Enhancing Participation in the Arts in the Eu: Challenges and Methods

European Statistics on Participation in the Arts and Their International Comparability.- Measuring Participation in the Arts in Spain.- Measuring Cultural Participation in Italy.- Attendance at/Participation in the Arts by Educational Level Evidence and Issues.- Measuring Participation or Participating in Measurement? The Cautionary Tale of an Accidental Experiment in Survey Accuracy.- Participation in the Arts and Social Inclusion in Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods.- Musical Rhythm Embedded in the Brain. Bridging Music, Neuroscience, and Empirical Aesthetics.- Contemporary Music and its Audience. A Tale of Benevolent Asceticism? - Musical Audiences in Spain.- The Evolution of Theatre Attendance in Italy: Patrons and Companies.- Raiders of the Lost Ark. A European Market for European Movies?- A Geographical Approach to the 'Smart' Location of Museums.- New Lines of Action for Museums.- Public Private Partnership for the Enhancement of Heritage. The Case of the Benedictine Monastery of Catania.- The Multi-product Nature of the Firm in the Arts Sector. The case of 'Centro Zo'.- Evaluating the Efficiency of Cultural Travel Destinations. A DEA Approach.- An empirical investigation of cultural tourists' preferences and behaviours in a destination with mixed environmental features.- Digital Research & Development in the Arts.- Implementation of Tracking Technologies for Temporal and Spatial Management of Cultural Destinations: Hong Kong as an Example.- Cultural Economics, the Internet and Participation.- Classical Music: New Proposals for New Audiences.- The Cultural Value and Variety of Playing Video Games.- Measuring the Economic Effects of Cultural Events Using Google Trends.- Are Less Public Funds Bad? New Strategies for Art Providers.- Arts, Culture and Creativity as Drivers for Territorial Development, Innovation and Competitiveness.

VICTORIA ATECA-AMESTOY

Victoria is an Associate Professor at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). She served as book review editor for the Journal of Cultural Economics and is a member of the Asociación Española de Gestores de Patrimonio Cultural. She has worked in the design and management of cultural projects for private firms, professional associations and public administrations. Her research interests are cultural economics, behavioral economics and social indicators. She has published papers in international journals such as The Journal of Socio Economics, Journal of Cultural Economics, Social Indicators Research, European Journal of Operational Research, and has contributed to handbooks on the economics of leisure and on the economics of cultural heritage. She has also coordinated international and national research projects on the determinants of cultural participation, on cultural statistics and on the economic and social impact of cultural projects.

Victor Ginsburgh is Honorary Professor of Economics at Université Libre de Bruxelles, and former co-director of the European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES). He is also a member of the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain since 1972. He was visitor at Yale University, University of Chicago, University of Virginia, University of Louvain, as well as in Marseilles, Paris, Strasbourg and Alexandria (Egypt). He wrote and edited 15 books (among which The Structure of Applied General Equilibrium, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997, with M. Keyzer, How Many Languages Do We Need, Princeton University Press, 2011 with Shlomo Weber and edited with D. Throsby the two volumes of The Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2006, 2013). He is the author or co-author of over 200 papers on topics in applied and theoreticaleconomics, including industrial organization, general equilibrium analysis, the economics of art, culture and languages. His work has appeared in the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Economic Journal, Journal of the European Economic Association, Empirical Studies of the Arts, Journal of Cultural Economics and Journal of Wine Economics.

ISIDORO MAZZA

Isidoro Mazza holds degrees from the University of Catania (Laurea), University of Maryland (M.A.) and University of Amsterdam (PhD). He is Full Professor of Public Finance at the University of Catania. His main research interests include: cultural policies, art market, interest groups, migration, voluntary provision of public goods, fiscal federalism, voting, urban economics. He has published in international journals such as international journals such as European Economic Review, Journal of Cultural Economics, European Journal of PoliticalEconomy, Public Choice, International Tax and Public Finance.

JOHN O'HAGAN

John O'Hagan is Emeritus Professor of Economics, and Senior Fellow, at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He was President of the Association for Cultural Economics International from 1998 to 2000. He is on the scientific committee of the European Workshop in Applied Cultural Economics, with the eight workshop to be held in Krakow in 2017. He was Chair of a government-appointed group reviewing value for money in the allocation of Irish Arts Council expenditure, the Report of which was completed in September 2015. He has published widely in cultural economics, as well as on the Irish economy, including a 13^th edition of his popular edited Economy of Ireland book (Palgrave London) due out in 2017.

JUAN PRIETO-RODRIGUEZ