Violin virtuosi: Do their performances fade over time?

Clemens Puppe and Attila Tasnádi

No 171, Working Paper Series in Economics from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Department of Economics and Management

Abstract: In many professional activities humans are getting better generation by generation. This is supposed to be the case, for instance, in sports and in science. Is it true in the arts? In this paper, we consider violinists from the time period in which audio and video recordings became possible. Based on the number of YouTube views, and by employing different aggregation methods, we find that listening to violinists from the mid of the previous century does not seem to be significantly less attractive to audiences than listening to contemporary violinists. Methodologically, our analysis contributes to the growing literature on the aggregation of incomplete lists. In particular, we introduce a generalization of the Nash collective utility function for incomplete lists.

Keywords: Group decisions and negotiations; multi-criteria decision making; aggregation of incomplete lists; Nash collective utility function; top violinists (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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