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An Examination of the Effects of the Recent Economic Crisis on Major League Baseball (MLB) Attendance Demand
Coates, Dennis; Hong, Sung Il; Mondello, Michael - International Association of Sport Economists - IASE; … - 2011
We investigate the effects of the recent economic crisis on Major League Baseball (MLB) attendance during the 2008 and …. The estimates for the coincident indicators suggests the economic downturn drives a fall in attendance of about 6 … crisis on attendance in MLB suggests the indicator is a viable proxy for income in game attendance demand studies. …
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The determinants of demand in football matches during the 2007 Brazilian Championship
Santana, Synthia Kariny Silva de; Silva, Alexandre … - International Association of Sport Economists - IASE; … - 2009
more transparently managed, it is necessary to examine the factors that now determine the attendance at football matches …
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Price, Income & Unemployment Effects on Greek Professional Football
Avgerinou, Vassiliki; Giakoumatos, Stefanos - International Association of Sport Economists - IASE; … - 2009
investigate the effect of sporting and economic variables on the attendance in Greek football stadia. Price, income and …
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Executive Pay Regulation: What Regulators, Shareholders, and Managers Can Learn from Major Sports Leagues
Dietl, Helmut; Duschl, Tobias; Lang, Markus - International Association of Sport Economists - IASE; … - 2011
Executive pay regulation is widely discussed as a measure to reduce financial mismanagement in corporations. We show that the professional team sports industry, the only industry with substantial experience in the regulation of compensation arrangements, provides valuable insights for the...
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TV Revenue Sharing as a Coordination Device in Sports Leagues
Peeters, Thomas - International Association of Sport Economists - IASE; … - 2011
As sports clubs jointly produce contests, they cannot determine contest quality through their private talent investments. Sports leagues therefore try to coordinate talent investments towards the profit-maximizing contest quality. In this paper I analyze how revenue sharing mechanisms may serve...
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The Sugar Daddy's Game: How Wealthy Investors Change Competition in Professional Team Sports
Lang, Markus; Grossmann, Martin; Theiler, Philipp - International Association of Sport Economists - IASE; … - 2011
Professional sports leagues have witnessed the appearance of so-called "sugar daddies" - people who invest enormous amounts of money into clubs and become their owners. This paper presents a contest model of a professional sports league that incorporates this phenomenon. We analyze how the...
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Organizational Differences between U.S. Major Leagues and European Leagues: Implications for Salary Caps
Dietl, Helmut; Franck, Egon; Lang, Markus; Rathke, Alexander - International Association of Sport Economists - IASE; … - 2011
This paper outlines and compares the organizational structure of major sports leagues, explores the reasoning behind their formation, and derives implications for salary caps in European football. To understand why sports leagues have developed a specific organizational structure, one must take...
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The Institutional Framework for Doing Sports Business: Principles of EU Competition Policy in Sports Markets
Budzinski, Oliver - International Association of Sport Economists - IASE; … - 2011
The competition rules and policy framework of the European Union represents an important institutional restriction for doing sports business. Driven by the courts, the 2007 overhaul of the approach and methodology has increased the scope of competition policy towards sports associations and...
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Sports Business and Multisided Markets: Towards a New Analytical Framework? (Long Version)
Budzinski, Oliver; Satzer, Janina - International Association of Sport Economists - IASE; … - 2011
Despite still being younger than a decade, the theory of multisided markets has offered numerous valuable insights for the analysis of industries in which a supplier serves two distinct customer groups that are indirectly interrelated by externalities. Examples include payment systems, matching...
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The shape of success: estimating contest success functions in sports
Peeters, Thomas - International Association of Sport Economists - IASE; … - 2011
In this note I estimate and compare Tullock- and Hirshleifer-style contest success functions (CSFs) using data from the 4 major American sports leagues. I ?nd that Tullock CSFs based on relative efforts fit the data better than Hirshleifer CSFs based on absolute effort differences.
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