GIEC UVA

The Cultural Economics Research Group (GIEC/UVa) is the University of Valladolid research group dedicated to research and postgraduate teaching in the field of cultural economics. The team comprises faculty members and researchers from the Departments of Applied Economics and Financial Economics and Accounting at the University of Valladolid, together with researchers from the School of Economics at the National University of Colombia and the Statistics Institute at Austral University of Chile.

The team is multidisciplinary, bringing together economists specialising in applied economics and finance, as well as researchers with a background in statistics. This multidisciplinary composition provides an appropriate basis for pursuing the group’s founding objectives: research and teaching in the field of cultural economics.

The group is currently accredited as a University of Valladolid Recognised Research Group (GIR). This official recognition requires the group to have, at a minimum, as many six-year research assessment periods as it has ordinary members.

The group has gained academic recognition at both the national and international levels for its research in the field of cultural economics, with particular emphasis on the economics of historical heritage. Its most widely recognised areas of research include the economic valuation of cultural goods, the estimation of the economic impact of cultural events and festivals, and the efficiency analysis of cultural institutions.