Conference
The Association holds an international conference every two years.
The Association for Cultural Economics International (ACEI) has held its
17th International Conference of ACEI in Kyoto last June 21-24, 2012.
Two plenary sessions presented in this conference can be downloaded here:
Plenary session by Prof. Masahisa Fujita
"Diversity and Culture in Knowledge Creation: The Story of the Tower of Babel Revisited"
Opening plenary session by Prof. Stan Liebowitz
"What has the Internet wrought for the production of Entertainment and Culture?"
Information about the host university, the conference, the social program and other issues that may be useful can be found on the ACEI 2012 website within the Japan Association for Cultural Economics site.
ACEI conferences have theme-related special sessions and other regular ones. The following subject areas are intended to be illustrative of possible topics that might be considered, but other approaches are welcome:
- Art Markets and Cultural Consumption
- Creative Clusters and Urban Development
- Cultural Entrepreneurship and Business
- Cultural Heritage and Cultural Tourism
- Cultural Policy and Arts Institutions
- Culture, Globalization and Language
- Economic of Copyright and the Cultural Industries
- Economics of Marketing and Promoting Culture
- Entertainment and Media Industries
- Internet Economics and Culture
Call for Papers
All scholars, business practitioners, consultants and policy-maker with an interest on the economics of culture and the creative industries are encouraged to attend ACEI conferences.
ACEI 2014
- Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) has been formally invited to organize the 2014 conference in Montreal (Canada)
- The 2016 conference will be organized by the University of Valladolid (Spain)
Prizes and Honours
The ACEI awards regular prizes and creates Honorary Fellows from
time to time.
The Presidents´ Prize
This prize is awarded to the best paper in the judgement of a
Committee consisting of the President, Past President and
President-Elect that is presented at the biennial conference by a PhD
or other postgraduate student. The prize includes: an announcement of
the winner in the Journal of Cultural
Economics (JCE) and other academic journals; a waiver of conference
registration and conference banquet fees for the next conference; and
an expedited process for refereeing the winning paper for possible
publication in the JCE. The winner is announced at the ACEI's General
Meeting during the conference.
The Pommerehne Prize
The prize is awarded to the paper published in the Journal of
Cultural Economics in the 2 volumes preceding the biennial conference
that is judged to be best. The winner receives a prize of US$1,000. The
procedures are currently under review.
Previous conference information
The Association holds an international conference every two years.
The 16th International Conference was
held at the
Copenhagen Business
School, Denmark, Thursday 10 - Saturday 12 June 2010. The local
organizers of the conference were Copenhagen Business School,
Institute of Innovation and Organizational Economics, and the
University of Copenhagen, Department of Economics.
See History page for details of
previous prize winners, workshops and symposia.