: academics with a foreign PhD are more likely to have citations compared to academics who obtained their PhD in Portugal. A tendency was also noted that inbreeding might be more detrimental to research productivity in faculties of Economics than in Social Sciences and Humanities.
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This paper analyzes the productivity development in the German public theater sector for the seasons 1991/1992 to 2005/2006.
Using a stochastic distance frontier approach that allows decomposing total factor productivity change into different sources,
we examine (a) whether Baumol’s cost-disease hypothesis is valid in this sector and (b) if so, whether any negative influence
of the cost-disease effect on productivity can be compensated by efficiency gains. The findings indicate an increase in real
unit labor cost as a result of rising wage rates and thus do support the cost-disease hypothesis. Further, increasing returns
to scale are observed for the majority of the theaters, implying that significant efficiency gains can be realized by the
exploitation of scale economies. However, because of the increasing unit labor cost and an increasing scale inefficiency,
we find an overall decrease in average productivity of about 8% within the sample period. 相似文献
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F. M. Scherer 《Journal of Cultural Economics》2001,25(4):307-319
Using qualitative histories and coded data on 645 composers born between 1650and 1849, this article traces the evolution of free-lance activity by musiccomposers over the course of two centuries. Contrary to widely advancedsuppositions, many composers were pursuing free-lance composition as the 17thcentury ended, although more for opera than instrumental music writing. Fromthat time on, free-lance composition expanded steadily, replacing employmentby the church and the nobility. A growing number of composers also acted asimpresarios in organizing their own opera or concert performances. Composersearned their bread in many other ways too. There were clear rising trends intheir employment as private orchestra directors and conservatory professors. 相似文献
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Michael Hutter 《Journal of Cultural Economics》1998,22(2-3):99-112
Art museum output changes away from collection maintenance to display events and to the sale of add-on goods. What is the driving force? A series of theoretical explanations are tested: technological changes which favor new input combinations and thus arrive at a changed output; changes in the relative price structure; income flows and their relation to the productivity of the different museum output segments. It will be claimed that changes in the ability of art museums to become productive as part of a communication network are the major driving force of the output change. 相似文献
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Is Inequality Among Universities Increasing? Gini Coefficients and the Elusive Rise of Elite Universities 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
One of the unintended consequences of the New Public Management (NPM) in universities is often feared to be a division between
elite institutions focused on research and large institutions with teaching missions. However, institutional isomorphisms
provide counter-incentives. For example, university rankings focus on certain output parameters such as publications, but
not on others (e.g., patents). In this study, we apply Gini coefficients to university rankings in order to assess whether
universities are becoming more unequal, at the level of both the world and individual nations. Our results do not support
the thesis that universities are becoming more unequal. If anything, we predominantly find homogenisation, both at the level
of the global comparisons and nationally. In a more restricted dataset (using only publications in the natural and life sciences),
we find increasing inequality for those countries, which used NPM during the 1990s, but not during the 2000s. Our findings
suggest that increased output steering from the policy side leads to a global conformation to performance standards. 相似文献
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Colin Hoskins Stuart McFadyen Adam Finn Anne Jackel 《Journal of Cultural Economics》1997,21(2):129-138
International co-production has become an increasingly important mode for television programs and film. In this paper we report the results of a survey on partner perceptions of performance in Canada/Europe co-productions. In particular we examine whether expectations that the general experience is positive and that Canadian and European partners have similar assessments of the level of performance, are justified. Our survey evidence does support the hypothesis that in total the experience is positive. However, it appears this is only the case because a good creative artistic performance more than outweighs a less than satisfactory total project recoupment. The hypothesis that Canadian and European partners have similar perceptions of performance is not borne out. Generally, Canadian partners seem more satisfied than European, particularly French. 相似文献
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《Journal of Cultural Economy》2013,6(1):31-47
Normative cultural economy discourse on New York City embraces the creative industries as engines of job creation but neglects the quality of employment within them. This article sets out to both illuminate the precarious conditions of nonstandard workers in New York's vaunted creative sectors and identify emerging collective responses to precarity in this city. Three areas of labour activity are focused upon: fashion industry frictions, art world agitations, and independent worker initiatives. Under each of these headings, the article profiles two organizations that are variously exposing, resisting, and mitigating precarity among flexible labour forces in the arts, the media, cultural industries, and beyond. The discussion of these organizations is informed by interviews with some of their protagonists, by documents produced by the organizations, and/or by media coverage of them. Challenging the assumption that getting by in informal cultural labour markets obliges individual coping strategies, this article reveals scenes from a metropolitan laboratory of precarious labour politics. These initiatives are inklings of a recomposition of labour politics in which flexible workforces in creative industries are important participants. 相似文献
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This article addresses the business of film music in mainstream Nollywood. It does so by focusing on the materiality of the industry as an institution: its social organisation and systems of film music production; markets; networks; and power relations. Specifically, the arguments rely on social organisational theories, and economic concepts such as vertical integration and market competition alongside inferences from interviews with insider-practitioners. Findings reveal that the Nollywood film music industry is characterised by non-institutionalised vertical integration within a perfectly competitive market in which its film music composers are, essentially, competing without advantage. 相似文献
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Theatre experts generally agree that the Flemish theatre has flourished artistically over the period 1980–2000. Attendance,
on the other hand, has declined significantly. Following Lancaster’s characteristics approach, we identify several output
characteristics of individual theatre productions. Using a panel of 59 Flemish theatres, we examine the impact on demand of
both these output characteristics and of traditional determinants such as own price, income and the price of substitutes.
Differences in the relevant geographical market for touring and non-touring theatres are considered. We find that the nature
of the artistic output affects demand. Theatregoers prefer large productions (in terms of cast size), plays by Dutch-speaking
playwrights and revivals of old productions. Own price and consumer income have the expected negative and positive effects
on attendance. Observed trends toward a decreasing proportion of new plays, an increasing presence of plays by Dutch-speaking
playwrights, and increasing consumer income had a stimulating effect on attendance. These trends have been offset, however,
by trends toward smaller cast sizes and higher ticket prices as well as by unobserved factors captured by time dummies. The
net result has been a considerable drop in attendance.
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Thomas Schøtt 《Minerva》1987,25(1-2):3-20
Conclusion I began with the hypothesis that the scientific productivity of a small country is promoted by the integration of research activities into the international scientific community. Integration occurs both individually and institutionally. The integration of individual research workers into the informal international movement of knowledge about problems, techniques and sharing in a particular branch of science, stimulates them and offers them a better chance of recognition by competent peers for their contributions to science. It thereby strengthens their incentive to exert themselves to the utmost in research. Institutional integration as the modelling of institutional arrangements in the small country on foreign academic organisation also increases productivity. In these ways, small countries can avoid being shunted to the periphery of world science. 相似文献