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An important issue in many antitrust lawsuits involving professional sports leagues and their member teams is the … extent to which franchises within the same, and across different, professional sports leagues compete with one another for … fans and advertisers. Complicating the issue is the fact that some sports franchises also cooperate with other franchises …
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This study adds to the debate about the relationship between the Olympic Games and socio-economic factors. It is the first empirical work testing if economic, political, and social determinants (as well as the prospects of success) help to forecast which countries will submit an Olympic bid to...
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The study sought to assess the impact of sports betting on the investment behaviour of Ghanaians, focusing on sports … individuals perceive the risk of sports lotteries as opposed to investment, to determine if sports lottery was viewed as an … alternative to investments and savings, and to understand how participation in sports lotteries affects individuals' ability to …
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This paper contributes to the analysis of large sporting events using highly disaggregated data. We use the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, which are also outstanding as one of the very few large sporting events where ex post academic analysis found significant positive effects. This paper...
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Using the data of the 1996 Olympic Games, this paper analyzes the economic impact of a mega-sporting event. Earlier studies are extended in several ways. First, monthly rather than quarterly data are employed. Second, the impact is analyzed for 16 different sectors. Third, we use a nonparametric...
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sports/Olympic factors are important for winning the host city election. IOC members favour cities if more than 2/3 of the …
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method, we outline several good practices of self-financing sports projects in developed markets in for each type of …
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On May 14, 2018, the United States Supreme Court struck down the federal prohibition on sports gambling. The sweeping … opinion, authored by Justice Alito, ended more than a quarter-century old policy that kept states from offering sports … gambling and therefore, sports betting was confined almost entirely to illegal underground markets. Indeed, the sports betting …
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Service sports include two-player contests such as volleyball, badminton, and squash. We analyze four rules, including …
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The United States employs an ad hoc, unconventional method of regulating sports betting, banning it almost everywhere … while granting a monopoly to firms in a single state, Nevada. This approach encourages illegal sports betting markets …. I review the current state of sports betting regulation in the U.S. and assess its economic viability in advance of the …
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