Causal inference in Cultural Economics - COES

Date & Time: Tuesday, February 13, 2024, 9:00 AM Central European Time
Methods of causal inference and causal discovery in econometrics and statistics have gained prominence in recent decades, following seminal works of Donald Rubin, Judea Pearl, James Heckman, Guido Imbens, Joshua Angrist, James Robins and Philip Dawid, among many authors. Research has been gaining ground in both potential outcomes as well as directed acyclic graphical approaches, and combinations of both such as the single world intervention graph perspective. Recenty, connections of machine learning and data science with causal inference have been subject to a body of research, opening many new perspectives.
In our mini-symposium we aim to present and discuss some of the most interesting recent applications of such methods in cultural economics.
Featured presentations:
Matthias Sahli (joint article with Alexander Cuntz): Ars longa, vita brevis: The death of the creator and the impact on exhibitions and auction markets
David Throsby (joint article with John R. Severn and Katya Petetskaya): Preference formation in demand for live theatre
Andrea Baldin (jointly with Trine Bille): The lost value for users of cultural institutions during the COVID‑19 pandemic: a life satisfaction approach
The mini-symposium will be moderated by Andrej Srakar, Special Session Coordinator of the CEOS online seminar series.