Economic Impact
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Exorbitant Costs and Minimal Benefits: the Impact of Hosting the Olympics
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Every four years, the world tunes in to watch pageantry, competition, and peak athletic performance at the Summer Olympics. Before the COVID-19 crisis, the 32nd Summer Olympiad was scheduled to take place in Tokyo from late July to early August 2020 and was marketed as the “Recovery Olympics” in light…
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Bidding for Fool’s Gold? The Uncertain Benefits of Hosting the World Cup
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A recent paper underscores the difficulty of studying the World Cup and does not draw firm conclusions, but finds suggestive evidence that hosting the World Cup could have a negative impact on exports.
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Where Have All The Bees Gone?
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New research looks at the link between colony collapse and pesticide exposure.
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Blowin’ Through Texas: Local Wind Farm Economics
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Wind farms create jobs in small communities. But are the economic benefits enjoyed mostly by city slickers?