type="main" xml:id="sjpe12060-abs-0001" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>This paper analyzes spillover effects in sports leagues that are embedded in a system of promotion and relegation. Based on a contest model of a professional sports league with a top division and a second division, we show that league prizes and...</p>

Past comparative work argues that the differences between European and North American sports dramatically outweigh any similarities. This paper explores the arguments that fans, sports organizations, and team objectives are different in the two regions and offers a set of questions that must be...

type="main" xml:id="sjpe12061-abs-0001" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>This is an essay review of the literature on utility maximization as a managerial objective in pro team sports. It ends up that there is a heretofore-unrecognized parallel development of the idea, in English football by Sloane [Scottish Journal of...</p>

type="main" xml:id="sjpe12052-abs-0001" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>This paper analyzes the adverse incentive effects produced by money injections of benefactors [sugar daddies (SD)]. We show that the existence of a SD induces the club to choose a riskier investment strategy and the more the SD commits to bailout...</p>