Simon Rottenberg’s seminal 1956 article in the Journal of Political Economy, 1956, is generally accepted as the starting point for the development of the economics of sport. While he recognised that certain features of professional sports leagues were unusual he saw little reason to treat this...

Airlines markets throughout the world have gradually gone through a liberalization process over the past 25 years. Regulatory changes involving other parts of the air transportation supply chain have globally been the subject of far less dramatic changes, and indeed some elements are still...

Airports have the potential because of their monopoly position to extract economic rent. This paper is concerned with variations in the rent obtained by airports and the factors that influence this. It extends the narrow focus on an airport's rent acquisition per se to see to what extent an...