Ascari, Guido; Gagnepain, Philippe - In: Journal of Sports Economics 8 (2007) 5, pp. 468-490
This article proposes to evaluate empirically the consequences of the rent-seeking behavior of football clubs on their costs. The empirical work entails estimating a football wage, result, and demand system with data on clubs competing in the first and second Spanish leagues during the 1996-2003...