Attendance and pricing at sporting events: Empirical results from Granger causality tests for the Melbourne Cup

Applied Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 1649-1657

  Narayan, Paresh Kumar ^a   Smyth, Russell ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARKET CONDITIONS; PRICE DYNAMICS; SPORT; TESTING METHOD;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0345099233     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0003684032000133223     Document Type: Article

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