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dc.contributor.authorLast, Anne-Kathrinen
dc.contributor.authorWetzel, Heikeen
dc.date.accessioned2009-09-02-
dc.date.accessioned2010-04-26T12:05:12Z-
dc.date.available2010-04-26T12:05:12Z-
dc.date.issued2009-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/30224-
dc.description.abstractIn recent years the economic performance of public non-profit sectors such as cultural services has become an interesting economic issue. This is due to the high dependence of cultural institutions on public funding on the one hand and the increasing cost-pressure on public budgets on the other hand. In order to achieve an efficiently, cost-minimizing resource allocation public authorities who decide on the distribution of public budgets need reliable performance indicators. Against this background, this paper analyzes the efficiency of German public theaters for the seasons 1991/1992 to 2005/2006. Using a stochastic frontier analysis approach, we test whether the assumption of cost-minimizing behavior is reliable in this sector. Moreover, several panel data models that differ in their ability to account for unobserved heterogeneity are applied to evaluate the impact of unobserved heterogeneity on the efficiency estimates. The results indicate that the cost-minimizing assumption cannot be maintained. Consequently, an efficiency analysis based on a cost function approach seems inappropriate in the case of German public theaters. Further, we find a considerably unobserved heterogeneity across the theaters, which causes a significant variation in the models' efficiency estimates. This implies that failing to account for unobserved heterogeneity leads to biased efficiency values. Overall, our results suggest that there is still space for improvement in the employment of resources in the sector.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aLeuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre |cLüneburgen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aWorking Paper Series in Economics |x134en
dc.subject.jelL82en
dc.subject.jelD24en
dc.subject.jelZ10en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordPublic theatersen
dc.subject.keywordefficiencyen
dc.subject.keywordstochastic frontier analysisen
dc.subject.keywordinput distance functionen
dc.subject.keywordcultural economicsen
dc.titleThe efficiency of German public theaters: a stochastic frontier analysis approach-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn608041068en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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