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on Sports and Economics |
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Issue of 2016‒11‒13
three papers chosen by João Carlos Correia Leitão Universidade da Beira Interior |
| By: | Ömer Bakan (Selcuk University Faculty of Communication); Süleyman Sırrı Yılmaz (Selcuk University Faculty of Communication) |
| Abstract: | The olympics are recognized worldwide as one of the largest sports events. The Olympic Games may have great amount of media coverage. The daily newspapers in Turkey published a lot of news about the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. In this study the non-sports related topics of Hürriyet about the 2016 Rio Olympic Games have been analyzed by using the web site of Hürriyet. The daily newspaper Hürriyet was selected because of its high circulation in Turkey in August 2016. Content analysis method was used in the study. It was determined that sometimes 2016 Rio Olympic Games took place on the agenda with non-sport related topics. |
| Keywords: | Olympics, Olympic Games, Rio 2016 Olympics, news, |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:sek:ibmpro:4306909&r=spo |
| By: | Pfeifer, Gregor; Wahl, Fabian; Marczak, Martyna |
| Abstract: | This paper evaluates the economic impact of the $14 billion preparatory investments for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. We use satellite data on night light luminosity at municipality and electoral district level as a proxy for economic development, applying synthetic control methods for estimation. For the average World Cup municipality, we find significantly positive, short-run effects before the tournament, corresponding to a reduction of unemployment by 1.3 percentage points. At the electoral district level, we reveal distinct effect heterogeneity, where especially investments in transport infrastructure are shown to have long-lasting, positive effects, particularly in more rural areas. |
| Keywords: | Football World Cup,Public Infrastructure,Development,Night Lights Data,Synthetic Control Methods,Mega Sports Events,South Africa |
| JEL: | H54 O18 R11 R42 Z28 |
| Date: | 2016 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:hohdps:162016&r=spo |
| By: | Sylvain Béal (Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, CRESE); Sylvain Ferrières (Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, CRESE); Eric Rémila (Université de Saint-Etienne, Gate); Phillippe Solal (Université de Saint-Etienne, Gate) |
| Abstract: | A variant of the h-index introduced in Garcia-Perez (2009), called the iterated h-index, is studied to evaluate the productivity of scholars. It consists of successive applications of the h-index so as to obtain a vector of h-indices. In particular, the iterated h-index fixes a drawback of the h-index since it allows for (lexicographic) comparisons of scholars with the same h-index. Two types or results are presented. Firstly, we provide an axiomatic characterization of the iterated h-index, which rests on a new axiom of consistency and extensions of axioms in the literature to a richer framework. Secondly, we apply the h-index and iterated h-index to offer alternative sport rankings in tennis, football and basketball. These applications clearly demonstrate that the iterated h-index is much more appropriate than the classical h-index. |
| Keywords: | h-index, iterated h-index, axioms, sports ranking |
| JEL: | D70 Z20 |
| Date: | 2016–10 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:crb:wpaper:2016-11&r=spo |