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From the inbox: The editors of Urban Studies have now had a chance to read the revised version of your article entitled "Public support for hosting the Olympic Summer Games in Germany: The CVM approach" and I am happy to say that we would like to publish it in Urban Studies. Yay! Here is a…
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Last year, the NFL (Nation Football League — American Football for those not in America) televised a national game between the New York Jets and the Buffalo Bills. In their never ending attempt to find new ways to get fans to buy 'alternate' jerseys, the NFL has Nike design special 'Color Rush' uniforms for the…
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Sigh: With Kentucky football off to a spirit-crushing 0-2 start, the $12 million contract buyout that it would take to remove Mark Stoops as UK head coach after this season has garnered national focus. Were UK to change its coaching staff following the 2016 season, it could cost far more than $12 million, however. ……
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Chris Dillow: When Rio de Janeiro won its bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics back in 2009, the Brazilian government estimated that costs directly related to hosting the games would run just shy of $3 billion. But by the time the Vanderlei de Lima lit the Olympic torch at last week’s opening ceremonies, the…
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I'm fielding a post-ride survey for the Blue Ridge Brutal and this was in the comments section: No concerns, but I was your student at ECU in the 90's for Environmental Econ and I played intramural sports for the Econ Society. If you ride, hope to see you on the road. Cheers Wow: Small world.…
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And the voters will get to have their say (again): The Diamondbacks have been playing in their current ballpark since 1998. Their stadium cost $364 million to build, and Maricopa County picked up $238 million of the tab. Eighteen years later, it is need of some repairs, and the fight over who is going to…
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History tells us that the public will pay for the stadium: Las Vegas ABC station KTNV polled Clark County residents about whether or not they would want to pay $500 million in order to help build the Raiders an NFL stadium. Of the 750 people polled, 55 percent said they opposed spending half a billion…
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… that I'm a very famous sports economist*: This study shows that fans and people living in the region of 28 Football Bundesliga teams from all three divisions are willing to support their team financially. Survey respondents were asked for their willingness-to-pay to avoid a negative outcome (e.g., relegation) and to achieve a positive outcome…
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The scientific debates between human-induced climate change and sports-induced Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) are eerily similar: …a consensus statement issued by two dozen neuroscientists, [noted] that CTE has "only been found in individuals who were exposed to brain trauma, typically multiple episodes." …until researchers are able to study football players over time, including issues such…
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Neil deMause at Field of Schemes: SI.com asked a bunch of economists whether St. Louis and San Diego should have coughed up more money to keep the Rams and (potentially) Chargers from moving to Los Angeles, and if you read this site with any regularity, you can probably guess what they said: Brad Humphreys, sports economist…
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