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; regional economics ; sports economics ; World Cup ; Durban …For the FIFA World Cup 2010, South Africa plans to invest heavily. The positive economic effects that the country is …, usually from research under-taken in the USA, can only be generalised to a limited degree. The density of sports venues in …
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presence of customer discrimination and test this model using data on sports facility construction over the period 1950 …-2004. The empirical evidence suggests that teams in cities with more racial segregation spend less on sports facilities …
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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...
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We study the link between family violence and the emotional cues associated with wins and losses by local professional football teams. We hypothesize that the risk of violence is affected by the 'gain-loss' utility of game outcomes around a rationally expected reference point. Our empirical...
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