Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/323216 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
KIT Working Paper Series in Economics No. 171
Publisher: 
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre (ECON), Karlsruhe
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.
Subjects: 
Group decisions and negotiations
multi-criteria decision making
aggregation of incomplete lists
Nash collective utility function
top violinists
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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