As a professional sport, professional football teams in a league compete in imperfect market conditions since every team in a professional football league may be known by their differentiated product (i.e. the quality of football they play). If the competition level increases, the quality of...

This study is primarily concerned with the degree of professional football competition in the Turkish first division football since its establishment. Moreover, this article aims to find the optimal number of football teams in a league as well as presenting the effects of the changes in point...

This paper analyses the impact of point systems on the degree of competition in professional football leagues via the annual coefficient of variation (CV) of end-of-season points. The past, existing and some alternative point systems were applied to a hypothetical football league consisting of...

This study is based on a statistical analysis of the Turkish professional football and provides a football competition index for over 40 years.

Multi-unit auctions are promising mechanisms for the reallocation of water. The main advantage of such auctions is to avoid the lumpy bid issue. However, there is great uncertainty about the best auction formats when multi-unit auctions are used. The theory can only supply the structural...

EPA's central mission is to carry out its various statutory directives to protect the nation's health, welfare, and environment from the risks posed by pollution. Because the nation's resources are limited, EPA seeks to the extent legally permitted to direct those resources towards the actions...

www.can.nl\~cool Comments: 39 pages in Word - zipped JEL: N0, Z0 EWP References: ewp-get/9604002 ewp-get/9604003 Report-no: Thomas Cool 96-05

Keynes proposed that a ‘Commod Control’ agency be created after the Second World War to stabilise spot prices of key internationally traded commodities by systematically buying and selling physical buffer stocks. In this paper, the creation of a new Global Commodity Insurer (GCI) is...