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on Cultural Economics |
| By: | Bruno S. Frey; Lasse Steiner |
| Abstract: | The UNESCO World Heritage List contains the 900 most treasured Sites of humanity’s culture and landscapes. The World Heritage List is beneficial where heritage sites are undetected, disregarded by national decision-makers, not commercially exploitable, and where national financial resources, political control and technical knowledge for conservation are inadequate. Alternatives such as the market and reliance on national conservation list are more beneficial where the cultural and natural sites are already popular, markets work well, and where inclusion in the List does not raise the destruction potential by excessive tourism, and in times of war or by terrorists. |
| Keywords: | Global public good; World Heritage; Cultural Certificates; Monuments; UNESCO |
| JEL: | Z11 D6 F5 H87 |
| Date: | 2010–04 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cra:wpaper:2010-11&r=cul |
| By: | Marianna Belloc; Samuel Bowles |
| Date: | 2010–04–27 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cla:levarc:661465000000000051&r=cul |
| By: | Bruno S. Frey; Lasse Steiner |
| Abstract: | Museums have many different goals beyond efficiency such as social equity, financial revenue, attracting donors and gaining international, regional or local prestige. Various pricing schemes are being discussed with the aim of reaching these goals. The classical ones are entry prices and free entry. The museum club solution or exit donations allow for various additional goals. Each scheme has clear advantages and disadvantages. We propose an innovative pricing instrument: Exit prices, which are charged according to the time spent in a museum. This scheme has a number of notable advantages, in particular the better choice available to the visitors, which increases their satisfaction. |
| Keywords: | Prices, museums; culture; donations; homo oeconomicus |
| JEL: | Z11 L30 H40 R32 L21 |
| Date: | 2010–04 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cra:wpaper:2010-10&r=cul |
| By: | Abideen, Zain Ul; Salaria, Rashid M. |
| Abstract: | The purpose of study is to deliberate upon the impacts of television advertising on children & to identify those critical impacts which lead to behavioral and eating disorder in children. Impacts of TV advertising were identified as unnecessary purchasing, low nutritional food and materialism. A questionnaire using five point likert scale was administered to 425 parents of children aged between 9-14 years, and studying in schools. Samples were drawn through convenience sampling approach from four cities of Pakistan namely Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Bahawalpur & Multan. Data were analyzed by using SPSS software. Pearson correlation was used to measure the relationships of the variables on one-to-one basis indicating the most correlated variable was Unnecessary Purchasing which had Pearson correlation value of 0.312 and significance value of 0.000. It was followed by a Materialism which had Pearson correlation value of 0.260 and significance value of 0.000. Then comes Low Nutritional Food being Pearson correlation value of 0.258 and significance value of 0.000. Testing of hypothesis found that television advertising increases the consumption of food that is unhealthy, having low nutritional values and high in Sugar, Fat and Salt (SFS) in children with F=30.146 & P=0.000. Subsequently, it was found that Television advertising leads to increase in unnecessary purchasing in children with F= 45.747 & P=0.000 and materialism in children with F=30.545 & P=0.000. So, it is summed up that TV advertising is affecting children by increasing their food consumption pattern, preference for low-nutrient, high in sugar, fat & salt (SFS) foods and beverages, change in attitude that is aggressive and violent in nature and inclination towards unnecessary purchasing. |
| Keywords: | TV Advertising; Low Nutritional Food; Violence; Unnecessary Purchasing; Materialism |
| JEL: | M31 |
| Date: | 2009–12–04 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:22321&r=cul |