“La cultura è la nostra storia, il nostro tempo presente, il dono che lasciamo alle generazioni future. La cultura è la nostra ricchezza inesauribile, un bene che più si consuma, più cresce.” (Walter Santagata, Libro Bianco sulla Creatività, 2009)
1. Political economy of cultural sectors and collective goods provision
Dalle Nogare, C., Scuderi, R., Bertacchini, E. (2021). Immigrants, voter sentiment, and local public goods: The case of museums. Journal of Regional Science, 61(5), 1087–1112.
Bertacchini, E., Dalle Nogare, C., Scuderi, R. (2018). Ownership, organization structure and public service provision: the case of museums. Journal of Cultural Economics, 42(4), 619–643.
Bertacchini, E., Liuzza, C., Meskell, L., Saccone, D. (2016). The politicization of UNESCO World Heritage decision making. Public Choice, 167(1), 95–129.
Bertacchini, E., Dalle Nogare, C. (2014). Public provision vs. outsourcing of cultural services: Evidence from Italian cities. European Journal of Political Economy, 35, 168–182.
Bertacchini, E., Saccone, D. (2012). Toward a political economy of World Heritage. Journal of Cultural Economics, 36(4), 327–352.
Bertacchini, E., Santagata, W., Signorello, G. (2011). Individual giving to support cultural heritage. International Journal of Arts Management, 13(3), 41–55.
2. Heritage economics, institutions and local development
Bertacchini, E., Revelli, F., Zotti, R. (2024). The economic impact of UNESCO World Heritage: Evidence from Italy. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 105.
Bertacchini, E., Frontuto, V. (2024). Economic valuation of industrial heritage: A choice experiment on Shanghai Baosteel industrial site. Journal of Cultural Heritage, 66, 215–228.
Bertacchini, E., Gould, P. (2021). Collective action dilemmas at cultural heritage sites: An application of the IAD-NAAS framework. International Journal of the Commons, 15(1), 276–290.
Bertacchini, E., Revelli, F. (2021). Kalòs kai agathòs? Government quality and cultural heritage in the regions of Europe. The Annals of Regional Science, 67(2), 513–539.
Bertacchini, E., Nuccio, M., Durio, A. (2021). Proximity tourism and cultural amenities: Evidence from a regional museum card. Tourism Economics, 27(1), 187–204.
Bertacchini, E., Sultan, R. (2020). Valuing urban cultural heritage in African countries: A contingent valuation study of historic buildings in Port Louis, Mauritius. Journal of African Economies, 29(2), 192–213.
3. Geography and organization of the cultural and creative industries
Maronero, C., Bertacchini, E., Patrucco, P.P. (2026). Video game industry clusters: A review of the literature. In D. Jayemanne, G. White (eds.), Creative Clustering and the Video Games Industry. Routledge.
Puletti, F., Bertacchini, E., Borrione, P., Arenella, O. (2025). “A place for my art”: independent artist-run spaces as incubators of artistic careers in Italy. Cultural Trends, 34(5), 704–721.
Bertacchini, E., Pazzola, G., Puletti, F. (2022). Urban alternative cultural production in Turin: An ecological community approach. European Urban and Regional Studies, 29(3), 350–368.
Bertacchini, E., Borrione, P. (2013). The geography of the Italian creative economy: The special role of the design and craft-based industries. Regional Studies, 47(2), 135–147.
Bertacchini, E., Santagata, W. (eds.) (2012). Atmosfera creativa. Un modello di sviluppo sostenibile per il Piemonte fondato su cultura e creatività. Il Mulino.
4. Cultural participation, digital transformation and cultural commons
Bertacchini, E., Venturini, A., Zotti, R., Misuraca, R. (2025). Life satisfaction and the variety and intensity of cultural participation in Italy: disentangling the individual and regional dimensions. Regional Studies. DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2024.2417701.
Bertacchini, E., Messina, T., Pensa, I. (2025). Assessing the digital footprint of heritage collections through Wikimedia data. Economia della Cultura, 1, 67–80.
Bertacchini, E., Venturini, A., Zotti, R. (2022). Drivers of cultural participation of immigrants: evidence from an Italian survey. Journal of Cultural Economics, 46(1), 57–100.
Nuccio, M., Bertacchini, E. (2022). Data-driven arts and cultural organizations: opportunity or chimera? European Planning Studies, 30(9), 1638–1655.
Bertacchini, E., Morando, F. (2013). The future of museums in the digital age: New models for access to and use of digital collections. International Journal of Arts Management, 15(2), 60–72.
Bertacchini, E., Bravo, G., Marrelli, M., Santagata, W. (eds.) (2012). Cultural Commons: A New Perspective on the Production and Evolution of Cultures. Edward Elgar.
Perini, L., Bertacchini, E., Zanola, R. (2025). The Italian cinema under the shadow of censorship: An empirical investigation of the post-fascism period. ACEI Working Paper AWP-05-2025.
Economic Development and Threats to World Heritage Sites - with V. Frontuto, M. Dattilo and G. Segre
One Site, Different Contexts: Heterogeneous Real Estate Effects of a Serial UNESCO Designation - with F. Revelli and R. Zotti
Open by Design: Open Distribution as a Strategic Choice for Cultural Organizations - with M. Sahli and J. Bieser
Immersive Technologies and the demand for cultural heritage - with A. Fontana and S. Peltier
Open Innovation Communities and Firm Performance in the Gaming sector - with A. Cuntz, C. Maronero, P. Patrucco and R. Samson
From 2024 - on. Gaming Clusters Across Multiple European Regions (GAME-ER) - HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-01. Role: Research Unit Coordinator. Budget: 402,250 €
2024-2025 EPIC – Etude du Patrimoine Immersif Culturel , financed by LabEx ICCA. Role: Research partner. Budget: 15.000€
2022-2024 Empowering Italian GLAMs – Wikimedia Foundation. Role: Scientific Coordinator. Budget: 36.000 €
2018-2020 Cultural consumption and immigrants integration: Turin as a lab for innovative policies – Fondazione CRT. Budget: 25,000 €
July 2026 ESPM (Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
May 2026 Newcastle University Business School, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
June 2025 Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
May 2025: Université Sorbonne Paris Nord (Paris 13), Paris, France
December 2024. Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias (CRIM), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Cuernavaca, Mexico
November 2022 Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris 3), Paris, France
2019–2021 (yearly, October–November) Institut de Recherche et d’Études Supérieures du Tourisme (IREST), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France