caa a22 4500 445871628 CHVBK 20180317145513.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10824-011-9143-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10824-011-9143-5 Baumol's cost disease, efficiency, and productivity in the performing arts: an analysis of german public theaters [Elektronische Daten] [Anne-Kathrin Last, Heike Wetzel] This paper analyzes the productivity development in the German public theater sector for the seasons 1991/1992 to 2005/2006. Using a stochastic distance frontier approach that allows decomposing total factor productivity change into different sources, we examine (a) whether Baumol's cost-disease hypothesis is valid in this sector and (b) if so, whether any negative influence of the cost-disease effect on productivity can be compensated by efficiency gains. The findings indicate an increase in real unit labor cost as a result of rising wage rates and thus do support the cost-disease hypothesis. Further, increasing returns to scale are observed for the majority of the theaters, implying that significant efficiency gains can be realized by the exploitation of scale economies. However, because of the increasing unit labor cost and an increasing scale inefficiency, we find an overall decrease in average productivity of about 8% within the sample period. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC., 2011 Public theaters nationallicence Stochastic frontier analysis nationallicence Cost disease nationallicence Efficiency nationallicence Productivity nationallicence Last Anne-Kathrin Institute of Economics, Leuphana University Lueneburg, P.O. Box 2440, 21314, Lüneburg, Germany aut Wetzel Heike Institute of Energy Economics, University of Cologne, Vogelsanger Str. 321, 50827, Cologne, Germany aut Journal of Cultural Economics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 35/3(2011-08-01), 185-201 0885-2545 35:3<185 2011 35 10824 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10824-011-9143-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10824-011-9143-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Last Anne-Kathrin Institute of Economics, Leuphana University Lueneburg, P.O. Box 2440, 21314, Lüneburg, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wetzel Heike Institute of Energy Economics, University of Cologne, Vogelsanger Str. 321, 50827, Cologne, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Cultural Economics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 35/3(2011-08-01), 185-201 0885-2545 35:3<185 2011 35 10824 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer