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Quality Investment and Price Formation in the Performing Arts Sector: A Spatial Analysis

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Traub, Stefan

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In this paper, we present a spatial model of the public provision of the performing arts. Agents behave boundedly rational. Art directors set performance quality according to their aspiration levels. While taking into account the spatial distribution of the population, administrative directors in calculating ticket prices ignore that they compete with neighboring performing arts organization (PAOs) for audience. The model is tested empirically using a spatial autoregressive (SAR) model with a complete data set of German PAOs and cities. Our data support the model and help to explain the size and distribution of losses in the public performing arts sector. --

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Paper provided by Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Department of Economics in its series Economics Working Papers with number 2005,16.

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Keywords: Performing Arts; Local Public Goods; Quality; Spatial Competition; Bounded Rationality;

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Z10 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - General
H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
R59 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - Regional Government Analysis - - - Other

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  1. Kristien Werck & Bruno Heyndels & Benny Geys, 2008. "The impact of ‘central places’ on spatial spending patterns: evidence from Flemish local government cultural expenditures," Journal of Cultural Economics, Springer, vol. 32(1), pages 35-58, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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