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On the dynamic of franchise (re)location in the North-American sport leagues

Narme, Thibaut - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

As the cost of tax-dollar paid stadia rises and the talks of relocations in the main North-American pro leagues increase, a multi-field analysis on the different mechanisms that decides team relocation seems necessary. This paper reviews the different mechanisms participating team location and...

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Qualitative and quantitative analysis of the sport tourism from the perspective of romanian young adults

Meşter, Ioana; Bădulescu, Alina; Bâc, Octavian; Bac, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Sport, as a passive or dynamic activity has an important role in our lives. It has become a social phenomenon. At the … tickets, sponsorships and TV rights. Tourism is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. Sport tourism involves … importance of sport tourism for young adults in Romania. With the help of questionnaires we will try to find out the importance …

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Sport Practice Tourism: a segment of the Sport Tourism Market

Carvalho, Pedro G.; Lourenço, Rui - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Sport Tourism represents the knowledge and the group of practices where Sport and Tourism became interdependent. This … overlapping area turns clearly at two levels that might be named by Sport Tourism Spectacle and Sport Tourism Practice. According … to Pigeassou [9] the foundations of sport tourism do not consist purely of classifying sport tourism activities using …

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Home Team Advantage in the NBA: The Effect of Fan Attendance on Performance

La, Vincent - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Our study aims to estimate the effect of fan attendance on performance in the National Basketball Association (NBA). We use game day and adverse weather as instruments for attendance. Using two-stage least squares, we fail to find a statistically significant effect of attendance on overall game...

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The Tourism Industry in Italy during the Great Recession (2008-12): What Data Show and Suggest

Cellini, Roberto; Cuccia, Tiziana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

– The purpose of this article is to describe the evolution of the tourism industry in Italy during the recent years of the so-called ‘Great recession’ (2008-12). We highlight the most prominent features of the changes occurred in both the supply and the demand side, over these years. We...

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Determinants of tourist expenditure: a review of microeconometric models

Brida, Juan Gabriel; Scuderi, Raffaele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper presents a comprehensive review of the econometric approaches for the analysis of tourism expenditure at individual level. The attempt to consider only regression models is novel in literature. The paper resumes 86 papers and 354 estimates of econometric models from data at individual...

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Tourismuspolitik in Marokko: ein großer Wurf für wirtschaftliche Entwicklung?

Benner, Maximilian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Recent political transformations in Arab countries suggest that solutions have to be found for the problem of lacking economic prospects and particularly of high youth unemployment. Such solutions have to consist of economic growth that unfolds widespread employment effects. A tourism policy...

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Análisis de los factores que afectan la repetición de la visita a una atracción cultural: una aplicación al museo de Antioquia

Brida, Juan Gabriel; Monterubbianesi, Pablo Daniel; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This study analyzes the behavior of repeat visitors to a cultural resource, in this case the Museum of Antioquia in Medellin (Colombia), by estimating travel cost model. The empirical results highlight issues such as women are more likely to re-visit the museum that age is also an important...

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Migration and Inbound Tourism: An Italian Perspective

Etzo, Ivan; Massidda, Carla; Piras, Romano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper investigates the impact of migration on Italian inbound tourism flows in a dynamic panel data framework. Arrivals, expenditure and nights from 65 countries are analyzed for the period 2005-2011. The migration variable is defined at both origin and destination in order to assess the...

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Nobody's innocent: the role of customers in the doping dilemma

Buechel, Berno; Emrich, Eike; Pohlkamp, Stefanie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

To which extent high performances in professional sports are based on the use of illicit substances or other doping practices is extremely difficult to measure empirically. Game-theoretical approaches predict strong incentives to dope based on the interaction among athletes (prisoner's dilemma)...

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