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Boxing Could Face Future Olympics Knockout Blow
The Olympic Games have long been regarded as the highest standard in the sport of amateur boxing, with fighters from all over the world battling through years of hard work ... -
More Olympic Bailouts
From The Times: Ministers have approved a £461 million public bail-out of the London Olympics after private investment in two of the biggest venues on the East London site failed ... -
Tour Operators and Mega-events
The displacement of normal business by events such as the Super Bowl or the Olympics has been a staple issue in academic economists' analyses of economic impact. These warnings from ... -
Two Weeks Out From the World Cup, a Familiar Picture Emerges
The opening match between Brazil and Croatia will kick off two weeks from tomorrow. But there seems less anticipation leading up to the Cup on whether Brazil will reign supreme ... -
It's all Greek to Economists
Financial turmoil has roiled Greece over the past several weeks. There is real concern that budget deficits in that country will lead to its government defaulting on its debt and ... -
Sydney 2000, in hindsight
The Olympics was touted as the flame that would cast fresh light on the city and lure planeload after planeload of curious foreigners Down Under. Sydney's recognition soared and the ... -
"Going for the Gold: The Economics of the Olympics"
The Summer Olympics are just around the corner and the Spring 2016 issue of the Journal of Economic of Economic Perspectives has a paper on the economics of the Olympics. The ... -
Olympic post-mortem
Personally, less viewing was more fun. It was a shame though, to see "home-cooking" in the Men's 500m short-track race, where a Canadian judge made a marginal call to disqualify ... -
Allan Sanderson: Consider the Options
Allan Sanderson tells his readers that TANSTAAFO (Olympics, not lunch). Whether to support the Games themselves or merely the city's official bid, the latter carrying a price tag of $50 ... -
Olympic bailouts
The developers who are Vancouver's partners in the 2010 Winter Games reportedly have ... financial issues. UBC's Professor Somerville sums up the implications nicely, I think: "We’re looking at a ... -
Olympic Stew
A few random thoughts related to the Olympics: 400 Implosion for U.S. For the first time since WWII (excepting 1980), the U.S. will not medal in the men's 400 meters. ... -
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow
The Room for Debate blog at the New York Times runs a series of short opinion pieces today about the lack of snow in Vancouver at the opening of the ...
