Modelling the economic impact of sports events: The case of the Beijing Olympics

Economic Modelling

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 235-244

  Li, ShiNa ^a   Blake, Adam ^b   Thomas, Rhodri ^a  

^a LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computable general equilibrium modelling; Economic impacts; Imperfect competition; The Beijing Olympics; Tourism impacts

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867614909     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2012.09.013     Document Type: Article

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