Reconsidering Psychic Return in Art Investments

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Guido Candela

University of Bologna - Department of Economics

Massimiliano Castellani

Department of Statistics

Pierpaolo Pattitoni

University of Bologna, Department of Statistical Sciences; University of Bologna - Rimini Center for Economic Analysis (RCEA)

Date Written: August 9, 2012

Abstract

Measuring the psychic return of art investments is a debated issue in Cultural economics. Several works suggest Jensen’s alpha as a measure of the psychic return. Since the Jensen’s alpha is defined in the CAPM framework, its uncritical application as a measure of the psychic return may be problematic when the CAPM hypotheses do not hold. Applying an opportunity cost framework and the analytical tools of portfolio theory, we propose a new psychic return measure, which is not affected by the same issues as Jensen’s alpha. Psychic return estimates based on our measure are provided for several art market indexes as an empirical application.

Keywords: psychic return, art investment, portfolio theory

JEL Classification: G11, Z11

Suggested Citation

Candela, Guido and Castellani, Massimiliano and Pattitoni, Pierpaolo, Reconsidering Psychic Return in Art Investments (August 9, 2012). Economics Letters, Vol. 118, No. 2, 2013, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2127113 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2127113

Guido Candela

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Massimiliano Castellani (Contact Author)

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Pierpaolo Pattitoni

University of Bologna, Department of Statistical Sciences ( email )

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