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Book SynopsisThis volume contains a large selection of the invited papers given at the Twelfth Conference of the Association of Cultural Economics International, Rotterdam, 2002, and are grouped into three sections: the cultural industries (movies, television, media), historical aspects (art and music), and policy issues including the management heritage.
Table of Contents1. Motion picture directors: luck, talent and rewards (A. De Vany). 2. Independent film finance, Pre-sale agreements, and the distribution of film earnings (F.W. Rusco, W.D. Walls). 3. Are they all crazy or just risk averse? Some movie puzzles and possible solutions (S.A. Ravid). 4. Measuring the cultural discount in the price of exported U.S. television programs (S. McFadyen, C. Hoskins, A. Finn). 5. Attitudes toward advertising and price competition in the press industry (J.J. Gabszewicz, D. Laussel, N. Sonnac). 6. Art dealers in Holland (J.M. Montias). 7. Auctioning paintings in late seventeenth-century London: rules, segmentation and prices in an emergent market (N. De Marchi). 8. Music as a commodity: creating a market in eighteenth-century London (R. McGuinnes). 9. The test of time: does 20th century American art survive? (W. Landes). 10. The credibility of cultural economists' advice to governments (A. Peacock). 11. Quantifying quality and other problems (T. Mason). 12. Who owns cultural goods? The case of built heritage (F. Benhamou). 13. The relationship between regional and national policies in the arts (R. Rizzo). 14. Making a list: information as a tool of historic preservation (J.M. Schuster).
