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on Cultural Economics |
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Issue of 2026–06–29
six papers chosen by Roberto Zanola, Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale |
| By: | Charles Ambrosino (PACTE - Pacte, Laboratoire de sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes - IEPG - Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes); 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); Dominique Sagot-Duvauroux (GRANEM - Groupe de Recherche Angevin en Economie et Management - UA - Université d'Angers - Institut Agro Rennes Angers - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement) |
| Abstract: | How do artistic and cultural activities interact with urban dynamics? Drawing on the theoretical proposition defined in the first volume of the book, this second volume offers a methodological and empirical approach to test the artistic scene perspective. Based on five international case studies, it provides answers to the questions raised by the urban dynamics driven by arts and culture. It reveals the diversity of characteristics and developments of artistic scenes, as well as the many related cultural, urban, and social issues: cultural participation, gentrification, commodification, etc. An essential tool for understanding the links between art, culture, and urban development, intended for researchers, students, and professionals in the fields of culture and urban planning. |
| Keywords: | Art, Case studies, Methodology, Scene, City, Culture |
| Date: | 2026 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05641829 |
| By: | Charles Ambrosino (PACTE - Pacte, Laboratoire de sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes - IEPG - Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes); 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); Dominique Sagot-Duvauroux (GRANEM - Groupe de Recherche Angevin en Economie et Management - UA - Université d'Angers - Institut Agro Rennes Angers - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement) |
| Abstract: | How do artistic and cultural activities interact with urban dynamics? This first volume of the book offers a cross-disciplinary and in-depth exploration of the arts in the city by examining the issues of spatial agglomeration, narratives, and spillover effects surrounding the presence of the arts in urban spaces. It develops a theoretical approach based on the concept of the scene to move beyond the "creative city" model. An essential tool for understanding the links between art, culture, and urban development, intended for researchers, students, and professionals in the fields of culture and urban planning. |
| Keywords: | Art, Agglomeration, Narratives, Urban atmosphere, Scene, City, Culture |
| Date: | 2026 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05641822 |
| By: | Valerio Fedele Addis; Giuseppe Attanasi; Giovanni Di Bartolomeo; Michele Mariella; Valentina Peruzzi |
| Abstract: | We study whether a large language model can reliably evaluate human creativity in constrained, innovation-like tasks. Using expert-generated creative outputs from a validated experiment with workers in cultural and creative industries, we embed ChatGPT as an evaluator and benchmark its assessments against expert human judgments obtained through the Consensual Assessment Technique. In Study 1, we show that AI-based creativity evaluations exhibit internal consistency comparable to that of expert judges across repeated and independent runs, even under conservative scenarios. Replacing a human judge with an AI evaluator does not reduce inter-rater reliability across drawing, mathematical, and verbal tasks. In Study 2, we find that AI evaluations are systematically structured along fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration, with task-specific weighting of these dimensions. Overall, the results indicate that AI can serve as a reliable and structured evaluator of creativity in constrained innovation environments. |
| Keywords: | Artificial intelligence, Creativity evaluation, Constrained creativity tasks, Consensual Assessment Technique, Cultural-and-creative-industry professionals, Innovation-like tasks |
| JEL: | O31 D83 M14 C91 |
| Date: | 2026 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ter:wpaper:00197 |
| By: | Tahsin Mehdi; Rupert Allen; Josip Lesica; Jenny Watt |
| Abstract: | A central concern surrounding recent advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is their potential to replace human labour, especially in the domain of content creation, such as the production of music, videos, images and text in the cultural industries. However, there is a lack of information regarding how AI may impact workers in these industries. This article attempts to fill this information gap by examining potential occupational exposure to and complementarity with AI in selected cultural industries in Canada. A key finding is that occupations in cultural industries could potentially be more exposed to AI-related job transformation, facing a higher potential for AI substitution compared with jobs in other industries. However, jobs in cultural industries also have a greater potential to be augmented by AI. Although some evidence suggests relatively slower employment growth in certain cultural industries since the mass availability of generative AI tools in late 2022, it remains unclear whether the observed changes are solely driven by AI or result from the cumulative effects of pre-existing trends and other competing economic forces. |
| Keywords: | potential occupational exposure, artificial intelligence, selected cultural industries |
| JEL: | J23 M21 |
| Date: | 2026–03–25 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:stc:stcp8e:202600300003e |
| By: | Giuseppe Attanasi; Giuseppe Ciccarone; Giovanni Di Bartolomeo; Valentina Peruzzi; Marilena Vecco |
| Abstract: | This paper studies how gender and reputation jointly shape valuation in the visual art market. We develop a microfounded benchmark auction model in which artwork prices depend on artists' effort, reputation, and gender. The model predicts that the price discount for female artists should decline with reputation and become negligible at sufficiently high levels of reputation. We test these predictions using two complementary approaches. First, we examine 67, 615 auction sales by 686 living contemporary artists over 1996-2014. Conditional on rich artwork and artist characteristics, nationality fixed effects, and year-by-location auction fixed effects, we find that works by female artists sell for less than comparable works by male artists, but this discount shrinks substantially with formal recognition and market standing. Second, we conduct a pre-registered experiment in a controlled auction setting to isolate demand-side valuation mechanisms. The experimental evidence confirms the same pattern: bids for works attributed to female artists are lower on average, and the gap narrows sharply when the artist is presented as highly reputed. |
| Keywords: | Gender inequality, reputation, art markets, auction data, theory-driven experiment |
| JEL: | J16 D44 D82 C91 Z11 |
| Date: | 2026 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ter:wpaper:00196 |
| By: | Kasprzak, Przemysław |
| Abstract: | The study offers a multidimensional account of the culture of spectacle in the United States, Poland and Europe, examined through the sociology of popular music, the economics of mass events, media, politics, sport, advertising, sponsorship and audience expectations. It discusses major American mega-events such as the Super Bowl Halftime Show, the Grammy Awards and Coachella, alongside European and Polish models of cultural organization, funding, infrastructure and event production. The work shows how contemporary spectacle culture is shaped by a complex interplay of market, social, media-related and institutional factors. |
| Date: | 2026–05–30 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:q6859_v1 |