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The Impact of the Euro 2012 on Popularity and Market Value of Football Players
Kiefer, Stephanie - In: International Journal of Sport Finance 9 (2014) 2, pp. 95-110
whether a good performance during the 2012 European Football Championship has an impact on the changes in online media … popularity (Facebook, Google and uefa.com). Moreover, it will investigate whether good performance and non-performance …-related popularity affect changes in market values. This study finds out that different Euro 2012 performance variables significantly …
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No Pain, No Gain? Effort and Productivity in Professional Soccer
Wicker, Pamela; Prinz, Joachim; Weimar, Daniel; … - In: International Journal of Sport Finance 8 (2013) 2, pp. 124-139
Several determinants of player values like productivity and human capital have been investigated in previous research; however, the influence of individual effort has been neglected. This study assumes that effort could be a signaling device and analyzes the effect of effort on market values of...
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Spanish Football Clubs Finances: Crisis and Player Salaries
Barajas, Ángel; Rodríguez, Plácido - In: International Journal of Sport Finance 5 (2010) 1, pp. 52-66
Second division. We also analyze the relationships between the size of market, team payrolls, and team performance. We …
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Assessing the Efficiency of Local Entities in the Provision of Public Sports Facilities
Benito, Benardino; Solana, José; Moreno, María-Rocío - In: International Journal of Sport Finance 7 (2012) 1, pp. 46-72
are to continue to be offered. Analysis of the factors that affect efficiency of local entities provides important … strategic information. A twostage double bootstrap procedure was used to estimate the efficiency determinants of Spanish local … entities in the provision of public sports facilities. In the first stage, robust efficiency estimates were obtained with a …
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Did the 2005 Collective Bargaining Agreement Really Improve Team Efficiency in the NHL?
Büschemann, Arne; Deutscher, Christian - In: International Journal of Sport Finance 6 (2011) 4, pp. 298-306
. Given these objectives, the question arises if efficiencies improved under the new CBA. Using team values as the dependent …
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Building Blocks for a Disequilibrium Model of a European Team Sports League
Andreff, Wladimir - In: International Journal of Sport Finance 9 (2014) 1, pp. 20-38
evidence of a European team sport (soccer) league where teams are win-maximizing and operate under a soft budget constraint …
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A Bivariate Probit Examination of Financial and Volunteer Problems of Non-Profit Sport Clubs
Coates, Dennis; Wicker, Pamela; Feiler, Svenja; Breuer, … - In: International Journal of Sport Finance 9 (2014) 3, pp. 230-248
Previous research has examined the financial and volunteer problems of non-profit sport clubs in an isolated manner and has neglected the influence that sponsorship and subsidy funding, which we term as external funding, may have on both problems. The purpose of this study is to examine the...
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The Relationship Between Participation in Sport and Sport Volunteering: An Economic Analysis
Dawson, Peter; Downward, Paul - In: International Journal of Sport Finance 8 (2013) 1, pp. 75-92
This paper explores the relationship between participation in sport as a consumer activity and sport volunteering as a producer activity. Using data from the Taking Part Survey, evidence is found that the decision to engage in sports participation and sports volunteering as well as the duration...
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Unemployment Duration and Sport Participation
Cabane, Charlotte - In: International Journal of Sport Finance 9 (2014) 3, pp. 261-280
have valuable non-cognitive skills (self-confidence, persistence, team spirit). In addition, they tend to be healthier …
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TV Demand for the Tour de France: The Importance of Stage Characteristics versus Outcome Uncertainty, Patriotism, and Doping
Reeth, Daam Van - In: International Journal of Sport Finance 8 (2013) 1, pp. 39-60
This paper analyzes TV demand for cycling in Flanders. Using data for 338 Tour de France broadcasts, average and peak TV audience per stage is estimated by an OLS regression model. A first set of independent variables measures the importance of stage scheduling and includes variables that define...
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