摘要：Ertibil Bizkaia and Arteshop Bilbao are two publicly financed institutional calls for the promotion of emerging artists in the context of the Basque Country, with both distinct and similar characteristics. In this paper, we examine the regulations that base the functioning of these calls to analyse the distribution of the budgets both programmes allocate to compensate for the work of the participant artists, during the period from 2012 and 2016. We also pay attention to the results of the competitive tenders of the artists in terms of concurrence and participation.  The results confirm the main features of Thorsby’s theory of artists’ work preference (1994) and Frank and Cook’s (1995) theory of winner-take-all markets.
关键词：art; economics; public finance; culture; Basque Country
