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Financial Fair Play and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (2022)
Journal Article
Sroka, R. (in press). Financial Fair Play and the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Journal of Global Sport Management, https://doi.org/10.1080/24704067.2022.2032258

This article examines four major Financial Fair Play (FFP) cases that have come before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). Although significant previous work has addressed FFP in European football, there is a major gap where its treatment at th... Read More about Financial Fair Play and the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

International sporting mega-events and conditionality (2021)
Journal Article
Sroka, R. (2021). International sporting mega-events and conditionality. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 13(3), 461-477. https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2021.1905034

This article examines host contracts for international sporting mega-events as a forum for conditionality in developing world infrastructure projects, with a focus on the Rio 2016 Olympics host agreement. With emerging economies hosting an ever-incre... Read More about International sporting mega-events and conditionality.

Mega-Events and Rapid Transit: Evaluating the Canada Line 10 Years After Vancouver 2010 (2021)
Journal Article
Sroka, R. (2021). Mega-Events and Rapid Transit: Evaluating the Canada Line 10 Years After Vancouver 2010. Public Works Management and Policy, 26(3), 220-238. https://doi.org/10.1177/1087724x211003099

This article examines the Canada Line rapid rail transit project in Vancouver, British Columbia, a decade after its completion and the 2010 Winter Olympic Games for which it was accelerated. The case resides at the intersection of two project classes... Read More about Mega-Events and Rapid Transit: Evaluating the Canada Line 10 Years After Vancouver 2010.

Mega-projects and mega-events: evaluating Vancouver 2010 stadium and convention infrastructure (2021)
Journal Article
Sroka, R. (2021). Mega-projects and mega-events: evaluating Vancouver 2010 stadium and convention infrastructure. Journal of Sport and Tourism, 25(3), 183-200. https://doi.org/10.1080/14775085.2021.1881590

This paper evaluates two infrastructure mega-projects connected to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver’s downtown peninsula: the renovation of BC Place Stadium and the Vancouver Convention Centre expansion. These projects correspond to two categori... Read More about Mega-projects and mega-events: evaluating Vancouver 2010 stadium and convention infrastructure.

Tax increment financing and major league venues (2020)
Journal Article
Sroka, R. (2020). Tax increment financing and major league venues. Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal, 10(4), 495-517. https://doi.org/10.1108/sbm-09-2019-0076

Purpose This article intends to shine a light on venue-related tax increment financing (TIF) through the first comprehensive inventory of its use at the major league level. Design/methodology/approach For each 2018 venue in the five North Americ... Read More about Tax increment financing and major league venues.

Getting STIF[ed]: Louisville’s Yum! Center, Sales-Tax Increment Financing, and Megaproject Underperformance (2019)
Journal Article
Sroka, R. (2020). Getting STIF[ed]: Louisville’s Yum! Center, Sales-Tax Increment Financing, and Megaproject Underperformance. Urban Affairs Review, 56(5), 1553-1580. https://doi.org/10.1177/1078087419830527

This article evaluates the revenue performance failings of the Yum! Center, a sports arena in Louisville, with the primary objective of explaining how a flawed deal arose in the first place. While the literature addressing public subsidization of spo... Read More about Getting STIF[ed]: Louisville’s Yum! Center, Sales-Tax Increment Financing, and Megaproject Underperformance.