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Choices on museum attendance: An agent‐based approach
Author(s) -
Biondo Alessio Emanuele,
Cellini Roberto,
Cuccia Tiziana
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
metroeconomica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.256
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-999X
pISSN - 0026-1386
DOI - 10.1111/meca.12306
Subject(s) - attendance , consumption (sociology) , exhibition , population , focus (optics) , business , microeconomics , computer science , demographic economics , economics , public economics , sociology , economic growth , visual arts , art , demography , social science , physics , optics
This paper presents an agent‐based model to study museum attendance, with the final aim of evaluating how the rules on free admission affect charged visits. Heterogeneous agents of a population are assumed to make their choices over a bundle of goods and activities which include museum attendance along with other consumption and leisure‐time alternatives. Simulations show that larger free‐admission rules always lead to an increase in the number of total visits. A specific focus is dedicated to show which conditions let the free admittance policies induce an increment also in charged visits. Agents are characterized in terms of income and education. Addiction to cultural consumption is modelled both with and without reference to education. Specific aspects, such as crowd effects and renovation of exhibitions, are also considered, as features of the museum attendance.