nep-spo New Economics Papers
on Sports and Economics
Issue of 2008‒10‒13
two papers chosen by
Joao Carlos Correia Leitao
Technical University of Lisbon

  1. Sport Practice Tourism: a segment of the Sport Tourism Market By Carvalho, Pedro G.; Lourenço, Rui
  2. Individual behavior and group membership: Comment By Matthias Sutter

  1. By: Carvalho, Pedro G.; Lourenço, Rui
    Abstract: Sport Tourism represents the knowledge and the group of practices where Sport and Tourism became interdependent. This overlapping area turns clearly at two levels that might be named by Sport Tourism Spectacle and Sport Tourism Practice. According to Pigeassou [9] the foundations of sport tourism do not consist purely of classifying sport tourism activities using categories employed in sport activities. In this article we provide a theoretical framework for the understanding of the market segment in Sport Tourism Practice, looking at their client behaviour typology (enthusiastic and casual), their motivations and high lightening the role this framework plays on the tourist destiny development. Furthermore we present some empirical results of a seminal experimental design.
    Keywords: Tourism; Sport; Sport Tourism; Sport Tourism Practice; Sport Tourism Spectacle.
    JEL: O18 L83
    Date: 2008–08
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:10959&r=spo
  2. By: Matthias Sutter (Department of Public Finance, University of Innsbruck, and Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg.)
    Abstract: Charness et al. (2007) have shown that group membership has a strong effect on individual decisions in strategic games when group membership is salient through payoff commonality. In this comment I show that their findings also apply to non-strategic decisions, even when no outgroup exists, and I relate the effects of group membership on individual decisions to joint decision making in teams. I find in an investment experiment that individual decisions with salient group membership are largely the same as team decisions. This finding bridges the literature on team decision making and on group membership effects.
    Keywords: Individual behavior, group membership, team decision-making, experiment
    JEL: C91 C92 D71
    Date: 2008–10–07
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:jrp:jrpwrp:2008-075&r=spo

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