Roger Noll
Roger Noll
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It would need to have the Super Bowl every week to make it worth it, ... Why New Orleans believes it needs the Superdome to be a well known vacation city escapes me.
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If you put a Super Bowl in Detroit in January, it does have a big positive benefit to the city - a significant fraction of those who attend and spend hundreds of bucks a piece wouldn't be there otherwise. But if you do the same thing in New Orleans for Mardi Gras, you're just displacing people who would be there anyway.
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The issue is durability, ... As an economist, all my instincts tell me just as the dot.com bubble had to burst, the small-market, new-stadium phenomenon had to burst.