Are We Willing to Pay Enough toBack the Bid'?: Valuing the Intangible Impacts of London's Bid to Host the 2012 Summer Olympic Games

G Atkinson, S Mourato, S Szymanski… - Urban …, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
Using a contingent valuation survey, this paper provides the first empirical test of the
proposition that intangible impacts might justify hosting major sporting events on cost …

The winner's curse: why is the cost of mega sporting events so often underestimated?

W Andreff - International handbook on the economics of mega …, 2012 - elgaronline.com
Grenoble taxpayers were not very happy to pay local taxes until 1992 in order to cover the
financial deficit from the 1968 Winter Games! The 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal …

Willingness to pay for downtown public goods generated by large, sports-anchored development projects: The CVM approach

BK Johnson, JC Whitehead, DS Mason… - City, Culture and Society, 2012 - Elsevier
North American cities have long encouraged redevelopment of their downtown cores to
counteract the flight of residents and business to the suburbs in the postwar period. Building …

The willingness to pay to keep a football club in a city: how important are the methodological issues?

P Castellanos, J García… - Journal of Sports …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

Economic impact of the London 2012 Olympics

A Blake - 2005 - opus.lib.uts.edu.au
On 6 July 2005 the International Olympic Committee awarded the right to stage the 2012
summer Olympic and Paralympic Games to London. The decision to bid for the Games is a …

Local residents' monetary evaluation of sports events

T Andersson, A Rustad, HA Solberg - Managing Leisure, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
This study presents an empirical analysis from the World Championship in Skiing, hosted in
Trondheim, Norway. Surveys focus on local residents' assessment of a major sport event …

Value of public goods from sports stadiums: The CVM approach

BK Johnson, JC Whitehead - Contemporary economic policy, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Many state and local governments have subsidized the construction of arenas and stadium
for the use of professional sports teams. They often justify the subsidies by claiming the …

The intangible benefits of sports teams

JG Owen - Public Finance and Management, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper conducts a contingent valuation survey of professional sports teams in Michigan
and Minnesota. Two findings indicate that the consumption value of teams is quite important …

Information and willingness to pay in a contingent valuation study: the value of S. Erasmo in the Lagoon of Venice

A Alberini, P Rosato, A Longo… - Journal of environmental …, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
This paper reports on a contingent valuation (CV) study eliciting willingness to pay (WTP) for
a public program for the preservation of lagoon, beach and infrastructure in the island of S …

The quest for the cup: assessing the economic impact of the world cup

RA Baade, VA Matheson - Regional studies, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
Baade RA and Matheson VA (2004) The quest for the cup: assessing the economic impact
of the World Cup, Reg. Studies 38, 343–354. Hosting the World Cup, the world's second …