Infrastructure Investments and Mega-Sports Events: Comparing the Experience of Developing and Industrialized Countries

Robert Baumann () and Victor Matheson

No 1305, Working Papers from College of the Holy Cross, Department of Economics

Abstract: Countries vigorously compete for sports mega-events in hopes of generating an economic impact during the event but also long-term growth induced by the hallmark event. It is well understood that the economic legacy depends on the infrastructure that not only facilitates the games but also has far broader implications for sustainable economic activity in the host city’s economy. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the extent to which developing and developed countries adopt different strategies as it related to the composition of infrastructure enhancements that have implications for the generation of an economy legacy from the mega-sports event.

Keywords: sports; stadiums; development; impact analysis; Olympics; World Cup; tourism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L83 O18 R53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2013-08
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Published in Mega-sporting events and Development of Countries, Maxim Kotlyarov, ed., (Yekaterinburg, Russia: Urals State University of Economics, 2015), 16-42.

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