Documenting Detroit's efforts to host the 1968 Olympics

The 2024 Olympic Games in Paris recently ended. With this event comes a typical avalanche of claims that the Games will produce a positive economic impact.

Women’s rugby player Ariana Ramsey’s videos showcasing her appointments have gone viral, and now many others are making good use of Paris's medical services.

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Olympic athletes' remarkable achievements are fueled by some of the same economic principles of technological advancements and human capital investments that impact total factor productivity.

Aside from a medal, a stuffed toy of the Olympics mascot and an official event poster, some medal winners are accorded additional financial rewards.

Winning athletes are being presented with medals on Louis Vuitton trays.

This article details standard incentives given to Olympic athletes for winning a medal either by their National Olympic Committee, the government of their country/territory, or both.

The hip-hop legend has become an unlikely champion of women’s water polo at this year’s Olympics.

The costs of hosting the Olympics often outweigh the benefits.

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Let’s take a look at some of these unseen effects of hosting mega-events and debunk the myth of Olympic-sized economic impacts.

Air France-KLM warned of a revenue shortfall at its French operations this summer because passengers are avoiding Paris to skirt possible disruptions and high prices during the Olympic Games.

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The U.S. Olympic team is one of a handful that will supply air conditioners for their athletes at the Paris Games in a move that undercuts organizers’ plans to cut carbon emissions.

Hosting the Olympics is an honor that comes with great financial responsibility. Here's how much host cities have spent in recent times.

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Forbes estimates that Simone Biles, undoubtedly one of the Tokyo Olympics’ most marketable athletes, earns at least $5 million annually in endorsements.

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TOKYO (AP) — The official price tag for the Tokyo Olympics in $15.4 billion, which a University of Oxford study says is the most expensive on record. What else could those billions buy? The ballpark figure for building a 300-bed hospital in Japan in $55 million.

According to the Council on Foreign Relations, every city hosting the Olympics since 1960 incurred cost overruns, sometimes by tens of billions of dollars.

Most studies of mega-events such as Olympic Games find a relatively small impact on the cities that host them. One reason given for this finding is that the event displaces tourists who otherwise wo...

This paper is the first to study the effects of hosting Olympic Games on regional economic output beyond population dynamics. For identification, runn…

A lot of people around the world will tune in to see the Summer Olympics opening ceremony this Friday, but how beneficial is it for Tokyo (or any other city) to even host the games?

Holy sh*t.

Something has to change.