pt. I. Public intervention and policy analysis -- pt. II. Private actors -- pt. III. The international dimension -- pt. IV. Management : strategies and tools -- pt. V. Technologies : issues and opportunities -- pt. VI. Conservation of built heritage -- pt. VII. Cultural heritage and the economy...

This book reassesses central topics in cultural economics: Public finance and public choice theory as the basis for decision-making in cultural and media policy, the role of welfare economics in cultural policy, the economics of creative industries, the application of empirical testing to the...

Based on the literature on public procurement regulation, we use an Agent-Based Model to assess the performance of different selection procedures. Specifically, we aim at investigating whether and how the inclusion of reputation of firms in the public procurement selection process affects the...

1. Introduction -- 2. Notes on a Definition of the Concept of Public Debt -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Analogies between borrowing and unfunded obligations -- 2.3 Differences between borrowing and unfunded obligations -- 2.4 The U.K. pension system case -- 2.5 Economic and policy implications --...