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The winner's curse: why is the cost of sports mega-events so often underestimated?

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    (CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

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Auction theory, when the bidders do not know the value of what is auctionned, is used to explain how the Olympic Games are allocated to competing bidding cities. It is a centralized allocation process with asymmetric information which usually comes out with a winner's curse. Various indicators of the latter are proposed and exemplified, the major one being the systematic ex ante underestimation of the Olympics costs.

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  • Wladimir Andreff, 2012. "The winner's curse: why is the cost of sports mega-events so often underestimated?," Post-Print halshs-00703466, HAL.
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