The 2008 Economic Impacts of the Olympic Swim Trials And the NCAA Basketball and Volleyball Tournaments on the City of Omaha

Authors

Ernest Goss, Creighton UniversityFollow
Eric Thompson, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

4-28-2009

Comments

Copyright 2009 Goss & Thompson

Abstract

Table of Contents

Executive Summary 3

Chapter 1: The Olympic Swim Trials and NCAA Basketball and Volleyball Tournaments: A Brief Overview 11

Chapter 2: Measuring the Economic Impact of an Amateur Athletic Event 18

Chapter 3: Economic Impacts 23

Appendix A: Types of Economic Impacts 31

Appendix B: The Multiplier Effect 34

Appendix C: Choosing a Technique to Measure Impacts 36

Appendix D: Implan Multipliers Used in this Study 38

Appendix E: Author Biographies 39