Dans le cadre du programme de recherche « cheval et territoire », est menée une étude portant sur l’impact économique, social et environnemental des manifestations équestres. En 2012, l’équipe responsable du programme a, entre autres, travaillé sur l’impact économique de deux...

Les activités équestres connaissent depuis une trentaine d’années un développement spectaculaire. Ainsi, le nombre de licenciés de la Fédération Française d’Equitation est passé de 266000 en 1992 à plus de 700000 en 2011, la plaçant comme troisième fédération sportive nationale...

Friendly sporting events involving national teams have been completely ignored by the scientific literature with regard to their contribution to the economy of the host territories. Nevertheless, this is a central issue for public management, since these events are part of an annual calendar of...

The purpose of this paper is to apply the tournament theory on professional male tennis players. Two new performance indicators are introduced, to take into account the opponent level. Empirical tests are conducted, by using the Ordinary Least Squares method, on the whole tournaments played by...

An economic impact assessment alone cannot justify public support for hosting mega-sporting events. A cost-benefit analysis in order to measure the net social utility for the population is also relevant. Nevertheless, if there is always a high demand of economic impact studies by public...

The Rugby World Cup (RWC) can be considered as a globalized mega-sporting event. The economic analysis of the impact of such great sporting events is always at the origin of controversial debates between the economists. Many methodological problems arise to make this calculation correctly and...

Une aide publique des grands événements sportifs ne peut être justifiée par une seule étude d’impact économique. Il est nécessaire de mesurer aussi l’utilité sociale dans le cadre d’une analyse coûts/bénéfices. Cela permet de comparer les coûts engendrés pour la communauté...

In France, equestrian sports and leisure have been growing since the 1990s. Consequently the number of equestrian events has multiplied. For example, 120,000 equestrian competitions were organized in 2012 and their number has increased by 111% in 10 years. As a result we wonder in what ways...