The tradition of tossing a coin to decide who bats first in a cricket match introduces a randomly-assigned advantage to one team that is unique in sporting contests. In this paper we develop previous work on this issue by examining the impact of the toss on outcomes of day-night one day international games. We estimate conditional logit models of outcomes using data from every day-night interna...

This paper analyses from an empirical point of view the relationship between the provision of high-speed rail services (HSR) and the evolution of tourism at the local level in Spain. We have built a database of 124 municipalities during the 2005-2012 period to study the effects of the introduction of new HSR corridors on the number of visitors and their total and average stay at several end-lin...

Theories of rational addiction posit that certain habit-forming goods—characterized by an increasing marginal utility of consumption—generate predictable dynamic patterns of consumer behavior. It has been suggested that attendance at sporting events represents an example of such a good, as evidenced by the pricing strategies of commercial sports interests. In this essay, we provide new evidence...

Heterogeneous Sports Participation and Labour Market Outcomes in England Based on a unique composite dataset measuring heterogeneous sports participation, labour market outcomes and local facilities provision, this paper examines for the first time the association between different types of sports participation on employment and earnings in England. Clear associations between labour market outc...

Віртуалізація туристичної та культурної галузей набирає швидких обертів розвитку не тільки в усьому світі, а й Україні. Це досить ефективний прогресивний інструмент для покращення репутаційного менеджменту національної дестинації. Під час війни цифровізація туризму, як інструменту, досягла піку технології інтегровані у галузь, безумовно впливає на неї. сфер – це сучасний тренд, необхідність, то...

tourism industry has been the fastest and the most income-generating industry in the first decade of the third millennium. it has been for many countries including some of oic member countries a source of foreign exchange and contributed into their development. in this paper, we try to test empirically whether tourism expansion has had any significant effect on economic growth of oic member cou...

The advent of Web 2.0 has encouraged restaurant customers to post online reviews, and oftentimes, not in favor the company. When a service failure occurs, customer may voice their complaints publicly online. company, on other hand, opportunity respond these use it as part recovery strategy. While some companies are responding negative only few have knowledge how do effectively. Built perceived ...

This paper considers racial discrimination in the market for Major League Baseball rookie cards. Merging data from four sources to form a panel containing 6,026 cards released between 1986 and 1993, we explore the determinants of card values in certain and uncertain environments. Our results indicate black players carry a 15 percent premium at initial release, that race effects are not present ...

This paper provides an economic explanation of the frequent rule changes in the Formula One (F1) motor racing series. In a two-stage model, the FIA (as the organizer of the F1) rst decides whether to change the rules or not, and then the racing teams compete in a contest. It turns out that a rule change reduces the teams' performances, but also improves competitive balance between the teams. Th...