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 …

The analysis of international trade in sports goods is still in its infancy. Only four articles dealing with the topic … have appeared in economic literature so far. In order to alleviate the sports economists ignorance about international … specialisation in sports goods trade, we started to build up an entirely new dataset based on extracting data available in Comtrade …