nep-spo 2015-08-13 papers

on Sports and Economics

Issue of 2015‒08‒13
two papers chosen by
João Carlos Correia Leitão
Universidade da Beira Interior

Many Happy Returns? The Pro-Bowl, Mega-events, and Tourism in Hawaii By Robert Baumann; Victor Matheson
Scheduling of sport leage systems with inter-leage constraints By Schönberger, Jörn

Many Happy Returns? The Pro-Bowl, Mega-events, and Tourism in Hawaii

By:	Robert Baumann (Department of Economics, College of the Holy Cross); Victor Matheson (Department of Economics, College of the Holy Cross)
Abstract:	We use daily airplane arrival data from 2004 to 2015 from Hawaii’s Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to determine the net change in arrivals around a variety of sporting events. We find only one event generates a positive and significant net impact on arrivals: the Honolulu Marathon, which generates roughly 3,900 additional arrivals. No other sporting events result in a measurable increase in tourist arrivals including, notably, the NFL’s Pro Bowl, which receives a large subsidy from the state’s tourism authority.
Keywords:	sports, stadiums, franchises, impact analysis, mega-event, tourism
JEL:	O18 R53
Date:	2015–08
URL:	http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:spe:wpaper:1501&r=spo

Scheduling of sport leage systems with inter-leage constraints

By:	Schönberger, Jörn
Abstract:	We investigate the simultaneous schedule determination of several leagues in a championship. Beside limited availability of venues, the substitution of players among teams of a club requires the consideration of mutual match slot exclusions associated with teams playing in different leagues during schedule construction. We propose a mathematical optimization model for this complicated decision task and report results from initial computational experiments.
Date:	2015
URL:	http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:tudiwv:22015&r=spo

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