Journal of International & Interdisciplinary Business Research Volume 5 Article 4 June 2018 Projected Economic and Financial Benefits of the 2017 Summer Universiade Games Steve Chen Morehead State University,
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[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholars.fhsu.edu/jiibr Part of the Business Commons, Economics Commons, and the Sports Studies Commons Recommended Citation Chen, Steve; Ghirmay, Teame; Lee, Yi-hua; Dongfang, Chie-der; and Chiu, Tsung-Chih (2018) "Projected Economic and Financial Benefits of the 2017 ummeS r Universiade Games," Journal of International & Interdisciplinary Business Research: Vol. 5 , Article 4. Available at: https://scholars.fhsu.edu/jiibr/vol5/iss1/4 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by FHSU Scholars Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of International & Interdisciplinary Business Research by an authorized editor of FHSU Scholars Repository. Projected Economic and Financial Benefits of the 2017 Summer Universiade Games Cover Page Footnote The uthora s would like to appreciate Mrs. Mary Jerde's effort for editing the article. This article is available in Journal of International & Interdisciplinary Business Research: https://scholars.fhsu.edu/jiibr/vol5/iss1/4 Chen et al.: Projected Economic and Financial Benefits PROJECTED ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL BENEFITS OF THE 2017 SUMMER UNIVERSIADE GAMES Steve Chen, Morehead State University Teame Ghirmay, Morehead State University Yi-hua Lee, University of Taipei Chie-der Dongfan, Soochow University, Taiwan Tsung-Chih Chiu, Jin-wen University, Taiwan In Western society, sport economic impact studies are often utilized to showcase the financial benefits for hosting mega sport event or to justify the spending for entering bids or covering infrastructure construction costs.