Li, Hongbin; Meng, Lingsheng; Wang, Qian - In: Applied Economics 41 (2009) 25, pp. 3313-3318
This article examines the determinants of China's Olympic success by drawing on provincial-level data. We find that it is government spending on sports, rather than per capita income, that has the greatest impact on this success. Our findings suggest that government involvement is still the most...