Costs: : the rest of the economic impact story

@article{Crompton2013CostsT,
 title={Costs: : the rest of the economic impact story},
 author={John L. Crompton and Dennis Ramsay Howard},
 journal={Journal of Sport Management},
 year={2013},
 volume={27},
 pages={379-392},
 url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:13821685}
}
Economic impact studies are frequently commissioned to justify investments in sport projects. However, decisions also should include a consideration of a project’s costs since it is the net return on investment that should drive decisions. Whenever taxpayer funds are expended on a sports project there is an opportunity cost. Three types of opportunity cost are discussed. Explicit costs are those for which a government entity "writes a check." They are comprised of event costs, land and...

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