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The Economic Determinants of the Olympic Performance in Communist and Post-Communist Countries

In: Comparative Economic Studies in Europe

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  • Wladimir Andreff

    (Pantheon-Sorbonne University)

Abstract

The chapter first reminds the statist model of sport, its overshooting Olympic performance, and reforms before its final collapse. Moving towards a market-compatible sport system during the transformational economic crisis was not without hindrances ending up into a hybrid sports industry. All these changes affected Olympic performance downwards. Econometric modelling explains all nations’ medal totals at Summer Olympic Games by GDP per capita, population, a host country effect, regional sport specialisation, and a political regime variable taking on board communist and post-communist specificity. A similar model is adapted to Winter Games by adding two variables, snow coverage and endowment in winter sports resorts. Both models provide a statistically significant explanation of how medal totals have evolved in post-communist nations. Used for forecasting, the Winter Olympics model enables checking the impact of doping on Olympic performance with a natural experiment at the 2014 Sochi Games.

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  • Wladimir Andreff, 2021. "The Economic Determinants of the Olympic Performance in Communist and Post-Communist Countries," Studies in Economic Transition, in: Wladimir Andreff (ed.), Comparative Economic Studies in Europe, edition 1, pages 377-412, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:stuchp:978-3-030-48295-4_18
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-48295-4_18
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    1. Jaime Gómez-Rodríguez & Jordi Seguí-Urbaneja & Mário Coelho Teixeira & David Cabello-Manrique, 2024. "How Countries Compete for Success in Elite Sport: A Systematic Review," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 13(1), pages 1-16, January.

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