The importance of the regional development on the location of professional soccer teams. The Portuguese case 1970-1999

Paulo Mourão

No 1/2006, NIPE Working Papers from NIPE - Universidade do Minho

Abstract: This work aims at testing the hypothesis “The economic development level of a region influences the presence of professional soccer teams in the country’s first league, which have their head offices in that region”. Using a rational choice model and working with binary time-series cross-section data, this work focuses on the Portuguese case, from 1970 to 1999. The results corroborate the main importance of three factors, which increase the probability that a municipality has the head office of a team that plays in the first league: the per capita revenue, the level of infrastructures and the demographic dimension.

Keywords: Regional development; Sports; BTSCS; logit models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L83 R11 R33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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