The Olympic Effect

Economic Journal

Volumn 121, Issue 553, 2011, Pages 652-677

  Rose, Andrew K ^a   Spiegel, Mark M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EXPORT; OLYMPIC GAMES;

EID: 79957955154     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2010.02407.x     Document Type: Article

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