Coates, Dennis; Humphreys, Brad R. - Economics Department, University of Maryland-Baltimore … - 2003
We investigate the possibility that new facilities affect attendance - the "novelty effect" - in professional baseball … strong, persistent novelty effect in baseball and basketball and little or no novelty effect in football. Our estimates of … size and duration of the novelty effect imply that, in a new facility, at a minimum, a baseball team would sell an …