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Willingness to Pay and Accept for Hosting Olympic Games in Germany

Bakkenbüll, Linn‐Brit; Dilger, Alexander - 2021

This empirical study investigates whether and how much individuals are willing to pay for hosting Olympic Games in Germany. Moreover, it is examined for the first time what individuals are willing to accept to host Olympic Games in their own country if they do not like that. Furthermore, this...

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When Going in Circles is Going Backwards : Outcome Uncertainty and Fan Interest in Nascar

Berkowitz, Jason P. - 2010

Using data from the 2007, 2008, and 2009 NASCAR seasons, this paper shows that the uncertainty of outcome hypothesis pertains to both race attendance and television audience, with the former only responding to race-level uncertainty and the latter responding to both race-level and season-level...

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Bidding for Sport Mega-Events

Wilson, John K. - 2010

Sport mega-events such as the Olympic Games and FIFA World Cup, or on a smaller scale the Commonwealth Games or regional events, attract competing bids from nations or cities. These bids are mostly made at tax-payers' expense and spending is often large and non-transparent. Our paper addresses...

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Regional Income and Employment Effects of the 1972 Munich Summer Olympic Games

Jasmand, Stephanie - 2010

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...

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The value of sporting success to Germans : comparing the 2012 UEFA Championships with the 2012 Olympics

Wicker, Pamela; Kiefer, Stephanie; Dilger, Alexander - 2013

Championships in football and the London Olympic Games. Using the contingent valuation method (CVM), this study is the first to … winning the European title in football (€47.31) than for Germany being ranked first in the Olympic medal table (€37 ….06). Aggregated WTP amounts to €3.3 billion (football) respectively €2.6 billion (Olympics). We can also determine significant drivers …

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The economic impact of participant sports events : a case study for the Winter World Masters Games 2020 in Tyrol, Austria

Lintumäki, Petri; Winner, Hannes; Scheiber, Sabrina; … - In: Economies : open access journal 8 (2020) 4/94, pp. 1-23

The Winter World Masters Games (WWMGs) are a large sports event for 30+-year-old athletes. As there are neither competitive qualification requirements for participants, nor entrance fees for spectators, the event can be considered as a participatory sports tourism event rather than a spectator...

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Does sponsoring charity sport events improve customer behavioral intention?

Lee, Cheng-jong; Sced, Philip M. M.; Chen, Mei-hsiu - In: International journal of management, economics and … 6 (2017) 2, pp. 107-120

The purpose of the study was to investigate and analyze the relationships among four research variables: participation motivation, event attachment, sponsor's brand image and participants' behavioral intention. This study used on-site convenience sampling. Survey questionnaires were administered...

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Quantifying the intangible impact of the olympics using subjective well-being data

Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian; … - 2019

Hosting the Olympic Games costs billions of taxpayer dollars. Following a quasi- experimental setting, this paper assesses the intangible impact of the London 2012 Olympics, using a novel panel of 26,000 residents in London, Paris, and Berlin during the summers of 2011, 2012, and 2013. We show...

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The economic effects of the mega sport events on tourism in the BRICS countries case

Pop, Iuliana; Kanovici, Adrian; Ghic, Graţiela; … - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 18 (2016), pp. 960-975

At the beginning of the 21st century, events tourism witnessed an impressive development in a series of countries due to the increase of the spare time and of the people’s income, to the cheaper and more diversified world transport, especially the air transport and due to the emergence of new...

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Willingness to pay and accept for hosting Olympic Games in Germany

Bakkenbüll, Linn-Brit; Dilger, Alexander - 2016

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