Predicting the economic impact of the 2010 FIFA World Cup on South Africa

International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 383-396

  Bohlmann, Heinrich R ^a   van Heerden, Jan H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

CGE; Computable General Equilibrium; mega events

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957820847     PISSN: 14758962     EISSN: 17402808     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJSMM.2008.017214     Document Type: Article

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47. Scenarios 1, 2 and 3 refer to the increase in capital stock, productivity and tourism, respectively, as a result of hosting the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
48. The real exchange rate of a country is the ratio of foreign prices to domestic prices measured in the same currency, and is defined by the equation R = ePf/P.
49. The sales matrix from the database file in the model clearly depicts the relationship between the various sectors and the destination of their sales.
50. Minor discrepancies may occur due to rounding.