Economics and Financing Flashcards
geographic area of impact
- provide, region, city
- usually reflects funding source
- displaced spending
expenditure approach
- Estimate attendance at an event
- Survey attendees to find spending associated with the event
- Apply multiplier to account for recirculation if money in local economy
- Multiplier: The degree to which spending induces additional rounds of spending
income approach
- Total payments to workers and suppliers in related industry
- Apply multiplier
substitution effect
If attendees spend money on an event instead of something else in the local economy = reallocation of expenditures, not net increase in economic activity
time switching
- Visit to city already planned
2. Schedule simply rearranged to accommodate event
casual visitors
Someone in an area for unrelated purpose but attends event while they are in town
incremental visitos
- Those who come to a region for the purposes of the event – direct spending fully attributable to the event
- These are the most important ones as they represent direct, new, spending as a result of the event
indirect spending
- recirculation of money in economy after direct spending on the event
- For example, event worker spends his/her salary on groceries
induced spending
how direct and indirect impacts affect earnings and employment
multiplier
- Helps to estimate indirect and induced impacts
- Estimates the number of times a dollar will get reused in an economy. Beware impact studies that employ a multiplier greater than 2
5 ways direct spending recirculates
1. Other private businesses in same economy Suppliers, maintenance, etc. 2. Employees in same economy Wages, tips, etc. 3. Local government Sales taxes, property taxes 4. Non-local government Sales taxes, taxes on profits 5. Employees, businesses, etc., outside the local economy
leakages
- Spending that does not remain in the local economy
- e.g. if economy is at or near full employment, may be hiring people who do not live in the area
crowding out
- May discourage economic activity in areas that are already popular as tourist destinations Where activity occurs during peak visiting times
- New event spending simply supplanting spending that would otherwise occur
- e.g. Athens Olympics
reverse time switcher
people who leave because of the event
Solutions to getting more accurate impact estimates
- Ignore local residents in impact estimates
- Exclude Time Switchers and Casual
- Consider costs and opportunity costs
mega event
- Huge infrastructure costs
- Huge operating costs
- Many estimates grossly exaggerated
physical impact of intangible benefits
the emotional impact that a community receives by virtue of hosting an event Impacts received by those not directly involved in the event. May be used to justify (part of) subsidy to build infrastructure or host an event
survey mythology
Respondents asked their willingness to pay an increase in taxes to see an increase in a public good (or avoid losing a public good)