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How the ‘Hand of Henry’ Benefited the South African Economy
Fourie, Johan; Santana-Gallego, María - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2015
This paper highlights an aspect of mega-events that has been neglected: the changing composition of tourist arrivals during and after theevent. The change happens because, in the FIFA World Cup, a quota of countries participates from each continent and this opens up new tourismmarkets. We show...
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PROMOTING TOURIST DESTINATIONS THROUGH SPORT EVENTS. THE CASE OF BRASOV
CANDREA, Adina Nicoleta; ISPAS, Ana - In: Revista de turism - studii si cercetari in turism / … 10 (2010) 10, pp. 61-67
Sport event tourism is a huge and growing global industry with important economic implications for both the sport, the event and the impact of travel and tourism related benefits on host destinations. A primary function of a sport event is to provide the host community with an opportunity to...
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CALIDAD PERCIBIDA Y SATISFACCIÓN DE LOS ESPECTADORES DE FÚTBOL / PERCEIVED QUALITY AND SATISFACTION OF SPECTATORS FOOTBALL
Navarro-García, Antonio; Eugenia Reyes-García, María; … - In: Investigaciones Europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 20 (2014) 2, pp. 87-94
is to determine the influence of service quality on satisfaction of football spectators, looking scarcely investigated in … the literature. The results, from a sample of 700 spectators at a football club of the Spanish First Division, reveal … three main conclusions: (i) the quality of service of a football event is determined by both tangibles — infrastructure — as …
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Executive Interview: Allan Duckworth, Chief Executive, Burnden Leisure
Gerrard, Bill - In: International Journal of Sport Finance 1 (2006) 3, pp. 135-139
Burnden Leisure is the parent company of Bolton Wanderers Football Club, one of the oldest association football clubs …
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Who Gives More? A Comparative Perspective of Philanthropic Giving through Foundations within the UEFA and the NFL
Dietl, Helmut; Franck, Egon; Hillebrandt, Julia - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2010
Due to the specifics of the football governance systems and cultures of Europe and the United States, we hypothesize … that the charitable foundation involvement of the National Football League (NFL) and its teams is more pronounced than that … of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and its Champions League (UCL) clubs. On the basis of a literature …
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The sex differential in mortality: a historical comparison of the adult-age pattern of the ratio and the difference
Wisser, Oliver; Vaupel, James W. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2014
The ratio (RMR) is the standard measure of sex differentials in mortality. It is commonly known that the RMR was historically small and increased throughout the 20th century. However, numerical properties might account for the trend in the RMR rather than sex differences in risk factors. In this...
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Analytic Narratives
Bates, Robert H.; Greif, Avner; Levi, Margaret; … - Princeton University Press
European governments, while Margaret Levi examines the transformation of nineteenth-century conscription laws in France, the …
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Identifying European Monetary Policy Interactions: French and Spanish System with German Variables
Kim, Soyoung - Banco de España - 1998
This paper develops the "identified VAR" models of France and Spain with German monetary variables to identify monetary …
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Is employment of social risk groups the key to sustaining the European welfare regimes?
Josifidis, Kosta; Supic, Novica; Pucar, Emilija Beker; … - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 3 (2011) 6, pp. 623-640
The European welfare regimes face two sets of challenges. One internal, specific for the welfare state itself, and the other external, imposed by changing economic, political and economics conditions. The first challenge lies in the growing gap between the rigid welfare state design and flexible...
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Bank debt and performance of Continental European firms
Krivogorsky, Victoria; Grudnitski, Gary; Dick, Wolfgang - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 3 (2011) 6, pp. 593-608
When the source of external capital for Continental European firms is examined, debt markets have historically supplied a much larger percentage of the external capital than equity markets, and firms rely much more on bank debt than bonds for their external funds. In this environment banks have...
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