We emphasize that color composition is an important characteristic of a painting. It impacts the auction price of a painting but it has never been considered in previous studies on art markets. By using Picasso's paintings and paintings of Color Field Abstract Expressionists sold in Chrisite's...

Price indices for heterogenous goods such as real estate or fine art constitute crucial information for institutional or private investors considering alternative investments in times of financial markets turmoil. Classical mean-variance analysis of alternative investments has been hampered by...

Focuses on different regions (including China, Russia, India, and Japan) as well as different institutions and organizations to examine barriers to and effects of globalization on the art market's organizational dynamics and people within the art industry

Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Möglichkeiten der Bewertung von Kunst- und Kulturgegenständen im neuen doppischen Finanzwesen der Kommunen im Kontext zum Zweck der Bilanzierung und schließt mit einem Modellvorschlag zur Ermittlung des Erhaltungsaufwandes. Die ergebnisorientierte Steuerung und...

This study develops a novel 2-step hedonic approach, which is used to construct a price index for German paintings. This approach enables the researcher to use every single auction record, instead of only those auction records that belong to a sub-sample of selected artists. This results in a...