Süssmuth, Bernd; Heyne, Malte; Maennig, Wolfgang - In: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 72 (2010) 2, pp. 202-220
Does a nation's contingent value of hosting a mega event depend on past experience with implied benefits? Applying data from "ex-ante" and "ex-post" queries, we use the FIFA World Cup 2006 to address this question. The "ex-post" increase in valuation is shown to be owing to citizens requiring an...