Evaluating the economic impacts of hosting the Olympic Games: Why are more cities in emerging markets increasingly bidding and winning the right to host?

• Main Author: Kavuma, Eden
• Other Authors: Deborah Kay Elms
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Business::International business::International economic relations
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/65001
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper will evaluate the economic impacts of hosting an Olympics. City and State officials claim that hosting the Olympics can deliver both short and long-term economic impacts for the city and country at large, but economist remain skeptical of the event's large upfront costs and an...