karol

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

I am writing in order to draw you attention to my unusual (economic) research on the history of classical composers and their music.

In a recent paper I estimate the causal gain of locating in important centres for music (such as Paris in XIX century) on the production of classical composers. I find that composers who worked in geographic clusters have composed approximately one additional work of significance every three years. I further find that the disclosed productivity gains are attributed to peer effects, that is, the interaction that took place between composers in geographic clusters. The paper is forthcoming in the Journal of Urban Economics, a top-field outlet:

Geographic Clustering and Productivity: An Instrumental Variable Approach for Classical Composers, Journal of Urban Economics, 2013, 73: 94-110.

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