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Too busy for school? : the effect of athletic participation on absenteeism

Cuffe, Harold E.; Waddell, Glen R.; Bignell, Wesley - 2014

While existing research supports that participation in high-school athletics is associated with better education and labour-market outcomes, the mechanisms through which these benefits accrue are not well established. We use data from a large public-school district to retrieve an estimate of the...

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Football spectator no-show behavior in Switzerland : empirical evidence from season ticket holder behavior

Schreyer, Dominik; Torgler, Benno - 2021 - This version: February 10, 2021

Swiss Super League club. Analyzing a rich data set containing roughly 2.09 million attendance decisions made by ticket …

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Spatial attendance spillover in football leagues

Jang, Hayley; Shin, Yongcheol - In: International journal of empirical economics 1 (2022) 3, pp. 1-24

We analyse the spatial attendance spillover applying spatial panel-data models with the Italian Football League data … on attendance distribution and then competitive balance; spillover implies an interaction between the two exclusive … create attendance variations across member teams. The final outcome depends on the spillover sign, the network structure, and …

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Game of Organizing International Cricket: Co-Existence of Country-Line and Club-Line Games

Das, Satya Prasanna - 2008

The paper presents an economic model of interaction between cricket boards, players and international club-line games sponsors like ICL or IPL. It attempts to capture the inherent conflict between such games and country-line games traditionally organized by cricket boards. It identifies the...

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Game of Organizing International Cricket: Co-Existence of Country-Line and Club-Line Games

Das, Satya Prasanna - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-32, pp. 1-29

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The willigness to pay for a German win of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil

Bakkenbüll, Linn-Brit; Dilger, Alexander - 2015

We examine the value of sporting success of the 2014 Football World Cup in Brazil by using a method that allows measuring non-market goods, the contingent valuation method (CVM). Besides the value of sporting success in form of the willingness-to-pay (WTP), we determine what influences the WTP...

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London 2012: Medal projection

Maennig, Wolfgang; Wellbrock, Christian - 2012

We project the medal number and medal ranking for the Olympic Games in London in 2012. The largest relative increase is predicted for Brazil (80% more medals) and the UK (+28%). UK will continue to rank 4th. The largest decreases in medal numbers are predicted for Australia (-13%, but remains in...

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The Olympic effect: A reply

Maennig, Wolfgang; Richter, Felix - 2011

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

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Fußball-WM in Südafrika: kaum wirtschaftlicher Nutzen, aber ein Beitrag zum Nation Building

Huschka, Denis; Bruhn, Anja; Wagner, Gert G. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 23, pp. 11-18

Südafrika wird als erster afrikanischer Staat eine Fußballweltmeisterschaft ausrichten. Dies ist eine große Aufgabe für eine junge Nation, die zwar wirtschaftlich prosperiert, aber immer noch schwer an den Lasten der Apartheid trägt und in vielerlei Hinsicht der Dritten Welt angehört. Der...

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The relationship between visitor satisfaction, expectation andspending in a sport event

Mortazavi, Reza - In: European Research on Management and Business Economics … 27 (2021) 1, pp. 1-7

There are many studies on the determinants of visitor spending at sport events. However, few studiesinvestigate the effect of satisfaction on spending and even fewer relate this to visitor expectations. Thepresent study examines the case of the World Ski Championships 2015 which were held in...

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