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Bidding for the Olympics: Fools Gold?

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Robert Baade () (Department of Economics and Business, Lake Forest College)
Victor Matheson () (Department of Economics, College of the Holy Cross)

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Date of creation: Nov 2000
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Publication status: Published in Transatlantic Sport: The Comparative Economics of North American and European Sports, Carlos Pestana Barros, Muradali Ibrahimo, and Stefan Szymanski, eds. (Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2002).
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