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Novelty Effects of New Facilities on Attendance at Professional Sporting Events

Coates, Dennis; Humphreys, Brad R. - Economics Department, University of Maryland-Baltimore … - 2003

We investigate the possibility that new facilities affect attendance - the "novelty effect" - in professional baseball, basketball, and football from 1969-2001 by estimating the parameters of a reduced form attendance model. Our results indicate a strong, persistent novelty effect in baseball...

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Competitive balance e audience televisva: una analisi empirica dalla Serie A italiana

Domizio, Marco Di - In: Rivista di Diritto ed Economia dello Sport 6 (2010) 1, pp. 27-57

Introduzione – 1. Sport & televisione: la letteratura economica - 2. Il calcio e la televisione in Italia: una breve sintesi storica - 3. L’audience televisiva: una analisi empirica - 4. I risultati della stima - 5. Conclusioni

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The Group Size and Loyalty of Football Fans: A Two-Stage Estimation Procedure to Compare Customer Potential Across Teams

Brandes, Leif; Franck, Egon; Theiler, Philipp - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2010

This paper presents estimation results on the size and loyalty of sport teamsÕ sup- porter groups in professional German football. Based on a novel two-stage estimation procedure, we find clear evidence for heterogeneity across teams. In a first stage, a random utility model for a...

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Entertainment Services: a Growing Consumer Market.

Earl, L. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1999

Canada's consumer market for entertainment services grew almost 50% in real terms from 1986 to 1996. Canadians are sepnding more on renting cablevision, video games videotapes and satellite services, and they still attend live sports events, movies and theatre. As a result, spending on...

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Wer und was bestimmen die Zuschauerzahlen in der Fußballbundesliga?

Rottmann, Horst; Seitz, Franz - In: Schmollers Jahrbuch : Journal of Applied Social Science … 128 (2008) 2, pp. 291-306

We analyze the determinants of match attendance in the German premier football league ("Fußballbundesliga") in the seasons 2001/02 to 2004/05, i.e. for 1,224 matches. For that purpose, we specify an econometric model which takes the capacity constraint of each stadium and heteroskedasticity...

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Do Casinos Export Bankruptcy?

Nichols, Mark W.; Garrett, Thomas A. - Economics Department, University of Nevada-Reno; … - 2006

This paper measures the extent to which destination resort casinos export bankruptcy back to visitors’ home states. Previous literature has alluded to this possibility, but to date studies have only examined the influence of local casinos on local bankruptcy. Using various survey data, we...

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Effects of Tourism Upon the Economy of Small and Medium-Sized European Cities. Cultural Tourists and “The Others”

Bellini, Elena; Corpo, Barbara Del; Gasparino, Ugo; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

major steps: firstly, interviews to tourists in each case study city, in order to estimate the scale and variability of the … spending patterns of different profiles of visitors (e.g., culture-driven vs. leisure tourists); secondly, application of the … the effects of tourist expenditure on sales, income and employment for the several impacted economic sectors. Tourists …

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The illusion of control, the structures of prizes and the demand for football pools in Spain

Villar, Jaume Garcia; Rodríguez, Plácido - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2005

Using data for all the fixtures for the seasons from 1972-73 to 2002-03, we estimate a dynamic model of demand for football pools in Spain paying attention to whether their main economic explanatory variable is the effective price of a ticket or the jackpot. Additionally, we evaluate the...

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Holiday Destinations: Understanding the Travel Choices of Irish

Lyons, Seán; Mayor, Karen; Tol, Richard S.J. - Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) - 2007

This paper uses a McFadden choice model to measure the importance of destination, household and seasonal characteristics on the tourism destination choices of Irish households. The analysis is based on quarterly survey data of Irish households? travel destinations between 2000 and 2006. In...

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Gamblers' Rationality in Parimutuel Soccer Betting

Hauser, Ursula; Koenig, Ulrich; Krylova, Elizaveta - Department of Economics and Finance Research and … - 2000

A model for strategic behaviour in parimutuel gambles with unequal winning-probabilities is developed and applied to gambles based on soccer results. Assuming that the bookmakers' quotas reflect the true probability of each possible result of a soccer game, we are able to derive a formula for...

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