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Integration of North and South American Players in Japan's Professional Baseball Leagues Teams in Japan’s two professional baseball leagues began to add foreign players to their ro...
Kawaura, Akihiko; La Croix, Sumner - University of Hawai'i Economic Research Organization … - 2011
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The shape of success: estimating contest success functions in sports
Peeters, Thomas - International Association of Sport Economists - IASE; … - 2011
4 major American sports leagues. I ?nd that Tullock CSFs based on relative efforts fit the data better than Hirshleifer …
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Do soccer players play the mixed-strategy Nash equilibrium?
Azar, Ofer H.; Bar-Eli, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Mixed-strategy Nash equilibrium (MSNE) is a commonly-used solution concept in game-theoretic models in various fields in economics, management, and other disciplines, but the experimental results whether the MSNE predicts well actual play in games is mixed. Consequently, evidence for...
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Estimating economic regional effects of Euro 2012.
Despiney, Barbara; Karpa, Waldemar - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2010
In 2007 Poland and Ukraine were awarded by UEFA to co-host the 2012 European Football Championships. This first "mega-event" to take place in the transition countries is commonly intended to yield large and lasting economic bebefits to the host cities. This point of view is rarely shared by...
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Sports Retailing in India : Opportunities, Constraints and Way Forward
Mukherjee, Arpita; Goswami, Ramneet; Goyal, Tanu M; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
Sports retail is a small but fast growing segment of modern retail in India. Recently, the country has been hosting … many international sports and this has given a boost to this sector. Many foreign and domestic corporate retailers have … entered sports retail. Sports goods manufacturing is a focus area in the Foreign Trade Policy (2009-2014) and the government …
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The Effect of Gambling on Health: Evidence from Canada
Humphreys, Brad; Nyman, John; Ruseski, Jane E. - Department of Economics, University of Alberta - 2011
The relationship between gambling and health has important economic and public policy implications. We develop causal evidence about the relationship between recreational gambling and health using data from the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) cycles 2.1, 3.1 and 4.1. Recreational...
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Integration of North and South American Players in Japan's Professional Baseball Leagues
LaCroix, Sumner; Kawaura, Akihiko - Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa - 2011
Teams in Japan’s two professional baseball leagues began to add foreign players to their rosters in the early 1950s, with the average number of foreign players per team reaching 5.79 in 2004. One reason for their increased use of foreign players was that foreign hitters substantially...
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The Paradox of Championships “Be Careful, Sports Fans, What You Wish For"
Matheson, Victor; Baade, Robert A. - Economics Department, Williams College - 2003
This paper examines issues related to the economic impact of sports championships on the local economy of host cities …
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Mega-Sporting Events in Developing Nations : Playing the Way to Prosperity?
Matheson, Victor; Baade, Robert A. - Economics Department, Williams College - 2003
Supporters of mega-sporting events such as the World Cup and Olympics claim that these events attract hoards of wealthy visitors and lead to lasting economic benefits for the host regions. For this reason, cities and countries compete vigorously for the right to stage these spectacles. Recently,...
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Super Bowl or Super (Hyper)Bole? Assessing the Economic Impact of America's Premier Sports Event
Matheson, Victor; Baade, Robert A. - Economics Department, Williams College - 2003
Civic boosters generally have estimated the Super Bowl to have an impact of $300 to $400 million on a host cityÂ’s economy. The National Football League (NFL) has used the promise of an economic windfall to convince skeptical cities that investments in new stadiums for their teams in exchange...
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