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Managing sports experiences in the context of tourism

Peric, Marko - In: UTMS Journal of Economics 6 (2015) 1, pp. 85-97

Participation in sports activities combined with unique sports resources can provide people with extraordinary experiences. It is especially true for tourism where sports activities are an important content of stay. The aim of this paper is to analyse how sports experiences could be planned and...

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?La Grande Boucle?: Determinants of Success at the Tour de France

Torgler, Benno - 2005

Cycling has not been analyzed intensively in the economics of sports literature. This paper reports empirical evidence of individuals' performances in the 2004 "Tour de France". We investigate different performances such as total ranking, mountain ranking, time trial rankings as dependent...

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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 …

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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...

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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

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...

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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 …

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Do sporty people have access to higher job quality?

Cabane, Charlotte - 2010

Very little attention has been paid to the impact of sports participation on the labour market in the European academic literature while it has received significant recognition in the United States. We consider sports practice as a way to improve or signal non-cognitive skills endowment. And it...

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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...

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Sabotage in tournaments : evidence from a natural experiment

Balafoutas, Loukas; Lindner, Florian; Sutter, Matthias - 2012

Many tournaments are plagued by sabotage among competitors. Typically, sabotage is welfare-reducing, but from an individual's perspective an attractive alternative to exerting positive effort. Yet, given its illegal and often immoral nature, sabotage is typically hidden, making it difficult to...

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