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- Title
What a Difference a Week Makes: Comparing the Economic Impact of Successive Collegiate Football Games in a Single City.
- Authors
Greco, Anthony J.
- Abstract
This article compares the differential economic impacts on the City of Lafayette, Louisiana, of two collegiate football games involving the University of Louisiana-Lafayette (ULL) and two other universities on consecutive Saturdays in September 2009. The first opponent of ULL was an in-state university, and the second was an out-of-state university larger in size than the first opponent and more renowned in collegiate football circles. The article provides pre-game estimates of the economic impact of each contest on the Lafayette economy, as well as the likely post-game effects of the respective games on the economy. The author calculated the economic impacts using RIMS II Multipliers computed by the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the U. S. Department of Commerce. Perhaps, unexpectedly, the game against the smaller, lesser-known opponent yielded a much larger economic impact on the Lafayette economy.
- Subjects
LAFAYETTE (La.); FOOTBALL games; ECONOMIC impact; UNITED States. Bureau of Economic Analysis; TULANE University; FOOTBALL
- Publication
Journal of Multidisciplinary Research (1947-2900), 2022, Vol 14, Issue 1, p55
- ISSN
1947-2900
- Publication type
Article