Economic aspects of sacral heritage
Beata Sadowska
University of Szczecin , Polandhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4190-9440
Katarzyna Chudy-Laskowska
Rzeszów University of Technology , Polandhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7797-2858
Nina Stępnicka
Jan Kochanowski University of Kielce , Polandhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3060-2876
Małgorzata Węgrzyńska
University of Life Sciences in Poznań , Polandhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3967-2632
Ewa Zimon
Provincial and Municipal Public Library in Rzeszów , Polandhttps://orcid.org/0009-0005-1521-0531
Grzegorz Zimon
Politechnika Rzeszowska , Polandhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2040-4438
Abstract
The main purpose of the study was the perception of monuments of religious art by a social unit from the perspective of behavioural economics and behavioural finance. The specific purpose is to find an answer to the following question: Would a social unit be willing to pay a tax for the protection of monuments of religious art, and if "yes" then how much? The study was prepared on the basis of a review of the source literature and the results of the authors' own empirical research. This study applied a secondary literature analysis, a qualitative method (a document analysis approach and an observation), and quantitative methods (surveys). A Kruskal-Wallis ANOVA test and a Pearson's chisquare test were used. A church is a structure that is the most commonly associated with a monument of religious art, the surveyed persons rated the highest the development of tourism by locating monuments of religious art in a given town, whereas the benefits of a social unit were rated the lowest. Economics and finance are seen here as areas influenced by the fact that a monument of religious art is part of a given locality - the development of religious tourism generates higher revenues for local government budgets and allows the development of cities or regions. At the same time, these material benefits apply to the macro level, whereas on the micro level (a unit, a person) there are spiritual and emotional benefits instead of material instead of material ones. Only 5% of the surveyed persons are willing to pay a tax for the preservation of monuments.
Keywords:
behavioural economics, behavioural finance, economic, heritage, valueReferences
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