Arbeitspapier

The IOC's Midas Touch: Summer Olympics and City Growth

Hosting a mega-event is a costly activity of short duration. Still, cities frequently compete to become host of all types of events. This paper examines the effect of staging the largest and most important sporting event in the world, the Summer Olympic Games, on the host city. Applying a difference-in-differences methodology, we analyze the rates of population growth of Olympic cities, candidate cities and other large cities in host and candidate countries over the period from 1860 to 2010. We find that, following the Games, host cities experience a measurable decline in population growth relative to cities in the control group. Our results indicate that being awarded the Summer Olympics has, on average, a negative impact on cities.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 4378

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
International Agreements and Observance; International Organizations
Regional and Urban History: General
Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
Thema
mega-events
impact
host city
city size

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Nitsch, Volker
Wendland, Nicolai
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2013

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Nitsch, Volker
  • Wendland, Nicolai
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2013

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