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World Heritage: Where Are We? An Empirical Analysis

Frey, Bruno S.; Pamini, Paolo - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2011

A statistical analysis of the UNESCO World Heritage List is presented. The World Heritage Convention intends to protect global heritage of outstanding value to mankind, but there has been great concern about the missing representativity of the member countries. There is a strongly biased...

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European capitals of culture and life satisfaction

Frey, Bruno S.; Steiner, Lasse; Hotz, Simone - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2013

This paper analyzes whether hosting the most prestigious European cultural event, the European Capital of Culture, has …

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European Capitals of Culture and Life Satisfaction

Steiner, Lasse; Frey, Bruno S.; Hotz, Simone - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2013

This paper analyzes whether hosting the most prestigious European cultural event, the European Capital of Culture, has …

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Long Term Persistence

Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

’s conjecture that today marked differences in social capital between the North and South of Italy were due to the culture of …

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Social Capital as Good Culture

Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

To explain the extremely long-term persistence (more than 500 years) of positive historical experiences of cooperation (Putnam 1993), we model the intergenerational transmission of priors about the trustworthiness of others. We show that this transmission tends to be biased toward excessively...

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Pay as you go: a new proposal for museum pricing

Frey, Bruno S.; Steiner, Lasse - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2010

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...

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Pay as You Go: A New Proposal for Museum Pricing

Frey, Bruno S.; Steiner, Lasse - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2010

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PROTECTING CULTURAL MONUMENTS AGAINST TERRORISM

Frey, Bruno S.; Rohner, Dominic - In: Defence and Peace Economics 18 (2007) 3, pp. 245-252

Famous cultural monuments are often regarded as unique icons, making them an attractive target for terrorists. Despite huge military and police outlays, terrorist attacks on important monuments can hardly be avoided. We argue that an effective strategy to discourage terrorist attacks on iconic...

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Protecting Cultural Monuments Against Terrorism

Frey, Bruno S.; Rohner, Dominic - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2005

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Does Culture Affect Economic Outcomes?

Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Economists have been reluctant to rely on culture as a possible determinant of economic phenomena. The notion of … culture is so broad and the channels through which it can enter the economic discourse so vague that it is difficult to design … testable hypotheses. In this paper we show this does need to be the case. We introduce a narrower definition of culture that …

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