We examine the comparative effectiveness of three alternative licensing systems in professional football. The three … systems’ main concern is with the promulgation of responsible financial behaviour among football clubs. To that effect, all …

The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in American Needle v. National Football League is not the “death knell” of … antitrust scrutiny than they had hoped. The issue in American Needle v. National Football League was whether the NFL …

purpose is to promote football, have a rule-making power, concerning the issuance of these licenses, taking into consideration …

Billions of euros are invested every year by professional football clubs for the recruitment of players. How do market … on the transfer market for professional football (soccer) players. The statistical technique used to build the model is … various applications of the approach developed for the football industry to both assess and predict football players' transfer …

We develop a new dynamic multivariate model for the analysis and the forecasting of football match results in national … six large European football competitions and we validate the precision of the forecasts for a period of seven years for …

This paper develops a theory of contests based on perceived abilities, and provides evidence for the predictions of … this theory using panel data from professional soccer. We examine how soccer players perform in club matches during the … significant effect. We also find support for the theory that players whose nomination is close to certain reduce their effort in …