Financing Professional Sports Facilities

Robert Baade () and Victor Matheson
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Robert Baade: Department of Business and Economics, Lake Forest College

No 1102, Working Papers from College of the Holy Cross, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper examines public financing of professional sports facilities with a focus on both early and recent developments in taxpayer subsidization of spectator sports. The paper explores both the magnitude and the sources of public funding for professional sports facilities.

Keywords: Stadiums; arenas; sports; subsidies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J23 L83 O18 R53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2011-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-mic, nep-tur and nep-ure
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Published in in Financing for Local Economic Development, 2nd ed., Zenia Kotval and Sammis White, eds., (New York: M.E. Sharpe Publishers, 2012), pp. 323-342.

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