Umweltforschung und Umweltschutz sind keineswegs nur Gegenstand der Naturwissenschaften, sondern empirische Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften und haben in diesem Problemfeld auch ihren wichtigen Platz. Die entsprechende empirische Forschung dient vor allem zwei Zwecken: zum einen der...

Rose & Spiegel (2011) find that Olympic Games host countries experience significant positive, lasting effects on exports. They interpret their results as an indication that countries use the hosting of such events to signal openness and competitiveness. We challenge these empirical findings on...

The prospect of hosting the Olympic Games is attractive to many cities around the world. This article examines 147 variables' potential to discriminate successful from unsuccessful Olympic bids. Our stepwise, rank-ordered logistic regression model includes nine determinants supporting the...

For the FIFA World Cup 2010, South Africa plans to invest heavily. The positive economic effects that the country is hoping for stand in contrast to almost all statistical ex-post studies. This contribution emphasises that these results, usually from research under-taken in the USA, can only be...