C¨C¨E¨M
The Centre for
Cultural Economics and Management
CCEM is a new centre
of excellence specialising in the economics of cultural heritage. The
particular focus is on three aspects of heritage issues. Valuation refers to the process of estimating the economic value of
cultural assets by finding out individuals’ willingness to pay to conserve
them. Capture refers to the
mechanisms for ensuring that this willingness to pay is transformed into cash
or other resource flows. Management
goes beyond capture to the more general design of incentives and institutions
that will favour the conservation of our cultural heritage.
CCEM is able to
undertake research on all the economic aspects of managing objects of cultural
heritage. These include economic valuation, pricing policies, environmental
impact analysis, cost benefit analysis, demand analysis, institutional analysis
and tourism impact/multiplier studies. CCEM maintains close links to
conservation experts and archaeologists. The directors of CCEM are Assistant
Professor David Maddison, Dr. Susana Mourato and Professor David Pearce and we
are at Hamburg University, Imperial College London and University College
London respectively. We work closely with the following PhD students: Marilena
Pollicino, Andreas Kontoleon, Massimiliano Mazzanti and Julie Brown. To send us
an email click here. To see a brief
summary of the projects we have been involved with click here.
To see what’s new click here.
On Friday 2nd
of February 2001 we held a one day conference on the Economic Valuation of
Cultural Heritage in the Department of Economics of University College London.
Almost one hundred people attended the conference and lively debate ensued.
Click on the links below to download three of the conference papers. Also available for download is
the opening address given to Institute of Field Archaeologists annual conference
held in Newcastle 10-13th April 2001.
Economics
and Cultural Heritage by
David Pearce, David Maddison and Marilena Pollicino
Valuing
Congestion in the British Museum by David Maddison and Terry Foster
The
Economic Value of Recorded Heritage by Susana Mourato and Ece Ozdemiroglu
The Economic Value of
Archaeology by David Maddison
This
web site was last revised by David Maddison on the 18th of April 2001.