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dc.contributor.authorNarayan, Paresh Kumar
dc.contributor.authorSmyth, Russell
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T16:40:21Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T16:40:21Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.identifier.issn00036846
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/0003684032000133223
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/27726
dc.description.abstractThis study applies Granger causality tests to examine the relationship between attendance, admission prices and real income at the Melbourne Cup, which is Australia's premier horseracing event and one of the world's leading handicap races. The motivation for the paper is that while market demand suggests that causation should run from admission price to attendance, it is equally plausible that sporting authorities could alter admission prices in response to a change in demand reflected in attendance. The main findings are that in the short-run there is unidirectional Granger causality running from income to attendance, attendance to admission price and income to admission price, while in the long run both admission price and income Granger cause attendance.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1649
dc.relation.ispartofpageto1657
dc.relation.ispartofissue15
dc.relation.ispartofjournalApplied Economics
dc.relation.ispartofvolume35
dc.subject.fieldofresearchApplied Economics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEconometrics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchBanking, Finance and Investment
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1402
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1403
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1502
dc.titleAttendance and Pricing at Sporting Events: Empirical Results From Granger Causality Tests for the Melbourne Cup
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.date.issued2015-02-11T04:02:15Z
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorNarayan, Paresh


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