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Infrastructure expansion, tourism, and electoral outcomes
Mehic, Adrian - 2024 - This version: June 14, 2024
This paper examines the electoral impact of increased foreign tourism, using data from Croatia. Exploiting exogenous … variation in travel times to coastal municipalities from improved road infrastructure, I show that foreign tourism reduces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014551956
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On the economic impact of international sport events : microevidence from survey data at the EURO 2008
Lamla, Michael; Straub, Martin; Girsberger Seelaus, … - 2012
Using firm-level data for up to 707 Swiss hotels and restaurants we evaluate the economic impact of the EURO 2008 soccer championship. Although aggregated macro data reveal no economic impact, we report an overall negative effect based on the surveyed companies. Notably the reported effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629636
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Regional income and employment effects of the 1972 Munich Olympic Summer Games
Jasmand, Stephanie (contributor);  … - 2007
Olympic Games may have impacts on income and employment in the host city, but no ex post study has been carried out for European Olympic host cities to date. The present study closes this gap using the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. The data period examined in this study allows for analysis of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003660104
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403579
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Die Markenstrategie des Deutschen Lotto-Toto-Blocks unter dem Einfluss des Bundesverfassungsgerichts
Albers, Norman (contributor) - 2008
Sport betting is in Germany, like other public lotteries, strictly regulated as a state monopoly. This state monopoly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003784013
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Sports business and the theory of multisided markets
Budzinski, Oliver; Satzer, Janina - 2008
Despite still being younger than a decade, the theory of multisided market has offered numerous valuable insights for the analysis of non-ordinary industries in which a supplier serves two distinct customer groups that are indirectly interrelated by externalities. Examples include payment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003865724
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Sports business and the theory of multisided markets
Budzinski, Oliver; Satzer, Janina - 2009
Despite still being younger than a decade, the theory of multisided market has offered numerous valuable insights for the analysis of industries in which a supplier serves two distinct customer groups that are indirectly interrelated by externalities. Examples include payment systems, matching...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003821599
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Wage and employment effects of the Olympic Games in Atlanta 1996 reconsidered
Feddersen, Arne; Maennig, Wolfgang - 2009
We estimate the economic effects of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. Our difference in difference model checks for serial correlation and allows for a simultaneous test of level and trend effects, but otherwise follows HOTCHKISS, MOORE, & ZOBAY (2003) in this journal. We were not able to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003883824
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Sports heroes and mass sports participation : the (double) paradox of the "German tennis boom"
Feddersen, Arne; Jacobsen, Sven; Maennig, Wolfgang - 2009
participation in that sport. This study is the first to analyse the impact of sports heroes on the membership figures of the … ascendency of the sport stars. With the first paradox, their retirement should then have a positive effect. In this sense, our … regarded as a second paradox. -- Tennis ; Sport Association Memberships ; Boris Becker Effect ; Mass Sport Participation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003948737
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The institutional framework for doing sports business: principles of EU competition policy in sports markets
Budzinski, Oliver - 2012
The competition rules and policy framework of the European Union represents an important institutional restriction for doing sports business. Driven by the courts, the 2007 overhaul of the approach and methodology has increased the scope of competition policy towards sports associations and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009505624