Economic Multipliers and Mega-Event Analysis

By Victor A. Matheson. International Journal of Sport Finance, 2004

119 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Critics of economic impact studies that purport to show that mega-events such as the Olympics bring large benefits to the communities “lucky” enough to host them frequently cite the use of inappropriate multipliers as a primary reason why these impact studies overstate the true economic gains to the hosts of these events. This brief paper shows in a numerical example one way in which mega-events may lead to inflated multipliers and exaggerated claims of economic benefits.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Urban Studies

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Citations in the corpus

• A Theoretical Comparison of the Economic Impact of Large and Small Events (2015, unknown): “Much of the economic impact research to date has focused on mega-event impact such as the Olympic Games or the FIFA World Cup (e.g., Baade & Matheson, 2004; Matheson, 2006a; 2009; Maennig & Zimbalist, 2012; Porter & Fletcher, 2008; Preuss, 2004; 2007; Tien, Lo, & Lin, 2011).”