SUMMARYKey words: sporting event, economic impact and evaluation methods.The object of the work: sporting event’s economic impact’s evaluation methods analysis.Problem (research) question: Is cost – benefit analysis more effective than economic impact analysis evaluating event’s economic...

This is a preliminary draft of an Invited Symposium paper for the World Congress of the Econometric Society to be held in Seattle in August 2000. We discuss the strong connections between auction theory and 'standard' economic theory, and argue that auction-theoretic tools and intuitions can...