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Quantifying the intangible impact of the olympics using subjective well-being data
Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian; … - 2019
Hosting the Olympic Games costs billions of taxpayer dollars. Following a quasi- experimental setting, this paper assesses the intangible impact of the London 2012 Olympics, using a novel panel of 26,000 residents in London, Paris, and Berlin during the summers of 2011, 2012, and 2013. We show...
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Auswirkungen des Bundesverfassungsgerichtsurteils zum Sportwettmarkt auf die deutsche Volkswirtschaft
Hornuf, Lars; Britschkat, Günter; Lechner, Robert; … - 2006
On the basis of the Federal Constitutional Court ruling on the sports betting market from the 28th of March 2006 this … report describes four scenarios, which outline how the sports betting market could develop up to the year 2010 considering … determine the value added, employment and government revenue effects that are associated with the activities of the sports …
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Mega-Events and Sectoral Employment : The Case of the 1996 Olympic Games
Feddersen, Arne - 2017
This paper contributes to the analysis of large sporting events using highly disaggregated data. We use the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, which are also outstanding as one of the very few large sporting events where ex post academic analysis found significant positive effects. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955531
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Mega-Events and Sectoral Employment : The Case of the 1996 Olympic Games
Feddersen, Arne - 2017
Using the data of the 1996 Olympic Games, this paper analyzes the economic impact of a mega-sporting event. Earlier studies are extended in several ways. First, monthly rather than quarterly data are employed. Second, the impact is analyzed for 16 different sectors. Third, we use a nonparametric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956123
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Mega-Events and Sectoral Employment : The Case of the 1996 Olympic Games
Feddersen, Arne - 2011
This paper contributes to the analysis of large sporting events using highly disaggregated data. We use the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, which are also outstanding as one of the very few large sporting events where ex post academic analysis found significant positive effects. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123504
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The penalty-duel and institutional design: is there a Neeskens-effect?
Leininger, Wolfgang; Ockenfels, Axel - 2008
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264282
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Fördert sportliche Aktivität den beruflichen Aufstieg?
Müller, Michael - 2016
Higher wages for employees who are more active in sports have been demonstrated empirically several times before. They … (GSOEP), this study analyses whether active participation in sports fosters occupational promotion or the transfer of … significantly higher for individuals that participate more often in sports. Furthermore, personality traits that are more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436301
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Mozart or Pelé? : the effects of teenagers' participation in music and sports
Cabane, Charlotte; Hille, Adrian; Lechner, Michael - 2015
' leisure time on playing music or doing sports, or both. We find that while playing music fosters educational outcomes compared … to doing sports, particularly so for girls and children from more highly educated families, doing sports improves …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510696
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Wage and employment effects of the Olympic Games in Atlanta 1996 reconsidered
Feddersen, Arne; Maennig, Wolfgang - 2009
effects. We do, however, reaffirm their result of no significant wage effects. -- Olympic Games ; sports economics ; mega …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003883824
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Sports heroes and mass sports participation : the (double) paradox of the "German tennis boom"
Feddersen, Arne; Jacobsen, Sven; Maennig, Wolfgang - 2009
participation in that sport. This study is the first to analyse the impact of sports heroes on the membership figures of the … corresponding sports association by means of an econometric analysis. We do so by evaluating the so-called "Boris Becker effect" by …
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