Local development and competitive soccer teams location. The Portuguese case

Local development and competitive soccer teams location. The Portuguese case

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This work is focused on testing the following hypothesis: “The competitivenessof a Portuguese professional soccer team is influenced by the economicdevelopment level of the surrounding region.” Using a rational choice model andworking with binary time-series cross-sectional data, this work focuses o...

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Main Author: Paulo Reis Mourão
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AECR 2008-06-01
Series:Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research
Subjects:
Regional development
Sports
BTSCS
logit models.
Online Access:http://www.aecr.org/images/ImatgesArticles/2008/06b%20Reis.pdf
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spelling doaj-50a3cd56ede94231a6af946fe2ab98152020-11-24T22:27:56ZengAECRInvestigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research1695-72532008-06-0112135143Local development and competitive soccer teams location. The Portuguese casePaulo Reis MourãoThis work is focused on testing the following hypothesis: “The competitivenessof a Portuguese professional soccer team is influenced by the economicdevelopment level of the surrounding region.” Using a rational choice model andworking with binary time-series cross-sectional data, this work focuses on a Portugueseprofessional soccer team from 1970 to 1999. This is the first work on the teamsand economy of Portugal that tests this hypothesis. The results corroborate the mainimportance of three factors that increase the probability that a municipality willhouse the head office of a team that plays in the first league: 1) the per capita income,2) level of infrastructures, and 3) demographic dimension.http://www.aecr.org/images/ImatgesArticles/2008/06b%20Reis.pdfRegional developmentSportsBTSCSlogit models.
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Local development and competitive soccer teams location. The Portuguese case
Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research
Regional development
Sports
BTSCS
logit models.
author_facet Paulo Reis Mourão
author_sort Paulo Reis Mourão
title Local development and competitive soccer teams location. The Portuguese case
title_short Local development and competitive soccer teams location. The Portuguese case
title_full Local development and competitive soccer teams location. The Portuguese case
title_fullStr Local development and competitive soccer teams location. The Portuguese case
title_full_unstemmed Local development and competitive soccer teams location. The Portuguese case
title_sort local development and competitive soccer teams location. the portuguese case
publisher AECR
series Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research
issn 1695-7253
publishDate 2008-06-01
description This work is focused on testing the following hypothesis: “The competitivenessof a Portuguese professional soccer team is influenced by the economicdevelopment level of the surrounding region.” Using a rational choice model andworking with binary time-series cross-sectional data, this work focuses on a Portugueseprofessional soccer team from 1970 to 1999. This is the first work on the teamsand economy of Portugal that tests this hypothesis. The results corroborate the mainimportance of three factors that increase the probability that a municipality willhouse the head office of a team that plays in the first league: 1) the per capita income,2) level of infrastructures, and 3) demographic dimension.
topic Regional development
Sports
BTSCS
logit models.
url http://www.aecr.org/images/ImatgesArticles/2008/06b%20Reis.pdf
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