Modelling the Economic Impacts of the Sydney Olympics in Retrospect – Game Over for the Bonanza Story?*

Economic Papers

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 218-232

  Giesecke, James A ^a   Madden, John R ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

D58; economic impacts; ex post analysis; H54; L83; multiregional CGE modelling; Olympic Games; R15; sports economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864554865     PISSN: 08120439     EISSN: 17593441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1759-3441.2011.00109.x     Document Type: Article

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