The 50plus1-rule in German football is a controversially discussed institution that regulates investment behavior of … professional football teams. This paper discusses from a sports economics perspective the suspected market failures that the 50plus … in the German Major League Football ("Erste Bundesliga") from the seasons 1989/90 until 2018/2019. Applying various …

have focused on the intention to hire. Instead, we rely on a virtual labour market, the Fantasy Football Premier League …

We analyze attendance of professional football matches in England finding that it is related to unemployment over a … relationship is larger for lower leagues, i.e. attendance of lower quality football events are more sensitive to fluctuations in …

In 1983 England's fifth-tier football competition introduced a two-points-for-ahome-win and three …

football matches on crime focusing both on property crimes and interpersonal violent crimes. Our aim is to determine up to what … extent a private leisure activity, such as football matches, induces negative crime externalities to the whole society. Using … data on both football matches played by Football Club Barcelona (FCB) and geocoded recorded crime data for the City of …

Professional football has been going through a period of unprecedented economic growth since the ’90s. Football … the legal forms of professional football clubs, and in the use of modern controlling, planning, risk and financial … management. Important questions remain unanswered with regard to the financing of football clubs, such as the impact of risks or …