13th International Conference on Cultural Economics

Preliminary Program, ACEI 2004
Chicago, Illinois, USA
University of Illinois at Chicago

Wednesday, June 2, 2004

ACEI Executive Board Meeting

5:00 Registration opens
6:00 Opening Reception at Gallery 400, UIC

Thursday, June 3, 2004

8:00 Registration opens

8:30 Opening Plenary

Presiding: Charles M. Gray, president-elect, ACEI
Welcome: City of Chicago
University of Illinois at Chicago

Presidential address: Victor Ginsburgh, president, ACEI

10:30 Break

10:15 Plenary: Economics and Arts Management—The Managers’ Perspectives

Presiding: Stanley Fish, Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, UIC

Rich Dowsek, Lyric Opera of Chicago
Gail Kalver, Hubbard Street Dance Company
David Hawkanson, Steppenwolf Theatre
Joe Cerqua, Cerqua Rivera Dance Company
TBA, Art Institute of Chicago

11:45 Lunch (on your own)

1:00 Concurrent Sessions I

A. Arts consumers

Carlos Ulibarri, “Aesthetic Learning from Arts Goods”
A. Sisto and R. Zanola, “Rational Addiction to Cinema and Television? A Dynamic Panel Analysis of Italian Regions”
P. Joan Poor and Brian Morrison, “The United States Film Industry: Are Subjective Star Power and Film Critic Quality Ratings Significant Indicators of Box-Office Revenue”
Liam Delaney, “Eliciting Household and Individual Willingness to Pay: Theory and an Empirical Application”

B. Policy Issues I

Elisabetta Lazzaro, “Policy Effects on Music Education in Belgium: How do Tuition Fees Matter?”
Carlos Enrique Guzmán Cárdenas, “The Economic Dynamics of the Culture in Venezuela”
Pier Luigi Belvisi, “Combining Tax Revenues and Individual Preferences in Financing the Cultural Sector”
Tom Smith, “The Impact of Government Funding on Private Contributions to Nonprofit Arts Organizations: The Case for Theater, Opera, and Dance in the United States”

C. The Business of Art I

Adriana Neligan, “Public Funding and Repertoire Decisions in the Performing Arts: An Econometric Analysis for the German Public Theatre Sector”
Carla Stalling Huntington, “Mitigation of the Cost Disease in Professional Ballet—Three International Cases”
Timothy King, “The Merit Consequences of Alternative Sources of Extra-market Opera Financing”
Agust Einarsson, “The Economic Contribution of SMEs within the Cultural Sector in a Small Society in a Global Context”

D. Cinema I

Adam Finn, Stuart McFadyen, Allan Brown, and Colin Hoskins, “Recoupment on Subsidised Feature Films and Television Programs: The Canadian Experience”
Emmanuel Cocq, “The French Film Policy: A Need for Reforms”
Sang-Oh Lim, “The Boom in the Korean Cinema Industry: Economic, Cultural and Institutional Factors”
Françoise Benhamou, Pierre Garrouste, and Stéphane Saussier, “Two-Part Share Contracts in the Motion Picture Industry: A Neo-Institutionalist Interpretation”

2:30 Break

2:45 Concurrent Sessions II

A. Arts, Impact, and Value

Julia Rothenberg, “The Impact of 9/11 on New York’s Art World”
Pedro Costa, “Cultural Activities and urban Regeneration Policies: A Comparison between two Different Cases in the City of Lisbon”
Alexander B. Dolgin, “Devising Market-Based Mechanism to Value Quality of Replicable Symbolic Goods: Theory, Experimental Test, and Theoretical Implications”
Charles M. Gray, “The Arts as Economic Growth Engine: Extensions and Implications”

B. Electronic Media

Arthur C. Brooks and Jan I Ondrich, “How Public is Public Television?”
Magali Jaoul and Marian Vidal, “A Decomposition of Televisual Audience Size According to Program’s Characteristics: An Econometric Approach on French Data”
Celestino Spada, “Subjects and Exchange Values in Radio and Television Communications: A Contribution to the Economics of Broadcasting”
Anna P. Della Valle and Richard J. MacDonald, “Recent Developments in US Legislation Regarding Media Concentration and Cross Ownership”

C. Cultural Heritage I

Xavier Greffe and Sylvie Pflieger, “Is Heritage a Lever for Economic and Social Development?”
Douglas S. Noonan, “A Political Economy of Cultural National Parks”
Yasmin Yalil, Walter Santagata, and Arif Tabassum, “Material, Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage for Sustainable Development Strategies”
Patrizia Riganti, Annamaria Nese, and Ugo Colombino, “Eliciting Public Preferences for Managing Cultural Heritage Sites: Evidence from a Case Study on the Temples of Paestum”

D. Arts Consumers

Hugo Verdaasdonk, “Effects of Consumers’ Experience with Books on Perceptual Mappings of New Releases”
Donata Favaro and Carlofilippo Frateschi, “Musical Tastes, Household Effects, and Social Interactions”
Alan Collins and Chris Hand, “Analyzing Moviegoing Demand: An Individual-Level Cross-Sectional Approach”
Mercedes Garcia-Diez, Juan Prieto-Rodriguez, and Victor Fernández-Blanco, “Building the Public of the Future: Teenagers and the Consumption of Cultural Goods”


4:15 Adjourn

6:00 Conference Banquet
Friday, June 4, 2004

8:30 Plenary: Economics and Arts Management—Business Economists’ Perspectives

Presiding: Charles M. Gray

Panelists: Sharon Oster, School of Management, Yale University
James Brickley, Simon School of Business, University of Rochester
TBA

10:00 Break

10:15 Concurrent Sessions III

A. Museums I

Volker Kirchberg, “Measuring and Analyzing Differences between Intent and Realization: Planned versus Realized Visits to Museums”
Luis Palma Martos, Sergio Márquez Peláez, and Gloria Franco Casillas, “The Endowment of Cultural Equipment: The Case of Local Museums of the Province of Seville”
Victor Ginsburgh and Israel Zang, “Sharing the Income of a Museum Pass Program”
Enzo Varricchio, “History of the Museum and of the Museum Organization”

B. Topics in the Industrial Organization of Culture

Peter Tschmuck, “Privatizing the White Horses”
Sara Unzueta Esteban, “Sustained Value Creation: Synergies Between Art & Business”
Jonathan Gander, Alison Rieple, and Adrian Haberberg, “Exploring the Management of Resources: How Cellular Biology Helps Redescribe Alliance Management Within the Music Industry”
David Throsby, “An Artistic Production Function”

C. Media and the Web

Gillian Doyle and Simon Frith, “Methodological Issues in Cultural and Media Economics Research”
Ingrid Gottschalk and Andreas Klotz, “Getting Back to Harmony: Consumer-Based Propositions to the Music Industry”
Paul Stepan, “Free Access Doesn’t Mean for Free—Problems and Uncertainty of Downloading Movies”
Gary Graham and Glenn Jardaker, “Beating Them at Their Own Game: the Cultural Economics of the P2P Movement and the Gift Economy in the Music Industry”

D. Policy Issues II

Michael Rushton, “Who Supports Increased Public Funding for the Arts? Evidence from a Referendum in Metropolitan Detroit”
Gaetana Trupiano, “Financing the Culture in Italy”
Santiago Álvarez-Garcia, Victor Fernández Blanco, and Juan Prieto Rodriguez, “Tax Expenditures and Public Support for the Arts in the European Union: Is there Harmony or Disagreement?”
José Escaleira, “Subsidy Shares as Market Shares: Explaining Public Financial Assistance Distribution in Portugal”


11:45 Lunch (on your own)

1:00 Concurrent Sessions IV

A. Museums II

Paola Dubini and Federica Viganò, “Knowledge Management as Core Business for a Museum: The case Museo e Istituto di Storia della Scienza in Florence”
Luc Champarnaud and Frédéric Jouneau, “The Travelling Artistic Patrimony”
Christian Hjorth-Andersen, “The Danish Museum System”
Vanda L. Zammuner, Francesca Gervasoni, and Valentina Viscardi, “Motivations, Perceptions, and Ideals of Museum and Temporary Exhibit Visitors, and their Relation to Information Sources, Fruition Characteristics, and Visitors’ Demographics”

B. Intellectual Property

Ruth Towse, “Copyright and Markets in the Cultural Industries”
Christian Barrère and Véronique Chossat, “Intellectual Property Rights and Creativity-Based Goods Heritages”
Roberto Cellini, Tiziana Cuccia, and Walter Santagata, “Collective Trademarks in Cultural Districts: Individual Choices and Policy Decisions”
Dominique Sagot-Duvauroux, “The Economics of Copyright from Henry Charles Carey (1973-1897) about ‘Letters on International Copyright’”

C. Cultural Tourism

Stephen Creigh-Tyte, Jonathan Gillham, and Gary Waite, “Productivity in the Tourism and Creative Sectors of the UK Economy”
Patrizia Riganti, Anna Alberini, and Alberto Longo, “Using Conjoint Analysis for Studying Tourism Congestion in Cities of Art: The Case of Venice Arsenale”
J.D. Snowball and K.G. Willis, “Can Choice Experiments be used to Value Cultural Events Successfully? Initial Research at the South African National Arts Festival”
Mary Brew and Emma Dillon, “Cultural Tourism and Economic Development: Regeneration of Rural Areas in the West of Ireland”

D. Arts Labor Markets

Ritva Mitchell, “Knowing Where Cultural Work is Going?”
Elish Kelly, “Application of Concentration Theories to Explain Movement of Artists”
Enzo Varricchio, “Legal and Economic Profiles of the Profession of Artist”
Hans Abbing, “Living on the Edge”

E. Theatre

Steven J. Tepper and Gabriel Rossman, “New, Diverse, and Sticky—Measuring Innovation in American Theatre”
David Maddison, “Increasing Returns to Information and the Survival of Broadway Theatre”
Knut Løyland and Vidar Ringstad, “Norwegian Subsidized Theatres—A Greek Tragedy of our Times?”
Daniel Urrutiaguer, “French Theatrical Decentralisation and Local
Development”


2:30 Break

2:45 Concurrent Sessions V

A. Cultural Heritage II

Lina Lourenço and João Rebelo, “Cultural Heritage Policy: The Reinforced Role of the State? The Alto Douro Wine Region World Heritage Site”
Massimo Finocchiaro Castro and Ilde Rizo, “The Measurement of Performance in Heritage Conservation: The Case of Sicily”
P. Joan Poor, Julia King, and William Howard Grube-O’Brien, “A Multi-Use American Civil War Heritage Site: Do Visitors Value the Site’s Cultural Attributes in the Presence of Recreational Amenities?”
Anna Mignosa, “Bureaucracy and Cultural Heritage Policies”

B. Cultural Policy III

Lluis Bonet, “The Effectiveness of Governmental Tools to Support the Audiovisual Industry”
Thomas Heskia, “Tax Incentives in the Audiovisual Sector—Origins, Concepts and Outcomes: A Critical Survey
Juan Prieto-Rodriguez, Desiderio Romero-Jordán, and José Felix Sanz-Sanz, “Is a Tax Cut on Cultural Goods Consumption Actually Desirable? A Microsimulation Analysis Applied to Spain”
J.D. Snowball, “Art for the Masses? Justification for the Public Support of the Arts in Developing Countries: Arts Festivals in South Africa”

C. Cultural Districts and Markets

Antonio Paolo Russo and Giovanna Segre, “Cultural Products and Sustainable Markets: The Case of Glass Art in Murano”
Luciana Lazzeretti and Tommaso Cinti, “Cultural Cluster and Cultural District: The Cluster of Florence Museums”
Michele Trimarchi, Stefania Saltini, and Mariangela Lavanga, “Cultural Districts: An Analysis of the Italian Situation”
Carla Bodo, TBA

D. Visual Arts I

John O’Hagan and Elish Kelly, “Identifying and Ranking the Most Important Artists: Methodology Used and Some Initial Results”
A. Scorcu and R. Zanola, “To Be (Masterpiece) or Not To Be: Does a ‘No-Masterpiece Effect’ Exist?”
Clare McAndrew and Rex Thompson, “Are Presale Art Auction Estimates Unbiased? Some Affirming Evidence”
Marilena Vecco, “Selection Criteria in an International Art Exhibition: The Venice Biennale”

4:15 Break

4:30 Concurrent Sessions VI

A. Economic Impact II

Patricia Dewey, “The Cultural Dimension of Economic Development in the Pacific Northwest: A Conceptual Framework”
Patrizia Riganti and Peter Nijkamp, “Valuing Cultural Heritage Benefits to Urban and Rebional Development”
Bruno Bernardi, Claudio Pizzi, and Marilena Vecco, “Expectations and Evaluation of the Services of Exhibitions”
João Rebelo, Artur Cristóvão, and Lina Lourenço, “Who is the Public of Serious Music Festivals? The Experience of a Festival in a Rural Region of Portugal”

B. Cultural Capital I

Arjo Klamer, “Art as a Common Good”
Kenichi Kawasaki, “A Cultural Hegemony of Singapore among ASEAN Countries—Globalization and Cultural Policy”
Carlos Enrique Guzmán Cárdenas, “The Economic Dynamics of the Culture in Venezuela”
Sao-Wen Cheng, “Cultural Capital and Cultural Goods Stock Formation by Cultural Services Consumption and Cultural Goods Creation”

C. Marketing Culture

Angela Bargenda, “Patronage par excellence: A Survey of French and Anglo-Saxon Approaches to Cultural Sponsorship”
Gianfranco Mossetto, “The Market for Faith and the Marketing for Faith”
Manuel Cuidrado-García, Marta Frasquet-Deltoro, and Juan de Dios Montoro-Pons, “Relationship marketing in the Performing Arts: A Study from the Exhibitors’ Perspective”
Derrick Chong, “Emotional Selling: Philanthropy versus Network Marketing”

D. Arts Labor Markets II

Alper and Wassall, TBA
Kaija Rensujeff, “Constant Training, Temporary Employment, Multiple Job-Holding: Has Anything Changed Concerning Artists’ Labour Markets?”
Sue Daniels, “Just do it! Lipstick, Lipservice and Old Boys, Women in Leadership within the Cultural Sector—A UK Perspective”
Sari Karttunen, “Artistic Labour Force in Transformation: Finland Between 1950 and 2000”

6:00 Adjourn

Saturday, June 5, 2004

8:00 Registration opens

8:30 Concurrent Sessions VII

A. Visual Arts II

Michael Hutter, “Changing Prices and their Effects on Art Genres”
Dennis Farber, “Prices and Artistic Production: The Inside View”
Clare McAndrew and Rex Thompson, “Pre-Sale Estimates, Risk Analysis, and the Loan Quality of Fine Art”
Alessia Zorloni, “The Structural and Competitive Context of the Contemporary Art Market”

B. Cinema II

Françoise Benhamou and Nathalie Moureau, “Does the French Cultural Exception Policy Serve the Preference for Diversity? Evidence from Television and Motion Picture Industry”
John Sedgwick, “A Comparative Analysis of the Film Industries of the USA and Great Britain during the 1930s”
Dorothee Verdaasdonk, “The Impact of Film Festival Showings and Awards on Movie Performance at the Box Office: A Case Study from The Netherlands”
Victor Fernandez-Blanco, Juan Prieto-Rodriguez, and Luis Orea, “Movie Enthusiasts versus Cinemagoers in Spain: A Latent Class Model Approach”

C. UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity

Presiding: Christopher Maule, Carleton University, Canada

Panel: Lelio Lapadre, University of L'Aquila, Italy
Arpita Mukherjee, India
Franco Papandrea, University of Canberra, Australia

D. Issues of Methodology

Keith Acheson, "Interaction of trade and copyright effectiveness in a simple general
equilibrium model"
Susana Graça, “Economists and Artists: Who Listens to Whom?”
Roger A. McCain, “Cognitive Economics, Creativity, and the Economics of the Arts”
Olivier Gergaud and Florine Livat, “Team versus Individual Reputations: A Model of Interaction and some Empirical Evidence from Bordeaux Wines”

10:00 Break

10:15 Concurrent Sessions VIII

A. Visual Arts III—nation-specific arts markets

Douglas J. Hodgson, “Asset Pricing Theory and the Valuation of Canadian Paintings”
Richard J. Agnello, “Does the Art Market Follow the CAPM? The Case of US Paintings Sold at Auction”
Bronwyn Coate and Tim Fry, “A Comparison of the Prices for Australian Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Art at Auction: 1995-2003”
Lara Anatol King, “Economics of Fine Art Investment: Economic Analysis of Russian Fine Art Sales During 1990-2000”

B. Cultural Heritage III

Maurizio Caserta and Gesualdo Grimaldi, “The Messina Strait Bridge: The Building, the Monument, and the Myth”
Alexandros Apostolakis and Shabbar Jaffry, “A Flexible Specification for Modeling Discrete Choices for Heritage Attractions”
Christian Hjorth-Andersen, “The Danish Cultural Heritage: Economics and Politics”
Livia Madureira, “Traditional Farming Landscapes: A Cultural Heritage and a Development Resource for Interior Areas from Portugal”

C. Industrial Organization of Culture

Xavier Castañer and Guilhem Bascle, “Convergence Among and Between Media Industries: The Performance Consequences for US Telephone Companies”
Michael Pokorny and John Sedgwick, “An Economic History of Hollywood: 1929-1999”
Monika Mokre, “In the Beginning was the Word, or: How the European Commission Invented European Cultural Industries”

D. Culture in a Global Context

François Moreau and Stéphanie Peltier, “Cultural Diversity in the Movie Industry: A Cross-National Study”
Muriel De Vrièse, “Globalization and the Price of Art: National versus International Artists”
Pamela J. Smith, “International Trade in Visual Arts”

11:45 Lunch (on your own)

1:00 Concurrent Sessions IX

A. Economic Impact III

Geoffrey Brown, “Developing the Creative and Cultural Industries in Europe: Options for Action by the European Parliament and Other Institutions”
Trilce Navarrete, “The Value of the Arts in the Health Care System”
Luis César Herrero, José Ángel Sanz, Maria Devesa, Ana Bedate, and Maria José del Barrio, “Economic Impact of Cultural Macrofestivals: The Case Study of Salamanca 2002, European Capital of Culture”
Alene Valkanas, “Geographic and Political Distribution of Arts-Related Jobs in Illinois”


B. Public Policy IV

Bernard Bovier-Lapierre and Pierre Korzilius, “The Road to Salvation? Berlin’s New Opera Foundation and its Impact on Public Policy in the Cultural Sector in Germany”
G.K. Arora, “Determinants of Cultural Expenditures in Federal India: An Exploratory Study of States”
Takeo Nakatani, “Adam Smith on Cultural Economics: Some Fundamental Contributions”
Pedro Crespo, “Cultural Policies and the Use of Tax Breaks”

C. Cultural Capital II

Graeme Evans, “Revisiting Bourdieu—Cultural Capital and Capitals of Culture: Determinants of Arts Attenders”
Massimo Buscema, Pier Luigi Sacco, and Marco Sandri, “An Evolutionary Approach to Phenomenology of Style”
Victoria Ateca Amestoy, “Cultural Demand and Consumption Capital”
Michael O’Hare, “Implications of Cultural Abundance for Social Capital”

D. The Arts Industry

Adriana Neligan and Carol Newman, “The Applicability of Standard Economic Modeling to Data on Non-Profit Arts Organisations in Europe”
Kristien Werck, Mona Grinwis Plaat Stultjes, and Bruno Heyndels, “Baumol’s Suppressed Cost Disease and Programmatic Choices by Flemish Subsidized Theatres”
Adrian Ellis and Magnus von Wistinghausen, “Planning in a Cold Climate—Reassessing the Economic Model of the Cultural Nonprofit”
Stephen Boyle, “Corporatisation of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Orchestras”

2:30 Break

2:45 Closing Plenary

ACEI Business Meeting
Presentation of slate of officers
Passing of the gavel
Presentation on Vienna

4:15 That’s all, Folks! See you in Vienna.