In Italy, public expenditure reduction is achieved through a revision of social security and
health care programs. In particular, public health expenditure control has been implemented …

This article analyses patient mobility across Italian regions. A modified gravity model of patient
migration is specified and estimated using panel observations covering mobility and other …

Art price indexes typically rely on heavily biased samples for several reasons. A refined hedonic
index is developed which explicitly addresses such concerns. An empirical illustration is …

Different art objects are likely to be priced by means of different systems of hedonic characteristics;
more precisely, different evaluation procedures for high and low price items are often …

This paper analyses the performance of a speculative investment in paintings during the
period 1987–1995 by applying a modified repeat sales technique to a sample of 1446 repeat …

Two basic approaches have been used by the literature focusing on the return to holding
artistic works: the hedonic price model and the repeat-sales model. This paper provides a …

Although there exists a large body of literature which has empirically investigated the impact
of various determinants on cinema attendance, studies that analyse the addictive …

This paper analyses the performance of an investment in sculpture during theperiod 1987–1995
by applying the hedonic price technique with time dummyvariables to a sample of over …

Although circus represents one of the most accessible art forms, the economics of the arts
and culture has completely neglected to address this topic. This paper represents an attempt …

The repeat-sales model controls quality by utilizing the transacted prices of the same items
in different time periods. However, this methodology suffers from non-randomness of the data…