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Competitive Balance in Olympic Boxing : 1904-2012

Chaplin, David; Mendoza, Sergio - 2012

Beginning with the seminal work in the field now known as sports economics (Rottenberg, 1956), concern over competitive … balance has been a recurring theme. While the vast majority of the focus has been on popular professional team sports, a few … studies have analyzed competitive balance in the individual sports of professional tennis (del Corral, 2009) and NASCAR (von …

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The Anti-Competitive Olympic Games

Pelanda, Brian - 2012

This article discusses the severe restrictions that the British government has put in place to prevent the practice of ambush marketing at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, and argues that United States law sufficiently addresses the concerns that the International Olympic Committee and its...

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What Goes into a Medal : Women's Inclusion and Success at the Olympic Games

Noland, Marcus; Stahler, Kevin - 2014

This paper examines determinants of women's participation and performance in the Olympics. Female inclusion and success are not merely functions of size, wealth, and host advantage, but a more complex process involving the socioeconomic status of women and, more weakly, broad societal attitudes...

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National Well-Being and International Sports Events

Kavetsos, Georgios - 2012

data covers three different major events: the Olympic Games, the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA European Championship. We find …

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The IOC's Midas Touch : Summer Olympics and City Growth

Nitsch, Volker - 2013

types of events. This paper examines the effect of staging the largest and most important sporting event in the world, the …

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Olympic Proportions : Cost and Cost Overrun at the Olympics 1960-2012

Flyvbjerg, Bent - 2014

, something that many cities and nations have learned to their peril.For the London 2012 Games, we find that: (1) With sports …

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Impacts of a mega sporting event on local carbon emissions : a case of the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympics

Zhang, Cheng; Zhou, Xinxin; Zhou, Bo; Zhao, Ziwei - In: China economic review : an international journal 73 (2022), pp. 1-17

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The Economics of International Sports Events

LI, ShiNa - 2013

This case study is part of the Contemporary Cases Online series. The series provides critical case studies that are original, flexible, challenging, controversial and research-informed, driven by the needs of teaching and learning.

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How long does a medal win last? : survival analysis of the duration of Olympic success

Csurilla, Gergely; Fertő, Imre - In: Applied economics 54 (2022) 43, pp. 5006-5020

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Patriot, expert, or complainer? : exploring how athletes express themselves at Olympic Games' press conferences

Li, Bo; Scott, Olan; Sharpe, Stirling; Stokowski, Sarah; … - In: Sport marketing quarterly : preferred journal of the … 31 (2022) 3, pp. 228-238

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