Does the Financial Self-sufficiency of Municipalities Affect Efficiency of the Museums which they Founded? (A Case Study from the Czech Republic)
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https://doi.org/10.4335/15.3.479-494(2017)Keywords:
efficiency, decentralization, public sector, museums, Czech RepublicAbstract
This paper analyzes and discusses the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of museums run by municipalities. It tests the hypothesis that municipalities with higher levels of income self-sufficiency can more efficiently manage museums than municipalities with lower levels of financial self-sufficiency. For our analysis, we used financial data for the years 2015 to analyze the efficiency of museums using data envelopment analysis (DEA). To test the hypothesis about the impact of financial self-sufficiency, we use regression analysis. The results obtained did not confirmed the hypothesis.
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Jovanović, P. & Benković, S. (2012) Improvements in Organizing Public Procurement at the Local Self-Government Level in Serbia, Management, 64, pp. 25-32.
Jovanović, P., Joksimović, N. Ž. & Milosavljevic, M. S. (2013) The Efficiency of Public Procurement Centralization: Empirical Evidence from Serbian Local Self- governments, Lex Localis – Journal of local self -government, 11(4), pp. 883-899.
Lockwood, B. (2007). Voting, Lobbying, and the Decentralization Theorem. University of Warwick and CEPR, available on: https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/blockwood/dtmarch31.pdf.
Matějová, L., Plaček, M., Křápek, M., Půček, M. & Ochrana,F. (2014) Economies of scale – empirical evidence from the Czech Republic, Proceedia Economics and Finance, 12, pp. 403–411.
Mookherjee, D. (2015) Political Decentralization, Annual Review of Economics, 7, pp. 231-249.
Nemec, J., Meričková, B. & Štrangfeldová, J. (2010) The Ownership Form of Hospitals from the Viewpoints of Economic Theory and Slovak Practice, E + M Economics a Management, 13(2), pp. 19 – 31.
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Oates, W. (1972) Fiscal Federalism (New York: Harcourt-Brace).
Plaček, M., Matějová, L., Křápek, M., Půček, M. & Ochrana, F. (2014). Decentralization vs economies of scale: expenditure on maintenance of municipalities’ property. In Sedmihradská, L. (ed.) Proceedings of the 19th International Conference: Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Public Finance 2014. 1. vyd. (Praha: Wolters Kluwer), pp. 228-236.
Seifert, S. & Nieswand, M. (2013) What drives intermediate local governments spending efficiency: The case of French Départements, Local Government Studies, 40(5), pp. 766-790.
Soukopová, J., Nemec, J., Matějová, L. & Struk, M., (2014) Municipality Size and Local Public Services - Do Economies of Scale Exist?, NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy, 7(2), pp. 151-171, https://doi.org/10.2478/nispa-2014-0007.
Šťastná, L. & Gregor, M. (2015) Public sector efficiency in transition and beyond evidence from Czech local governments, Applied economy, 47(7), pp. 680-699.
Tiebout, Ch. (1956) A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures, Journal of Political Economy, 64(5), pp. 416–424, https://doi.org/10.1086/257839.
Treisman, D. (2000) The causes of corruption: A cross-national study, Journal of Public Economics, 76(3), pp. 399–457.
Taheri, H. & Ansari, S. (2013) Measuring the relative efficiency of cultural-historical museums in Tehran: DEA approach, Journal of Cultural Heritage, 14, pp. 431-438.
Tommasi, M. & Weinschelbaum, F. (2007) Centralization vs. Decentralization: A principal-agent analysis, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 9(2). pp. 369-389, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9779.2007.00311.x.
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