The economics of Latin American art
Subtitle: creativity patterns and rates of return
By: Sebastian Edwards.
Contributors: Edwards, Sebastian, 1953-; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 10302; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 10302.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Art as an investment.; Art -- Economic aspects -- Latin America.
Description: "In this paper I use a large data set to analyze two aspects of the Latin American arts: (1) the nature of artistic creative process, and (2) Latin American art as an investment.  I use data on auctions to understand the relation between artists' age and the value of their work.  The analysis on creativity suggests that Latin American artists have followed very different patterns from that followed by U.S.  artists.  There is strong evidence suggesting that American artists born after 1920 did their best work at an earlier age than their older colleagues; exactly the opposite is true for the case of Latin America.  Indeed, the results reported in this paper suggest that Latin American artists born after 1920 did their best work at a significantly older age than their colleagues from earlier cohorts.  The analysis of art as an investment is based on the estimation of hedonic price indexes, and indicates that Latin American art has had a relatively high rate of return indeed much higher than that of other type of paintings.  The results also indicate that returns on Latin American art have a very low degree of correlation that is, a very low beta relative to an international portfolio comprised of equities.  This means that adding Latin American art will lower the overall risk of an international portfolio"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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