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The IOC’s midas touch: Summer Olympics and city growth

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  • Nitsch, Volker
  • Wendland, Nicolai

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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 analyse the population size 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 do not experience a measurable increase in population size relative to cities in the control group. On the contrary, to the extent that any effect of hosting the Games is identifiable, our results indicate that being awarded the Summer Olympics has a negative impact on cities.

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  • Nitsch, Volker & Wendland, Nicolai, 2017. "The IOC’s midas touch: Summer Olympics and city growth," Publications of Darmstadt Technical University, Institute for Business Studies (BWL) 77870, Darmstadt Technical University, Department of Business Administration, Economics and Law, Institute for Business Studies (BWL).
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    DOI: 10.1177/0042098015623719
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    • R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)
    • N90 - Economic History - - Regional and Urban History - - - General, International, or Comparative
    • F53 - International Economics - - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy - - - International Agreements and Observance; International Organizations

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