Posts tagged with 'Working Paper'

Catalunya and its Cultural Industries: Policy Pitfalls and Policy Opportunities

The creation of a new governmental agency, even one that will be afforded some degree of independence from government, raises a wide variety of public policy questions. What policies will that agency pursue? How will they differ from the policies pursued by other agents of government? How will they complement one another? How will the ecology of government action change? But most important is the question: What will be accomplished?

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Is CVM an appropriate evaluation methodology to support national public policy and decision-making in the contemporary arts?

In this paper I would like to address broader questions to do with the kinds of cultural value and evaluation problems experienced by organisations like the Arts Council of Ireland, and some of the constraints that might limit the relevance of CVM from our perspective.

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Coherent and Incoherent Valuation: A Problem With Contingent Valuation of Cultural Amenities

I aim to describe a new problem with contingent valuation studies, and to suggest the nature and severity of the difficulties in surmounting it.1 The source of the problem, in brief, is category-bound thinking. When people explore particular problems in isolation, they normalize them by comparing them to a cognitively accessible comparison set, consisting of cases from the same basic category.

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Does Public Art Have Bequest Value?

Many people argue that public art contains an element of "bequest value": value derived by people today from the expected enjoyment of the art by future generations. This benefit, many believe, can only be uncovered vis-à-vis non-market valuation mechanisms such as contingent valuation (CV) surveys.

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Valuing Congestion Costs in the British Museum

Within the context of an empirical study undertaken using valuation techniques it is shown that the congestion cost posed by the marginal visitor to the British Museum is £8.05. Notwithstanding the argument that visits to the museum may possess external benefits, this points to the desirability of instigating charges for admission.

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