Coming to Play or Coming to Win: Participation and Success at the Olympic Games

Johnson, Daniel K. N.; Ali, Ayfer

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“…All of the more recent studies are along the same lines, incorporating population, GDP (or GNP) in levels or per capita terms, host and political regime variables (for a panel analysis of success at the Summer Olympics see Johnson and Ali (2000) and Bernard and Busse (2004)). Further studies use different methodologies or additional variables, such as geographical indicators.…”

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National well-being and international sports events

Kavetsos

Szymanski²

2010

Journal of Economic Psychology

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The widely proclaimed economic benefits of hosting major sporting events have received substantial criticism by academic economists and have been shown to be negligible, at best. The aim of this paper is to formally examine the existence of another potential impact: national wellbeing or the so-called "feelgood" factor. Using data on self-reported life satisfaction (happiness) for twelve European countries we test for the impact of hosting and of national athletic success on happiness. Our data covers three different major events: the Olympic Games, the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA European Championship. We find that the "feelgood" factor associated with hosting football events is large and significant, but that the impact of national athletic success on happiness, while correctly signed, is statistically insignificant. JEL Classification Codes: D60, I31, L83

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Section: Appendix A: Olympic and Football Success Estimation Methodologymentioning

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National well-being and international sports events

Kavetsos

Szymanski²

2010

Journal of Economic Psychology

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“…This observation might help to explain the mixed outcome in the literature concerning population effects (e.g. Ball, 1972;Bernard and Busse, 2004;Levine, 1974;Johnson and Ali, 2000). The second contribution is the interpretation of technical efficiency as a measure for the value of sports in a society.…”

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“…(e.g. Novikov and Maksimenko, 1973;Johnson and Ali, 2000;Moosa and Smith, 2004;Bernard and Busse, 2004). In addition, population size determines the pool from which potential talents can be drawn.…”

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“…Therefore, population size is another important factor explaining Olympic achievement (e.g. Johnson and Ali, 2000).…”

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“…Other factors from the literature can be seen as determinants of total factor productivity. For example, it is well known that socialist and host countries systematically outperform the others (e.g Bernard and Busse, 2004;Ball, 1972;Levine, 1974;Seppänen, 1981;Grimes et al, 1974;Johnson and Ali, 2000), and that hosting the Olympic Games considerably increases the public support for (and therefore the money and effort invested in) sports in the years before the Games. The importance given to sports in a society seems to matter.…”

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Applying stochastic frontier analysis, we estimate the importance of sports in society as technical efficiency of countries in the production of Olympic success since the 1950s. Our measures of success are medal shares and a broader concept including Olympic diplomas. Following Bernard and Busse (2004), population and GDP are used as inputs. While the impact of GDP is always positive, we show that the sign of the population effect depends on wealth and population size of a country.The results show that the spread of importance is very wide over time, across countries, gender, and sports. These differences can be seen as caused by differences in financial support, training methods, organization, or culture. Using the method proposed by Battese and Coelli (1995), we confirm the result well documented in the literature that planned economies and host countries are more successful than others in terms of Olympic success (e.g. Bernard and Busse, 2004). The method allows to shed light on important aspects of recent sport history, such as the consequences of the breakdown of the former Soviet Union.

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Coming to Play or Coming to Win: Participation and Success at the Olympic Games

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