Does a nation's contingent value of hosting a mega event depend on past experience with
implied benefits? Applying data from ex‐ante and ex‐post queries, we use the FIFA World …

The current study aims to understand if sport organizations can utilize environmental
sustainability (ES) efforts to increase revenue in addition to saving money. To do this, fans of …

The contingent valuation method (CVM) is used to estimate the willingness to pay (WTP) to
keep a football club in a city in Spain (RC Deportivo de A Coruña). The authors pay attention …

Local governments often justify subsidizing sports stadiums as economic development
projects that have positive returns on investment. If this is true, economic and quality-of-life …

In Germany, some sports clubs increasingly encounter financial problems due to decreasing
public subsidies. A way to compensate for the decrease is to increase membership fees …

Often sports leagues, organising committees, and team owners justify the use of public funds
to build sports stadiums by the perceived economic impacts and civic pride generated by the …

We use daily airplane arrival data from Hawaii's Department of Business, Economic
Development, and Tourism to determine the net change in tourism for a variety of sporting …

The past 20 years have witnessed a massive transformation of professional sports
infrastructure in North America and the rest of the world. In the United States and Canada …

Abstract Using the Washington Nationals case, which moved from Montreal, Canada, to
Washington, DC in 2005, as a natural experiment, I examine the impact of MLB games on …

This article investigates the effects of National Football League (NFL) games on crime.
Using a panel data set that includes daily crime incidences in eight large cities with NFL …