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Research on the Prediction of the likely Winners of the Euro 2008 Football Tournament
Halicioglu, Ferda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
football tournaments with particular reference to the Euro 2008 football tournament. This research argues that there exists a … positive relationship between the competitive balance and success in international football tournaments. The level of the … competitive balance in a domestic football league is measured by the seasonal coefficients of variation (CV) of the end …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005055520
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Salary Cap Regulation in Professional Team Sports
Dietl, Helmut; Franck, Egon; Lang, Markus; Rathke, Alexander - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2008
aggregate salary payments. Taking into account the idiosyncrasies of European football, our paper further highlights the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015174
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Competitive Balance and Revenue Sharing in Sports Leagues with Utility-Maximizing Teams
Dietl, Helmut; Grossmann, Martin; Lang, Markus - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2009
This paper develops a contest model of a professional sports league in which clubs maximize a weighted sum of profits and wins (utility maximization). The model analyzes how more win-oriented behavior of certain clubs affects talent investments, competitive balance and club profits. Moreover, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509393
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A Contest Model of a Professional Sports League with Two-Sided Markets
Dietl, Helmut; Duschl, Tobias; Franck, Egon; Lang, Markus - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 232 (2012) 3, pp. 336-359
This paper develops a model of a professional sports league with network externalities by integrating the theory of two-sided markets into a two-stage contest model. In professional team sports, the competition of the clubs functions as a platform that enables sponsors to interact with fans. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570337
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Competitive Balance and Revenue Sharing in Sports Leagues with Utility-Maximizing Teams
Dietl, Helmut; Grossmann, Martin; Lang, Markus - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2009
This paper develops a contest model of a professional sports league in which clubs maximize a weighted sum of profits and wins (utility maximization). The model analyzes how more win-oriented behavior of certain clubs affects talent investments, competitive balance and club profits. Moreover, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739910
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A Contest Model of a Professional Sports League with Two-Sided Markets
Dietl, Helmut; Duschl, Tobias; Franck, Egon; Lang, Markus - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2009
This paper develops a model of a professional sports league with network externalities by integrating the theory of two-sided markets into a contest model. In professional team sports, the competition of the clubs functions as a platform that enables sponsors to interact with fans. In these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739922
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Salary Cap Regulation in Professional Team Sports
Dietl, Helmut; Franck, Egon; Lang, Markus; Rathke, Alexander - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2008
aggregate salary payments. Taking into account the idiosyncrasies of European football, our paper further highlights the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739925
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The Sugar Daddy's Game: How Wealthy Investors Change Competition in Professional Team Sports
Grossmann, Martin; Lang, Markus; Theiler, Philipp - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2010
Professional sports leagues have witnessed the appearance of so-called "sugar daddies" - people who invest enormous amounts of money into clubs and become their owners. This paper presents a contest model of a professional sports league that incorporates this phenomenon. We analyze how the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739927
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The Sugar Daddy's Game: How Wealthy Investors Change Competition in Professional Team Sports
Grossmann, Martin; Lang, Markus; Theiler, Philipp - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2010
Professional sports leagues have witnessed the appearance of so-called "sugar daddies" - people who invest enormous amounts of money into clubs and become their owners. This paper presents a contest model of a professional sports league that incorporates this phenomenon. We analyze how the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008542524
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A Contest Model of a Professional Sports League with Two-Sided Markets
Dietl, Helmut; Duschl, Tobias; Franck, Egon; Lang, Markus - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2009
This paper develops a model of a professional sports league with network externalities by integrating the theory of two-sided markets into a contest model. In professional team sports, the competition of the clubs functions as a platform that enables sponsors to interact with fans. In these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008542525