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Exports and olympic games : is there a signal effect?
Maennig, Wolfgang; Richter, Felix - 2012 - Vers.: January 2012
Rose & Spiegel (2011) find that Olympic Games host countries experience significant positive, lasting effects on exports. They interpret their results as an indication that countries use the hosting of such events to signal openness and competitiveness. We challenge these empirical findings on...
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The effect of the Olympic Games on the tourism industry of the host country
Tsiotsou, Rodoula H.; Gouri, Nicole - In: Marketing and management sciences : proceedings of the …, (pp. 334-338). 2010
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Sport events and firm performance : empirical analysis for the support industry
Menz, Markus - In: Sport zwischen Recht, Wirtschaftlichkeit und Kultur, (pp. 369-388). 2007
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The Causal Economic Effects of Olympic Games on Host Regions
Firgo, Matthias - 2020
This paper studies the effects of hosting Olympic Games on the regional economy in the short and long run. For identification, runners-up in the Olympic bidding process are used to construct the counterfactual for Olympic host regions. In the short run, hosting Summer Olympics boosts regional...
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Does the World Cup Get the Economic Ball Rolling? Evidence from a Synthetic Control Approach
Viana, Jorge H. N. - 2018
In this paper we analyze the impact of hosting the FIFA Soccer World Cup on GDP per capita in a worldwide sample of …, support the general claim that World Cups are not statistically associated to development and economic growth …
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How Mega-Events Capture Their Hosts : Event Seizure and the World Cup 2018 in Russia
Müller, Martin - 2017
priorities on cities and citizens. It illustrates how event seizure plays out in the preparations for the Football World Cup 2018 … in Russia, which is on course to become the most expensive World Cup ever with a total cost of about USD 20 billion. The …-related infrastructure, particularly sports venues, crowd out infrastructure that serves wider urban needs. Second, financial seizure, where …
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Circus maximus : the economic gamble behind hosting the Olympics and the World Cup
Zimbalist, Andrew S. - 2020 - Third edition
"This is a third edition of a book that analyzes the claim that cities chosen to host either an Olympics or World Cup … experience an economic windfall. The author focuses on the upcoming Tokyo 2020 summer Olympics and World Cup 2022 in Qatar …
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The Host with the Most? The Effects of the Olympic Games on Happiness
Dolan, Paul - 2016
We show that hosting the Olympic Games in 2012 had a positive impact on the life satisfaction and happiness of Londoners during the Games, compared to residents of Paris and Berlin. Notwithstanding issues of causal inference, the magnitude of the effects is equivalent to moving from the bottom...
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The Long-Run Impacts of the World Cup
Depken, Craig A.; Wilson, Dennis P. - 2014
success a nation’s soccer team in the FIFA World Cup Finals and that nation’s real per-capita GDP growth. Using an unbalanced … the World Cup finals, World Cup success, and real per-capita GDP growth. In Europe, North America, and South America, real … per-capita GDP growth declines by approximately one percentage point in the years during which the World Cup Finals occur …
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