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on Cultural Economics |
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Issue of 2025–07–28
seven papers chosen by Roberto Zanola, Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale |
| By: | Ramon Caminal |
| Abstract: | This paper presents a theoretical framework for stuyding language choices in cultural and media markets. From a positive point of view, the analysis emphasizes that the share of consumption in the minority language in a specific product category crucially depends on the availability of content with a local focus (targetting local consumers). We argue that such a prediction can help rationalize the large dispersion in the presence of the minority language across different product categories widely observed. In the case of Catalonia, we document that the percentage of consumption in the minority language (Catalan) provided by private firms is quite large for theater, negligible for cinema and television, and intermediate for books and radio. Differences in the relative weight of content with a local focus can account for a substantial portion of this dispersion. From a normative point of view, we show that market forces tend to provide too few products in the minority language relative to the social optimum (insufficient linguistic diversity), even when products with a local focus abound. Public policies fostering local content and the use of the minority language are also discussed. |
| Keywords: | language, content, business stealing, better preference matching |
| JEL: | D43 L13 L82 |
| Date: | 2025–04 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:bge:wpaper:1485 |
| By: | Javed, Umair; Najmi, Muhammad Shahwali; Haroon, Muhammad Hasaan; Ahmed, Hiba |
| Abstract: | Old Lahore traditional markets play a prime place in the city's identity by reflecting the practices and customs over generations. The markets represent far more than a commercial center, since they embody the dynamic interaction of cultural values and historical practice. As Geertz would write, "markets are webs of economic relationships" and are also the depositories of social and cultural values (Geertz). The operations of these markets are characterized by their crude trading practices, the nature of products sold, and the personalized relationships between traders and customers, which have remained relatively unchanged with time. This research is interdisciplinary, combining sociology, anthropology, history, heritage, and economics to analyze the relationship between heritage conservation efforts and the continuity of traditional market practices. |
| Keywords: | Traditional Markets Heritage Conservation Urban Preservation Resistance to Conservation Walled City of Lahore Socio-economic Resilience Informal Economies Walled City of Lahore Authority (WCLA) Old Lahore Azam Market Akbari Mandi Kashmiri Gate Lohari Gate Union Governance Punjab Heritage Bazaar Economy (Clifford Geertz) Political Economy of Bazaars (Keshavarzian) Informal Credit Networks Clientelization Self-regulation Mechanisms Cultural Continuity Heritage vs. Livelihood Conservation-led Displacement Urban Modernization |
| JEL: | Z13 |
| Date: | 2024–12–18 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:125337 |
| By: | Antoci, Natalia; Arcudi, Noemi; Brigandì, Giorgia; Capitanio, Gianna; Diaconu, Valentina; Lombardo, Aurora Mariapia; Sauta, Antonella; Gitto, Lara |
| Abstract: | Introduzione di Lara Gitto Rural Tourism Development Trends and Perspectives in the Republic of Moldova di Natalia Antoci L’UNESCO e le “sette meraviglie” del mondo moderno di Valentina Diaconu L’overtourism e il caso di Venezia a confronto con la Moldavia di Giorgia Brigandì Valorizzare una destinazione turistica nell’Italia meridionale: l’esempio di Reggio Calabria e il suo patrimonio culturale di Noemi Arcudi Differenze e similitudini tra la cultura e le tradizioni culturali moldave e calabresi di Aurora Mariapia Lombardo. Tradizioni a confronto: Made in Italy e Made in Moldova di Antonella Sauta Un viaggio tra i vigneti: esplorando le differenze tra i vini italiani e moldavi di Gianna Capitanio Conclusioni di Lara Gitto e Natalia Antoci |
| Keywords: | Beni culturali; tradizioni popolari; destinazioni turistiche; Italia; Moldavia. |
| JEL: | O19 P27 Q26 R58 Z13 Z19 |
| Date: | 2025–07–03 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:125161 |
| By: | Karol Jan Borowiecki (University of Southern Denmark); Martin Hørlyk Kristensen (University of Southern Denmark); Marc T. Law (University of Vermont) |
| Abstract: | How does family background shape entry into elite professions, and how do changes in training regimes influence the allocation of talent? We study dynasties in Western classical composition, a setting where family ties historically influenced access, and where rich biographical data allow us to trace selection dynamics over multiple centuries. Using data on over 16, 000 composers from 450 CE to the present, we identify dynastic ties from Grove Music Online and measure prominence using the length of each composer’s biographical entry. Dynastic composers are between 14 and 21 percent less prominent than their non-dynastic peers, conditional on country and birth cohort. This discount is driven by descendants; founders are as prominent as non-dynasts, while descendants under-perform both. Similar results hold using archival manuscript data from R´epertoire International des Sources Musicales, suggesting the pattern is not an artifact of editorial selection. In the twentieth century, the pattern reverses: dynasts become more prominent, consistent with a shift from informal, family-based entry to standardized selection via conservatory training. Supporting this interpretation, we show that dynasts are less likely to have formal training mentioned in their biographies, and that the dynasty discount is smaller in regions and periods where conservatories were present. Our findings suggest that credentialing reforms may have influenced patterns of elite formation and talent allocation, offering broader insight into the relationship between human capital access and long-run economic performance. |
| Keywords: | talent allocation, dynasties, human capital transmission, conservatories, classical composers |
| JEL: | O15 J24 J62 I25 N30 Z11 |
| Date: | 2025–06 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cue:wpaper:awp-03-2025 |
| By: | David, Géraldine; Li, Yuexin (Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management); Oosterlinck, Kim; Renneboog, Luc (Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management) |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:tiu:tiutis:11f037eb-5454-46ee-82a8-7e4ca9b00129 |
| By: | Li, Yuexin (Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management); Renneboog, Luc (Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management) |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:tiu:tiutis:0eb5be67-05f4-4eb0-8bbf-7d480a2d0156 |
| By: | Kvasin, Michael; Lamm, Claus; Martins, Mauricio (University of Vienna) |
| Abstract: | Germany's recent history has been characterized by economic and political crises, fascism, and two global wars. While obstacles existed until the final establishment of democracy, the underlying cultural preferences remain understudied. Here, we compiled a corpus of German fiction and analyzed the expression of cooperation and tolerance, replicating previous studies on democratization. We developed bag-of-words dictionaries measuring multiple facets of cooperation and tolerance to track their diachronic trends through 1890 and 1945 across the German Empire, Weimar Republic, and Third Reich. We tested whether cooperation and tolerance 1) increased over time, 2) preceded democratic shifts, and 3) followed socioeconomic performance (proxied by real wages and GDP per Capita). Generally, those hypotheses were not confirmed. First, while Openness increased over time, other proxies did not. Second, unlike shifts in England and France, cultural changes followed (not preceded) regime transitions, with Sympathy increasing during democracy and Prosociality and Positivity increasing during autocracy. Finally, while real wages and GDPpc may predict Sympathy and Prosociality, these results lacked robustness. We discuss how these findings might have been impacted by the exogenous character of Weimar’s democratization, the world wars, and data availability bias due to censorship and a lack of digitized literature from the Nazi-era. |
| Date: | 2025–06–23 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:osfxxx:un26x_v1 |