This paper considers the decision of whether or not to subsidise sports events and facilities in light of the recent developments in V8 Super Car racing in New Zealand. Such a decision is never made in complete isolation, because there is usually competition for the right to host events or build...

The vast majority of research into the economic impacts of sports stadiums and franchises fail to find any evidence of positive contributions of professional sports teams or stadium construction to employment, wages/salaries and economic growth. In this study, the case of a New Zealand city,...

This paper develops a model of attendance for provincial rugby in New Zealand by considering representative games played in Wanganui from 1972-1994. The model is comparable with similar studies in that it encompasses economic and sport-specific dimensions of game attendance. The price elasticity...

The stochastic frontier production model methodology developed by Battese and Coelli (1992) and applied to American football by Hofler and Payne (1996) is applied to team pointscoring in the (Australasian) National Rugby League (NRL) competition, using performance-influencing and game-specific...

Coates and Humphreys (1999) examined the growth effects of professional sport franchises, stadia and arenas for three major professional sports in the United States (football, baseball and basketball). This paper re-examines the effects of the four major league sports in the US (as above with...

In recent years, the modelling of production in sport has emerged as a growing sub-set of production economics. There have been numerous studies concerned with the production processes within sport, with studies on football, basketball, baseball, ice hockey, cricket, and rugby league. This paper...