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Major events, networks and regional development
Jones, Calvin - In: Regional Studies 39 (2005) 2, pp. 185-195
Jones, C. (2005) Major events, networks and regional development, Regional Studies 39 , 185-195. There is currently a wave of interest in how social, political and economic institutions embedded within a region can encourage an improved economic performance, with their actions and interactions...
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Book Review: The Economics of Association Football
Watanabe, Nicholas M. - In: International Journal of Sport Finance 2 (2007) 3, pp. 171-172
A review of The Economics of Association Football, edited by Bill Gerrard.
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The Quest for the Cup: Assessing the Economic Impact of the World Cup
Baade, Robert; Matheson, Victor - In: Regional Studies 38 (2004) 4, pp. 343-354
Baade R. A. and Matheson V. A. (2004) The quest for the cup: assessing the economic impact of the World Cup, Reg. Studies 38, 343-354. Hosting the World Cup, the world's second largest sporting event, is a potentially expensive affair. The co-hosts of the 2002 games, Japan and South Korea, spent...
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Why the Olympics have three prizes and not just one
Blavatskyy, Pavlo - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …
There are at least two reasons why multiple prizes can be optimal in symmetric imperfectly discriminating contests. First, the introduction of multiple prizes reduces the standard deviation of contestants’ effort in asymmetric equilibria, when the majority of contestants actively participate...
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Going for the gold: Status-seeking behavior and Olympic performance
Jr, J. Patrick Rhamey; Early, Bryan R. - In: International Area Studies Review 16 (2013) 3, pp. 244-261
State competition for international status takes a variety of forms, but most are linked to states’ related pursuits of economic and/or military power. The Olympics offer a unique venue for states to compete with one another in a forum whose consequences do not directly spill over into...
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More than just a game?: Grass roots cricket and development in Mumbai, India
Bateman, Jerram; Binns, Tony - In: Progress in Development Studies 14 (2014) 2, pp. 147-161
Increased attention has been given to the concept of ‘development through sport’ in international development literature over the past decade. Within this literature, however, there has been little discussion of the implementation of ‘development through sport’...
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MORAL ORIENTATION AND GOAL ORIENTATION AS MEANS OF PREDICTION OF AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIORS IN HANDBALL PLAYERS
YANNAKOS, Ath; PROIOS, M.; PAPASTERGIOU, L. - In: Marathon 6 (2014) 1, pp. 107-119
Orientation in Physical Education Questionnaire (MOPEQ; Proios, 2010a) and Task and Ego Orientation in Sport Questionnaire (TEOSQ …
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An assessment of regional authorities preparedness for attracting non-governmental public services providers
Efremov, S. - In: Public administration issues (2013) 1, pp. 102-122
The article considers a subjective preparedness of regional administrations for attracting non-governmental providers of social services at the cost of the budget means. It is assumed, that this depends a lot on their understanding the necessity of the action, their successful experience in such...
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Good Girl, Bad Boy: Corrupt Behavior in Professional Tennis
Jetter, Michael; Walker, Jay K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper identifies matches on the male and female professional tennis tours in which one player faces a high payoff from being “on the bubble” of direct entry into one of the lucrative Grand Slam tournaments, while their opposition does not. Analyzing over 378,000 matches provides strong...
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Sport and Recreation as a Quality of Life Factor on Example of Poland
Rak, Agnieszka - ToKnowPress
The main purpose of this paper is to present the role that sport recreation may play and plays in consumer’s lives and … how it enriches the Quality of Life. Both sport organisations and governments (also EU) promote healthy life style …, nowadays, in which an important part the sport plays. An increase in popularity of recreation influences lives of many people …
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