Victor A. Matheson

The quest for the cup: assessing the economic impact of the World Cup.

Baade R. A. and Matheson V. A. (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 largest sporting event, is a potentially expensive affair. The co-hosts of the 2002 games, Japan and South Korea, spent a combined US

Home Run or Wild Pitch?: Assessing the Economic Impact of Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game

4 billion building new facilities or refurbishing old facilities in preparation for the event. An ex post analysis of the 1994 World Cup held in the US suggests that the economic impact of the event cannot justify this magnitude of expenditures and that host cities experienced cumulative losses of

Padding Required: Assessing the Economic Impact of the Super Bowl

5·5 to

Bowling in Hawaii: Examining the Effectiveness of Sports-Based Tourism Strategies

9·3 billion as opposed to ex ante estimates of a

Assessing the Economic Impact of College Football Games on Local Economies

4 billion gain touted by event boosters. Potential hosts should consider with care whether the award of the World Cup is an honour or a burden.

Anomalies in Tournament Design: The Madness of March Madness

Major League Baseball has rewarded cities that build new baseball stadiums with the chance to host the All-Star Game. Although the league asserts a significant boost to metropolitan economies due to the game, are these economic impact estimates published by the league credible? In two separate economic impact models, the authors find that All-Star Games since 1973 are actually associated with worse than expected economic performance in host cities.

Examining the Halo Effect in Lotto Games

Abstract Civic boosters generally have estimated the Super Bowl to have an impact of

The effects of labour strikes on consumer demand in professional sports: revisited

300 to

International women's football and gender inequality

400 million on a host citys economy. The National Football League has used the promise of an economic windfall to convince skeptical cities that investments in new stadiums for their teams in exchange for the right to host the event makes economic sense. Evidence from host cities from 1970–2001 indicates the Super Bowl contributes approximately one-quarter of what the boosters have promised and that the game could not have contributed by any reasonable standard of statistical significance, more than

Contrary Evidence on the Economic Effect of the Super Bowl on the Victorious City

300 million to host economies.