Baade’s 18-page paper, “Going for the Gold: The Economics of the Olympics,” which he co-authored with Victor Matheson of College of the Holy Cross, was originally published in the Journal of Economic Perspective. 

Their published findings prompted Mapping Ignorance, a website dedicated to scientific divulgation, to post “The economics of hosting the Olympic Games,” and The Washington Post’s Robert Samuelson to write “The Olympic sinkhole.”