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 clubs. Nowadays, virtually all activities of sports associations that govern … and organize a sports discipline with business elements are subject to antitrust rules. This includes genuine sporting …

Between sports and happiness. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio- Economic Panel (GSOEP), we find a positive … correlation between sports participation and reported life satisfaction. This relationship is stronger at younger and older ages … causal directions. It turns out that the causal impact of engaging in sports on happiness is about four times higher than the …

Despite still being younger than a decade, the theory of multisided market has offered numerous valuable insights for … sports markets have largely been neglected so far in this kind of research although they possess the characteristics of … multisided markets. We contribute to filling this gap by describing the platform elements of professional suppliers of sports …

Despite still being younger than a decade, the theory of multisided markets has offered numerous valuable insights for …, professional sports markets have largely been neglected so far in this kind of research although they possess the characteristics … professional suppliers of sports events and conceptually outlining issues where an application of this theoretical framework is …

sports to choose trainers or even to select the athletes expected to perform best, with people paying a premium for this … beauty and what it proxies. When it is a bad heuristic, it generates sub-optimal outcomes for sports organizations. We … beauty premium in the context of Becker's economic theory of discrimination, wherein rational decision-makers trade …