The social media phenomenon has provided tremendous opportunities for self-promotion. From global pop star, Psy, reaching over 1.2 billion YouTube viewers (as of this writing) with his smash hit, “Gangnam Style” to recent college graduates “getting themselves out there” in the job market...

What does race have to do with it? Nothing, really, when it comes to the purses professional boxers receive in world title bouts. The contracted purses for 32 world title bouts were analyzed using a multivariate regression model with the boxer's purse as the dependent variable and five...

Despite concerns over the commodification of higher education in North America, Great Britain, and Oceania (Shumar,1997; Sappey, 2005; Kaye, Bickel & Birtwistle, 2006; Lewis, 2010) the evidence does not justify such fears. Drawing on price elasticity of demand data and enrollment patterns for public, elite...

Beginning with the seminal work in the field now known as sports economics (Rottenberg, 1956), concern over competitive balance has been a recurring theme. While the vast majority of the focus has been on popular professional team sports, a few studies have analyzed competitive balance in the...