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...

To the best of our knowledge nobody has attempted to elaborate on an economic model for predicting medal wins at the Winter Olympics so far. This contrasts with Summer Olympics for which about thirty studies have estimated economic determinants of sporting performances (among which Andreff, 2001;...

This paper uses forecasting techniques to predict outcomes in the Beijing Olympics and 2010 World Cup using economic variables.

In this study we provide an empirical evidence on sport inactivity as an important risk factor for several chronic diseases, accounting for a significant part of related economic burden of disease. Applying cost-of-illness methodology to cost data for a sample of noncommunicable diseases in...

This paper explores the decision to participate in sports activities and the subsequent frequency of participation using data from a big German city, Munich, representative sample of individuals in 2008. Individual and socio-economic variables characterizing the individuals were collected. A new...