Study of the economic impact resulting from the organization of a major sporting event within a country

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Supervisors

Bodart, Vincent

Faculty

Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales, politiques et de communication

Degree label

Master [60] en sciences économiques, orientation générale

Abstract

This thesis aims at studying the economic impact resulting from the organization of a major sporting event within a country. For many decades, there have been many countries and cities that have applied to organize a mega sporting event. This kind of events can boost the tourism and bring many benefits, but they usually induce a lot of costs… This raises the question of whether these mega sporting events really have a positive economic impact. This work will attempt to answer to this question. Studies of these mega events have already been made, but most of them usually focus on only one mega sporting event. The thesis will therefore focus on three different mega sporting events: the FIFA world cup, the UEFA Euro Championship and the summer Olympic games. I chose to focus on these events as they are the most important ones of these last decades. To this end, an econometric model will capture the impact of organizing those events through a linear regression run for a period from 1980 to today. This will enable us to determine whether hosting a mega sporting event has a significant economic impact or not.