We investigate stadium attendance in the highest level of Dutch professional football for the seasons 2000/01 - 2015 …/16 focusing on outcome uncertainty, loss aversion and team quality. We find that for individual football matches, attendance is … impact of the introduction of a unique and large end-of-season play-off scheme for the qualification for European football. …

attendance effects of new sports stadiums in a European sports league, i.e. the top tier of Dutch professional football … persists. There is no transient novelty effect but a long-lasting positive attendance effect of new football stadiums. …

We study whether there is a racial bias in ratings of professional football players in Italian newspapers. We find that … discrimination. Clubs simply want value for money. Newspaper football experts do seem to have a racial bias in their rating of …

agreements, however, reduce total welfare in the market and raise antitrust concerns. Taking externalities into account may help …

collegiate basketball. We extend their analysis to large samples of Australian football, American football and rugby matches, but …

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

, analyzing five seasons of the top tier of professional football in the Netherlands. Empty stadiums caused home advantages to …

illegal gains, as often outlined in existing antitrust regulation, and detection probabilities depend on the degree of … collusion. We introduce cartel culture that describes how likely cartels persist after each conviction. Our analysis … disentangles the effects of traditional antitrust regulation, leniency, and cartel strategies. Without rewards to the strictly …