Cultural institutions are the main beneficiaries of public funds for culture. However, cultural policies suffer from ‘adhocism’ in the administration of institutions, which are often publicly owned and receive little recognition of the benefits that society gains from their use. The aim of this study is to provide the measurement of the use value of access to cultural institutions. Based on the observed individual attendances and their costs, a two-stage budgeting model is employed to estimate the change in consumer surplus related to the loss of access to cinemas, museums, and theatres in Warsaw, Poland. It is the first non-market valuation of cinemas in the existing literature. The inclusion of institutions’ entire markets helps to overcome the bias caused by the embedding effect and the availability of substitutes, which affects many single-site valuations. The estimated use values are compared with the subsidies received by the three groups of cultural institutions. Results reveal substantial benefits provided by cinemas, although cinemas are nearly excluded from the circulation of public support. The estimated use value is enough to justify subsidies for both highly subsidised sectors of museums and theatres. The estimation of use values serves as a starting point for the evaluation of the use of public resources.

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进入文化机构的经济评估：博物馆、剧院和电影院

文化机构是公共文化资金的主要受益者。然而，文化政策在机构管理中受到“临时性”的影响，这些机构往往是公有的，社会从其使用中获得的利益很少得到认可。本研究的目的是提供对文化机构使用价值的衡量。根据观察到的个人出席率及其成本，采用两阶段预算模型来估计与波兰华沙无法进入电影院、博物馆和剧院相关的消费者剩余变化。这是现有文献中首次对电影院进行非市场估值。纳入机构的整个市场有助于克服由嵌入效应和替代品的可用性引起的偏差，这会影响许多单站点估值。估算使用价值与三组文化机构获得的补贴进行比较。结果显示电影院提供了巨大的好处，尽管电影院几乎被排除在公众支持的流通之外。估计的使用价值足以证明对博物馆和剧院这两个高补贴部门的补贴是合理的。使用价值的估算是评估公共资源使用情况的起点。估计的使用价值足以证明对博物馆和剧院这两个高补贴部门的补贴是合理的。使用价值的估算是评估公共资源使用情况的起点。估计的使用价值足以证明对博物馆和剧院这两个高补贴部门的补贴是合理的。使用价值的估算是评估公共资源使用情况的起点。