Euro 2012 economic impact on host cities in Poland

Zawadzki, Krystian (2013): Euro 2012 economic impact on host cities in Poland. Published in:

Abstract

The UEFA European Championship (Euro) is among the world's most important sporting events staged nowadays. Apart from tremendous excitement among football fans, such a major event has a number of other implications, above all of economic nature. This study, as one of the few concerned with the Polish circumstances, is intended to determine what significance should be attributed to stage the Euro 2012 in Polish host cities. aware of the difficulty in finding an unequivocal answer, the Authorfocused on four isolated areas of impact, namely: sports infrastructure, other infrastructure, tourist traffic and the labour market.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Euro 2012; Mega sport's event; economic impact
• Subjects: H - Public Economics > H4 - Publicly Provided Goods > H40 - General; H - Public Economics > H4 - Publicly Provided Goods > H41 - Public Goods; H - Public Economics > H4 - Publicly Provided Goods > H42 - Publicly Provided Private Goods; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J3 - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs > J30 - General; R - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics > R0 - General

References

Zawadzki, K., Euro 2012 Economic Impact on Host Cities in Poland, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbruecken 2013, 129 pages.