Decentralisation and Efficiency in Municipal Sports Services: Expenditure vs. Cost
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Economic efficiency Sport governance Two-step analysis
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2021Referencia bibliográfica
Garcia-Unanue, J.; Felipe, J.L.; Gallardo, L.; Majano, C.; Perez-Lopez, G. Decentralisation and Efficiency in Municipal Sports Services: Expenditure vs. Cost. Sustainability 2021, 13, 2260. https:// doi.org/10.3390/su13042260
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Universidad Europea de Madrid 2017/UEM24Abstract
The choice of service delivery form (direct management, agencification, or indirect management) is one of the most important decisions in the strategic planning of sports systems. However, its
influence on efficiency has not been adequately studied in the scientific literature. The aim of this
paper is to analyse the service delivery form of sports services on cost efficiency and to study the
implications the use of different inputs has for the analysis of cost efficiency in sports services. To
answer the objectives of the study, the analysis is divided into three stages. First, the cost efficiency
of municipal sports services is estimated through the partial order-m robust frontiers using two
different measures of cost (budgetary expenditures and effective cost). Then, the two cost-efficiency
estimations were compared by the Li test to analyse the existence of significant differences. Finally,
cost efficiency was regressed on several environmental factors by a bootstrapped truncated regression.
The results show that there is no significant relationship between the different forms of management
when the effective cost is included as an input. However, there is a significant relationship when
the budgetary expenditure is specified as input; in this case, direct municipal management is the
delivery form with the highest efficiency.