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on Cultural Economics |
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Issue of 2026–01–05
six papers chosen by Roberto Zanola, Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale |
| By: | Basile Michel (PLACES - EA 4113 - PLACES - Laboratoire de géographie et d'aménagement - CY - CY Cergy Paris Université, ESO - Espaces et Sociétés - UNICAEN - Université de Caen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - UM - Le Mans Université - UA - Université d'Angers - UR2 - Université de Rennes 2 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Nantes Univ - IGARUN - Institut de Géographie et d'Aménagement Régional de l'Université de Nantes - Nantes Université - pôle Humanités - Nantes Univ - Nantes Université - Institut Agro Rennes Angers - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement) |
| Abstract: | Malgré la multiplication récente d'initiatives « vertes », le secteur musical reste pour l'instant imbriqué dans la société capitaliste et mondialisée qui cause d'importantes dégradations socio-environnementales. Éclairant les enjeux écologiques dans la musique, cet article interroge une autre voie, pour repenser de façon systémique le paradigme insoutenable, et pourtant dominant, du star-système. L'analyse de deux exemples – le festival La P'Art Belle et le groupe Aïla (France) – montre que des alternatives sont possibles, portées par des acteurs et actrices de la musique qui s'engagent dans une démarche écologique transversale de décroissance, de changement d'échelle et d'ancrage local. Malgré certaines limites, ces expérimentations contribuent, par leur empreinte territoriale, à la vitalité culturelle, à la cohésion sociale et à la transformation écologique des territoires. |
| Keywords: | territory, star system, degrowth, local anchoring, music indutries, music, ecology, musique, écologie, territoire, décroissance, ancrage local, star-système |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05396298 |
| By: | Mathilde Maurel (Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne, CNRS, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne); Lili Onillon (Laboratoire d'Excellence "Dynamiques Territoriales et Spatiales" - LabEx DynamiTe); Thomas Vendryes (ENS Paris-Saclay) |
| Abstract: | This paper preliminary results from the MIACE project, based on a survey of 62 individuals around an environmental art exhibition held in June 2025 in Excideuil, France. Comparing visitors and non-visitors, we explore whether artistic exposure can influence environmental consciousness and contribute to understanding how art may shape perceptions and attitudes |
| Keywords: | Environmental consciousness; Environmental art; Impact evaluation; Behavioral change; A esthetic experience |
| JEL: | Q59 Q51 D91 Z11 C93 |
| Date: | 2025–12 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:mse:cesdoc:25024 |
| By: | Sukjin Han; Kyungho Lee |
| Abstract: | We study the competitive and welfare effects of copyright in creative industries in the face of cost-reducing technologies such as generative artificial intelligence. Creative products often feature unstructured attributes (e.g., images and text) that are complex and high-dimensional. To address this challenge, we study a stylized design product—fonts—using data from the world’s largest font marketplace. We construct neural network embeddings to quantify unstructured attributes and measure visual similarity in a manner consistent with human perception. Spatial regression and event-study analyses demonstrate that competition is local in the visual characteristics space. Building on this evidence, we develop a structural model of supply and demand that incorporates embeddings and captures product positioning under copyright-based similarity constraints. Our estimates reveal consumers’ heterogeneous design preferences and producers’ cost-effective mimicry advantages. Counterfactual analyses show that copyright protection can raise consumer welfare by encouraging product relocation, and that the optimal policy depends on the interaction between copyright and cost-reducing technologies. |
| Date: | 2025–04–02 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:bri:uobdis:25/816 |
| By: | Jansson, Fredrik |
| Abstract: | Culture is not just traits but a dynamic system of interdependent beliefs, practices and artefacts embedded in cognitive, social and material structures. Culture evolves as these entities interact, generating path dependence, attractor states and tension, with long-term stability punctuated by rapid systemic transformations. Cultural learning and creativity is modelled as coherence-seeking information processing: individuals filter, transform and recombine input in light of prior acquisitions and dissonance reduction, thereby creating increasingly structured worldviews. Higher-order traits such as goals, skills, norms and cognitive gadgets act as emergent metafilters that regulate subsequent selection by defining what counts as coherent. Together, these filtering processes self-organise into epistemic niches, echo chambers, polarised groups and institutions that channel information flows and constrain future evolution. In this view, LLMs and recommender algorithms are products of cultural embeddings that now act back on cultural systems by automated filtering and recombination of information, reshaping future dynamics of cultural systems. |
| Date: | 2026–01–02 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:drmkw_v1 |
| By: | Flintz, Joschka |
| Abstract: | This study examines the determinants of away fan attendance in Germany's top three football divisions over six seasons and assesses its impact on match outcomes. The analysis reveals that, after conditioning on home and away teams, distance and kick-off time are the most important predictors of away fan turnout. Moreover, away support is found to have a statistically significant positive effect on team performance: an additional 1, 000 away fans is associated with a 4.6% to 7.5% increase in the probability of the away team winning or drawing the match. These findings suggest that league organizers should consider fan logistics and the potential influence of away fan presence when scheduling fixtures, in order to maintain sporting equity. At the club level, the results underscore the value of fostering fan engagement and indicate that strategies aimed at increasing away attendance may contribute to improved sporting outcomes. |
| Abstract: | Diese Studie untersucht die Determinanten der Auswärtsfanbeteiligung in den drei höchsten deutschen Fußballligen über sechs Spielzeiten hinweg und bewertet deren Auswirkungen auf die Spielergebnisse. Die Analyse zeigt, dass nach Berücksichtigung der Heim- und Auswärtsmannschaften die Entfernung und die Anstoßzeit die wichtigsten Prädiktoren für die Auswärtsfanbeteiligung sind. Darüber hinaus hat die Unterstützung der Auswärtsfans einen statistisch signifikanten positiven Einfluss auf die Leistung der Mannschaft: 1.000 zusätzliche Auswärtsfans erhöhen die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass die Auswärtsmannschaft das Spiel gewinnt oder unentschieden spielt, um 4, 6 % bis 7, 5 %. Diese Ergebnisse legen nahe, dass die Liga-Organisatoren bei der Spielplanerstellung die Logistik für die Fans und den potenziellen Einfluss der Anwesenheit von Auswärtsfans berücksichtigen sollten, um die sportliche Fairness zu wahren. Auf Vereinsebene unterstreichen die Ergebnisse den Wert der Förderung des Fanengagements und deuten darauf hin, dass Strategien zur Steigerung der Auswärtsbesucherzahlen zu besseren sportlichen Ergebnissen beitragen können. |
| Keywords: | Sport economics, Away fan attendance, Team performance, Spatio-temporal analysis |
| JEL: | C23 Z20 |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:rwirep:333895 |
| By: | Prochazka, Jakub; Zhou, Jing; Coita, Ioana-Florina; Akhtar, Shumi |
| Abstract: | This report describes a computational reproduction of Lee and Chung's (2024) paper, which examined whether using ChatGPT (GPT‑3.5) enhances creativity in adults compared to web-search assistance or no assistance. The authors presented six randomized controlled experiments showing that ChatGPT-assisted responses were assessed as significantly more creative (effect sizes ranging from Cohen's d = 0.32 to 1.88). These effects were robust across diverse tasks and contexts. We first computationally reproduced all the main results using the original dataset and code, obtaining the same results as those presented by the authors in their paper. During the reproduction process, we identified two minor coding errors and one typographical error in the original table, none of which affected the substantive conclusions. Second, we performed a recreate reproduction for the main analysis in Experiments 1 and 3 by writing new R code. Our results again matched the results presented in the original paper. Overall, based on our analyses, the study is fully computationally reproducible from raw data, although only with access to the original code, due to undocumented cleaning steps, some non-described exclusion criteria, and missing codebooks. Several analyses in the original paper showed that ideas generated by ChatGPT are rated as similarly creative regardless of whether people modify them or not. We contributed to this conclusion by introducing a new robustness check using response time as a proxy for human effort in modifying ChatGPT outputs. Using data from Experiment 3, we found no significant correlation between response time and creativity in the ChatGPT condition (r = −.079, p = .449) and no moderating effect of response time on the influence of using ChatGPT on creativity. This suggests that human effort does not incrementally improve creativity beyond ChatGPT's contribution. Taken together, our findings support the original claim that using ChatGPT increases creativity regardless of the human input. |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:i4rdps:274 |