Mega-Events: The effect of the world’s biggest sporting events on local, regional, and national economies

Victor Matheson

No 622, Working Papers from International Association of Sports Economists, North American Association of Sports Economists

Abstract: This paper provides an overview of the economics of sports mega-events as well as a review of the existing literature in the field. The paper describes why boosters’ ex ante estimates of the economic impact of large sporting events tend to exaggerate the net economic benefits of these events and surveys the results of a large number of ex post studies of exploring the true impact of mega-events.

Keywords: sports; impact analysis; mega-events (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2006-10
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