The widely proclaimed economic benefits of hosting major sporting events have received
substantial criticism by academic economists and have been shown to be negligible, at best …

Sports Economics is the ideal introduction for all sport management and sport policy
students and those for whom economics is a relatively new area of study. The book will also …

For the first time, the determinants of a country's success at the Paralympic Games are
studied, using data from four editions, starting in 1996. By means of a tobit panel, the authors …

Purpose–The purpose of this study is to develop insight into the socio‐economic
determinants of African sports performance. Previous studies have argued that a country's …

This paper empirically examines the determinants of Summer Olympic success during the
period 1996-2016. By modifying the panel Tobit estimator using the Mundlak transform, the …

The present study revisited the problem of estimating Olympic success by critical demo-
economic indicators. The sample consisted of the 75 winner countries at the Athens 2004 …

This paper examines A sian exceptionalism at the O lympics. N ortheast A sian countries
conform to the statistical norm, whereas the rest of A sia lags, but this result obscures …

The sports industryLs global gain is worth drawing attention to in the face of economics.
Scholars argued that a countryLs success in sports is directly related to its economic …

A number of studies have used data envelopment analysis (DEA) to evaluate the
performance of the countries in Olympic Games. While the fact that numbers of three kinds of …

A number of authors have identified the determinants of international sporting performance
differentials in men's sporting events. This study compares the determinants of men's …