| Article ID: | iaor20111417 |
| Volume: | 35 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 5 |
| End Page Number: | 13 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2011 |
| Journal: | Journal of Productivity Analysis |
| Authors: | Barros Pestana, Garcia-del-Barrio Pedro |
| Keywords: | efficiency, productivity, soccer |
This paper analyses efficiency drivers of a representative sample of Spanish football clubs by means of the two‐stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) procedure proposed by Simar and Wilson (2007). In the first stage, the technical efficiency of football clubs is estimated using a bootstrapped DEA model in order to establish which of them are the most efficient; the ranking is based on total productivity in the period 1996–2004. In the second stage, the Simar and Wilson (2007) procedure is used to bootstrap the DEA scores with a truncated bootstrapped regression. Policy implications of the main findings are also considered.