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This paper investigates the regional economic impact of the 1996 Olympic Games in Georgia. It questions the findings of Hotchkiss, Moore, and Zobay (2003), who identify significant positive effects of the Olympics on employment in Georgia/USA by first challenging their approach that used a level...
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Using the case of the new stadiums for the FIFA World Cup 2006 in Germany, this paper is the first multivariate work that examines the potential income and employment effects of new stadiums outside of the USA. This study is also the first work on this topic that conducts tests on the basis of a...
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This study analyses the sports infrastructure of Hamburg, Germany, from the residents’ perspective. Empirical evidence … is provided for the Sports Place Theory developed by BALE (2003) using a micro-level dataset of 1,319 sports facilities …’ endowment of sports infrastructure is captured by potentiality variables, while accounting for natural and unnatural barriers …
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Using the case of the new stadiums for the FIFA World Cup 2006 in Germany, this paper is the first multivariate work that examines the potential income and employment effects of new stadiums outside of the USA. This study is also the first work on this topic that conducts tests on the basis of a...
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One of the central particularities in sports leagues is the fact that the clubs compete with each other on the input … sports leagues have created rules and instruments to provide for financial and/or competitive balance across individual teams …
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When decisions are made to construct new stadia or to undertake major renovation work, the decision makers often assume that more spectators will be attracted. This so-called “novelty effect” is used as an argument that an impulse towards increased demand for the region and its services will...
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