Since some years Richard Florida's ideas on the creative class have attracted a great deal of theoretical and empirical attention. One part of his theory says that the "creative class" - people with highly creative and innovative abilities - are the driving force of regional economic...

A number of studies have been conducted trying to describe and estimate the regional economic effects of sports clubs, especially of soccer clubs. Most of these studies focus on demand-side effects because regional multiplier analysis seems to offer a powerful tool for this kind of estimations....