- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
- handke@eshcc.eur.nl
Profile
Christian Handke is Associate Professor of Cultural Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam. From 2012 to 2018, he was programme director of the Master in Cultural Economics and Entrepreneurship, and since 2017, he serves in the Faculty Council. Starting in 2012, Dr. Handke has also worked at the Institute of Information Law at University of Amsterdam, where he participated in the research project on Copyright in an Age of Access.
Dr. Handke's research focuses on cultural economics and the economics of copyright, innovation and technological change, cultural/creative and media industries, as well as on text and data mining and systematic literature reviews. His work has been published in leading specialized journals, such as the Journal of Cultural Economics and Information Economics & Policy.
In 2010, Christian Handke received his doctorate in economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam with highest distinction. His dissertation was short-listed for the Boekman Dissertation Prize 2012. He also holds an M.A. with distinction in 'Science, Technology and Society' from Linköping University (Sweden) and a B.A. (Hons) in European Studies from the University of North London. Between 2003 and 2007, Christian was junior lecturer/researcher at Humboldt University Berlin, Centre for British Studies, where he participated in the research project on Commerce and Culture.
Dr. Handke has consulted for a variety of public and private organizations, including the European Commission, the National Academies of the Sciences (USA), Industry Canada, the UK Intellectual Property Office, the federal German Expert Commission on Research and Innovation (EFI), the federal German Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection, and the Spanish Fundacion Autor. He also has work experience in cultural event management, for instance for the EXPO 2000 world exhibition in Hannover, and as music producer.
Christian Handke is currently President of the Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues (SERCI) and Executive Board member of the Association of Cultural Economics International (ACEI).
For further information, please consult Christian Handke's CV.
- Christian Handke & Carolina Dalla Chiesa (2022) - The art of crowdfunding arts and innovation: the cultural economic perspective - Journal of Cultural Economics, 46 (2), 1-36 - doi: 10.1007/s10824-022-09444-9 - [link]
- Christian Handke, L Guibault & J J Vallbe (2021) - Copyright’s Impact on Data Mining in Academic Research - Managerial and Decision Economics, 42 (8), 1999-2016 - doi: 10.1002/mde.3354 - [link]
- Christian Handke (2020) - Compensation Systems for Online Use - [link]
- Carolina Dalla Chiesa & Christian Handke (2020) - Crowdfunding - [link]
- Christian Handke (2020) - Music Industry - [link]
- Christian Handke (2020) - Paying for Digital Music
- Christian Herzog, Christian Handke & Erik Hitters (2019) - Analyzing Talk and Text II: Thematic analysis - doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-16065-4 - [link]
- J J Vallbe, B Bodo, J P Quintais & Christian Handke (2019) - Knocking on Heaven’s Door: User preferences on digital cultural distribution - Internet Policy Review : journal on internet regulation, 8 (2) - doi: 10.14763/2019.2.1404 - [link]
- Christian Handke, JP Quintais & B Bodo (2019) - Truce in the Copyright War? The Economics of Copyright Compensation Systems for Digital Use - Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 15 (2), 23-56 - [link]
- Christian Handke, Carolina Dalla Chiesa & A Pavlova (2018) - 'Where Are We Now on Cultural Economics’ version 2.0: A Bibliometric Survey
- Christian Handke (2018) - Innovationen in der Filmbranche – mehr als Technik
- Christian Handke & Christian Herzog (2018) - Experimental methods in media policy research
- Christian Handke, RM (Ruth) Towse & P Stepan (2017) - Cultural Economics, the Internet and Participation - [link]
- Christian Handke & Christian Herzog (2017) - Entscheidungsexperimente als Grundlage für die Bewertung und Ausgestaltung öffentlich-rechtlicher Medienangebote - doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-17997-7_26
- Christian Handke (2017) - Intellectual Property in the Creative Industries: The Economic Perspective - [link]
- Christian Handke (2017) - Musikwirtschaftsforschung und das Internet – Wie sich nicht nur die Muskindustrie, sondern auch die Forschung verändert
- Christian Handke, RM (Ruth) Towse & P Stepan (2016) - Cultural Economics and the Internet - [link]
- Christian Handke (2016) - Urheberverguetung im Digitalen Zeitalter - Der Internationale Forschungsstand - [link]
- Christian Handke (2021) - Compensation Systems to Fix Copyright Conundrums: The Cultural Economics Perspective
- Christian Handke (2021) - Incentives for New Initiatives – Costs and Potential New Trade-offs in the Data Economy
- Christian Handke (2020) - Our collective future in cultural industries: An economic analysis of copyright management organizations and digitalization
- Christian Handke (2019) - Data, Technology and Copyright Management in the Era of Streaming Platforms
- Christian Handke (2019) - Economics of Copyright and Empirical Research
- Christian Handke (2019) - What Are Cultural Industries – and Why Do We Care?
- Christian Handke (2018) - Truce in the Copyright War – An Economist’s Perspective
- Christian Handke (2018) - Market Power in the Information Economy: Price competition with fixed Costs and Incomplete Market Capture
- Carolina Dalla Chiesa, Christian Handke & A Pavlova (2018) - Crowdfunding in the Cultural and Creative Industries: a Bibliometric-thematic analysis
- Christian Handke (2017) - Technology changes, economic laws stay the same? A response to Lemley’s ‘IP in a world without scarcity’
Innovation and Cultural Industries
- Level
- MA
- Year
- 2022
- Year Level
- MA
- Course Code
- CC4106
Cultural Economics: Theory
- Level
- MA
- Year
- 2022
- Year Level
- MA
- Course Code
- CC4111
Master Thesis
- Level
- MA
- Year
- 2022
- Year Level
- MA
- Course Code
- CC4150