英文摘要 |
Purpose: Winning to host mega sports events benefits a city's reputation, tourism and economic activities. In order to better understand the economic activity of the city which wins the game bidding, the event study is used to examine the impact of winning to host the mega sport event on the stock market. Method: We adopt the Summer Unversiade Game as the mega sport event to analyze the stock market reactions in ShenZhen, China, competing to hold the 26^(th) Summer Universiade Game, around the time of the winning bid announcement. We employ event study analysis in order to assess the abnormal returns (AR) and cumulative abnormal returns (CAR) in ShenZhen's stock exchange. Results: The empirical results indicate significant positive abnormal returns at the announcement day and the next day. Further, we find positive cumulative abnormal returns last 6 days from the day after the announcement day in stock market. Our findings are in line with previous studies: the announcement of hosting mega sport events has positive impact (both AR & CAR) for the bid winner's stock market. Conclusions: We may conclude that, the day before the announcement day could be a great time for investors to invest in the winner's stock market. |