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Professional Sporting Events and Firm-Level Economic Activity

Depken, Craig A. - 2016

This paper investigates the impact of professional sporting events on the daily revenue of a particular restaurant in Charlotte, NC. The daily data allow us to test for the impact of professional basketball and professional football games on daily revenues. For this particular firm, professional...

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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...

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Competitive Balance in Olympic Boxing : 1904-2012

Chaplin, David; Mendoza, Sergio - 2012

Beginning with the seminal work in the field now known as sports economics (Rottenberg, 1956), concern over competitive … balance has been a recurring theme. While the vast majority of the focus has been on popular professional team sports, a few … studies have analyzed competitive balance in the individual sports of professional tennis (del Corral, 2009) and NASCAR (von …

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Asian Participation and Performance at the Olympic Games

Noland, Marcus; Stahler, Kevin - 2015

This paper examines Asian exceptionalism at the Olympics. Northeast Asian countries conform to the statistical norm while the rest of Asia lags, but this result obscures underlying distinctions. Asian women do better than men. Non-Northeast Asia’s relative underperformance is due to the men....

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What Goes into a Medal : Women's Inclusion and Success at the Olympic Games

Noland, Marcus; Stahler, Kevin - 2014

This paper examines determinants of women's participation and performance in the Olympics. Female inclusion and success are not merely functions of size, wealth, and host advantage, but a more complex process involving the socioeconomic status of women and, more weakly, broad societal attitudes...

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Impact of the 1996 Summer Olympic Games on Unemployment in Georgia

Willner, Jonathan; Aravantinos, Elias - 2005

sport event, but a social event with several economic and financial extensions. At issue is whether the Olympic Games …

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Who Wins the Olympic Games : Economic Development and Medal Totals

Bernard, Andrew B.; Busse, Meghan R. - 2001

This paper examines determinants of Olympic success at the country level. Does the U.S. win its fair share of Olympic medals? Why does China win 6% of the medals even though it has 1/5 of the world's population? We consider the role of population and economic development in determining medal...

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Stakeholder demands and corporate social responsibility : evidence from the Olympic Games

Do, Trung K.; Huang, Henry Hongren; Shan, Liwei; Tsang, … - In: China journal of accounting research : CJAR 16 (2023) 3, pp. 1-24

We propose that stakeholder demand can explain firms’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities and empirically test our proposition using 2002-2016 panel data from multiple countries. We select the Olympic Games as our experimental context and use a difference-in-differences design. We...

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Globalisation of sports

Dilger, Alexander - 2023

Globalisation affects not only politics and the economy, but also sport, which has become significantly more … enter and win international competitions, although richer nations retain advantages. All in all, globalisation of sports is …Die Globalisierung betrifft nicht nur Politik und Wirtschaft, sondern auch den Sport, der viel internationaler …

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Does Temporary Geographical Proximity Predict Learning? Knowledge Dynamics in the Olympic Games

Müller, Martin; Stewart, Allison - 2014

Temporary geographical proximity in the form of face-to-face contact is commonly thought to enhance learning. In a sample of individuals (n= 294) involved in knowledge transfer in the Olympic Games, temporary geographical proximity emerges as a rather weak predictor of learning, although its...

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