The Economic Impact of the World Cup

By Stefan Szymanski. 2002

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• The impact of mega-sport events on tourist arrivals (2011, background): “The benefits from hosting the FIFA World Cup are similarly doubtful (Szymanski 2002; Baade and Matheson 2004; Lee and Taylor 2005; Allmers and Maennig 2009).”
• Economic impacts of the FIFA Soccer World Cups in France 1998, Germany 2006, and outlook for South Africa 2010 (2009, background): “In contrast, France spent less than US$500 million by restricting its construction work mainly to the reconstruction of existing stadiums, and built only one new stadium (Stade de France) [Szymanski 2002].”