Who is who in PUCK?

Participation, City, University and Culture, the 4 axes of this project.

Scholars from universities of four countries meet in this project to

analyze and change point of views to better understand cultural

participation.

Practitioners from different cultural institutions contribute with their

daily management of program and audiences.

You may already know the institutions involved in our project from

previous newsletters. It is now time to meet the people

Victoria Ateca-Amestoy

Victoria Ateca-Amestoy is Associate Professor in the

Department of Economic Analysis II in the University of

the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). She has worked in the

design and management of cultural projects and her

research interests are cultural economics, behavioral

economics and social indicators. She has published

papers in Economics Bulletin, 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

and on cultural statistics.

She is a member of the executive board of the

Association for Cultural Economics International and of

the Asociación Española de Gestores de Patrimonio

Cultural. She serves as book editor for the Journal of

Cultural Economics.

Karol Jan Borowiecki is Assistant Professor at the

Department of Business and Economics at University of

Southern Denmark. He holds a PhD in Economics from

Trinity College Dublin.

His research interests are mainly in urban economics

(creative clusters) and labor economics (especially

migration of creative people). He has studied the historical

incidence, development and long-term importance of

cultural heritage and artistic activity in Europe. As such, he

has investigated the extent of historical migration and

geographic clustering of classical composers, the socio-

economic consequences of geographic concentration and

the impact of war on migration and productivity outcomes

of creative people. He has published in peer-reviewed

international journals such as Journal of Urban Economics,

European Review of Economic History, Journal of Cultural

Economics and Urban Studies, and is the recipient of

various awards and grants, including the ACEI Presidents’

Prize for Best Paper (Copenhagen, 2010).

Karol Jan Borowiecki

Roberto Cellini Roberto Cellini (born in S.Giovanni P., Bologna, 1965),

Laurea (M.A.) in Political Sciences at the University of

Bologna (1987/88), Dottorato di Ricerca (Ph.D.) in

Economics (Bologna, 1994). Researcher and Lecturer at

the University of Bologna (till 1998), Associate Professor

of Economics at the University of Catania (1998-2002).

Currently, he is Full Professor of Economics at the

University of Catania (1998-2002),where he teaches

Microeconomics and Advanced Microeconomics.

Over the past years, he held temporary or visiting

positions at different overseas universities (e.g.,

University "Johannes Kepler" in Linz, Hohenheim in

Stuttgart, UCL London).

Currently, he is member of the Presidency Board of SIE -

the Italian Economic Association.

The main fields of research are the theoretical and

econometric problems of economic growth, game

theory (in particular, differential games), industrial

organization, and cultural economics.

His publication record includes articles in Journal of

Economic Theory (1998), Journal of Economic Dynamics

and Control (2002,2008), Economics Letters (2000),

Journal of Macroeconomics (1997), Empirical Economics

(1998), International Review of Law and Economic

(1998), Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications

(2003, 2005), European Journal of Operational Research

(2006), of inter alia. His papers were presented at

different conferences of international associations, e.g.,

Econometric Society, EEA - European Economic

Association ,EARIE - European Association for Research

in Industrial Economics, ISDG - International Society of

Dynamic Games, ACEI- Association of Cultural

Economics International.

Tiziana Cuccia (Catania, Italy, 1964) is Full Professor of

Economic Policy at the Department of Economics and

Business, University of Catania.

She obtained the Laurea (BA) in Economics (1991) and

the Doctorate in “Technology and Economics of

Production for the Environmental Saveguard” at the

University of Catania (1995), and the Master in

“Environmental and Resource Economics” at UCL -

University College London (1993).

She held positions at ISTAT (the National Statistics

Institute of Italy), Fondazione ENI “Enrico Mattei”, and

FORMEZ; during the period 1996-2003 she was

Researcher and Appointed Professor of Economic Policy

at the University of Catania; at the same University he

held the position of Associate Professor (2003-2010);

starting November 2010, she is full professor. She gave

the courses of “Cultural Economics”, “Development

Economics”, “Economic Policy” and “International

Economic Policy” in different schools of the University of

Catania, and at the University of Bologna (Faculty of

Economics, Rimini). She is teacher in different Master

Programmes (ICE, UNESCO …)

Her scientific interests concern the economic evaluation

of public goods, issues in cultural economics (artists’

market labour) and tourism economics. Her publications

appeared in international journal like, e.g., Journal of

Cultural Economics, Tourism Management, Scottish

Journal of Political Economy, Applied Economics, etc.

Among the administrative duties, she was member of

Academic Senate of the University of Catania (2005-10),

director of the Economic Section of SISSIS (the

specialization University School for teaching in

secondary school) (2007-08). Appointed in 2007, she was

a member of the Ministerial Commission for the study

and promotion of creativity in Italy (Ministerial Decree

20/10/2007).

Tiziana Cuccia

Víctor Fernández-Blanco Víctor Fernández-Blanco has a PhD in Economics from

the Faculty of Economics of the University of and of

Oviedo (Spain) and is Assistant Professor in the

Department of Economics in the same university. His

research interests are cultural economics, history of

economic thought and industrial organization. He has

published several papers in international journals such

as Journal of Cultural Economics, Journal of Media

Economics, Journal of Economic Psychology, Empirical

Economics, International Journal of Production

Economics and European Journal of Operational

Research. He is member of the Editorial Board of the

Journal of Cultural Economics.

Victor A. Ginsburgh was born in Rwanda-Burundi in

1939. He left for Europe to study he was not sure exactly

what, and eventually opted for a business degree. For

better and not worse, he moved to a Ph.D. in economics,

and moved to economics of the arts some 20years ago.

He 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 a dozen of 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 Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture,

Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2006). He is the author or

coauthor of over 180 papers on topics in applied and

heoretical economics, including industrial organization,

general equilibrium analysis and the economics of art

and culture.

Victor A. Ginsburgh

Maria Jose Perez-Villadoniga Maria Jose Perez-Villadoniga is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Oviedo in Spain. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Oviedo. Her main research interests are labour economics, especially gender economics, and economics of culture. She has published in international journals such as the Manchester School, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and Journal of Economic Theory.

Juan Prieto-Rodriguez is a Full Professor of Economics at

the University of Oviedo. His fields of specialization are

cultural, public and labor economics. His main interests

in cultural economics are cultural participation and

cultural industries. He is the current Executive Secretary-

Treasurer of ACEI. He has published more than 60

articles in applied and theoretical economics in

international journals such as Economics Letters,

European Journal of Operational Research, Industrial &

Labor Relations Review, International Journal of

Forecasting, Journal of Economic Psychology and Journal

of Cultural Economics.

He is the coordinator of PUCK and can be contacted at:

Departamento de Economia, Universidad de Oviedo,

Campus del Cristo, 33006 Oviedo, Spain.

Juan Prieto-Rodriguez

Miguel López-Remiro

Miguel López-Remiro is the Director of the Museum

University of Navarra since 2010. PhD in Aesthetics and

Art Theory, Bachelor’s degree in Economics at the

University of Navarra and MBA at the IESE Business

School. In 1999 he became a doctoral fellow at the

Cátedra Félix Huarte of Aesthetics and Contemporary Art

and Visiting Scholar at the department of Visual Arts at

the University of California, in San Diego. He was also

Research Fellow at the Getty Research Institute. Miguel

is editor of the first anthologies of text of Mark Rothko in

collaboration with Yale University Press and Flamarion.

From 2006 until he joined the Museum University of

Navarra he was the Associated Director of Curatorial and

Research at the Museum Guggenheim Bilbao.

Beatriz Plaza has a PhD in Economics from the Faculty of

Economics of the University of the Basque Country and

obtained her MBA from IESE Business School. At present,

she works as Professor in Urban and Regional Economics

at this same university. Her research interests include:

Cultural Policy as Development Policy; Urban

Regeneration; Economic Impact of Museums; Cultural

Branding; Digital Economies; Measurement and

Economic Analysis of Regional Economics; Cultural

Economics.

Beatriz Plaza

John W. O’Hagan

He is Professor of Economics at Trinity College Dublin

and he has been Director of the MSc in Economic Policy

Studies (EPS) programme since 2008. He has been a

member of the College’s Audit Committee since 2007

and was College Bursar from 2001 to 2005. He was

President of the Association for Cultural Economics

International from 1998 to 2000 and he hosted the Fifth

European Workshop in Applied Cultural Economics in

Trinity College in September 2011.

He received funding from the J-P Foundation in London

to hire three graduate research students from 2012 to

2016 to analyse the determinants of creative career

success, building on earlier work by three former PhD

students relating to visual artists and composers.

He acts as referee for many journals in the cultural area

and has reviewed papers in the last twelve months for

the Journal of Cultural Economics, the Journal of Media

Economics, the International Journal of Cultural Policy

and Public Administration. He has also acted as referee

for two recent books for Oxford University Press and

Cambridge University Press.

Luisa Fernanda Gutiérrez-Navratil is a PhD student in the

Department of Economics at the University of Oviedo

(Spain), a MA in Economics from the University of The

Basque Country (Spain) and a BA in Economics from the

National University of Cuyo (Argentina). She has

received the Research Awards 2012 from the Fundación

Autor for his Phd thesis project in cultural economics.

Her research interests are in cultural economics,

industrial organization, antitrust issues and policies. Her

publications have already been published in scientific

journals such as Journal of Cultural Economics, Papeles

de Economía Española and Revista Economía Industrial.

She is visiting lecturer in the Master in Economics of

Culture and Cultural Management from the University of

Valladolid.

Luisa Fernanda

Gutiérrez-Navratil

Michel Hambersin Doctor in Law and Master in Economics (Université Libre

de Bruxelles, ULB), Michel Hambersin is since 1988

professor at the Faculty of Economics, Political and

Social Sciences of the ULB.

He joined in 1974 the Banque Européenne de Crédit. In

1983, he joined the International Credits department of

Generale de Banque where he managed the crisis of

developing countries international debt. He became,

afterwards, Head of International Risks at the Central

Credit Department. He has also been a member of

various think groups, national and international, such as

the International Monetary Commission of the

International Chamber of Commerce in Paris.

Separately from his academic and financial

responsibilities, he has been reviewer of classical music

(« Revue des disques », « Harmonie », “L’Avant Scène

Opéra” and “Diapason”) and, since 1982, the musical

reviewer of “Le Soir”. He has contributed to various

broadcastings with Musi3 in Belgium, Radio Classique

and France Music in France. He is Chairman of the

Belgian Music Press and of the Contemporary Festival

Ars Musica.

He has organized various colloquiums on culture

economics on topics such as access to music, symphonic

orchestras and contemporary music. Among others, he

has contributed to various publications of the Belgian

Council for Music. He is member of the «Technology and

Society» of the Royal Academy of Belgium.

Isidoro Mazza holds degrees from the University of

Catania (Laurea), University of Maryland (M.A.) and

University of Amsterdam (PhD). He is 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.

Isidoro Mazza

Concetta Castiglione Concetta Castiglione’s (Ph.D., MSc., Trinity College

Dublin) research interests are in the area of cultural

participation, consumer demand, comparative research,

productivity and technical progress, foreign direct

investments, institutions and environment. Her list of

publications includes papers in academic journals such

as Applied Economics, Tourism Economics, Communist

and Post-Communist Studies, etc.; in edited books and in

international conference proceedings. She also received

a doctoral degree in Applied Economics from the

University of Calabria (Italy) where she is currently

teaching as a temporary professor of Economic Policy.