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Estimating the Economic Impact of Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game Using High Frequency Tourism Data

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  • Robert Baumann

    (College of the Holy Cross)

  • Victor Matheson

    (College of the Holy Cross)

  • E. Frank Stephenson

    (Berry College)

  • Robert Murray

    (College of the Holy Cross)

Abstract

Despite claims, primarily from Republican lawmakers, that the removal of the 2021 Major League Baseball All-Star Game has cost local businesses in the Atlanta area $100 million in damages, an examination of hotel occupancy during the 2014 All-Star Game in Minneapolis and the 2019 All-Star Game in Cleveland suggests that these events generated at most 10,000 additional room nights and $4.5 million in additional hotel revenues for the host cities. These figures suggest that the All-Star Game generates a total direct marginal increase in tourism spending of only $3.9 to $9.4 million. Claiming that Georgia has lost $100 million from the removal of the game is pure fiction with no basis in economic data.

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  • Robert Baumann & Victor Matheson & E. Frank Stephenson & Robert Murray, 2021. "Estimating the Economic Impact of Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game Using High Frequency Tourism Data," Working Papers 2101, College of the Holy Cross, Department of Economics.
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    • L83 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Sports; Gambling; Restaurants; Recreation; Tourism
    • Z20 - Other Special Topics - - Sports Economics - - - General

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