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Appreciations on the Entertainment in the Rural Environment – Promoter of Sustainable Development in Tourism, that Practice Tourism Activities Centrated on Nature

Roxana, Dorobanþu Maria; Purda-Nicoarã … - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XII (2012) 1, pp. 904-909

areas represents a complex of activities that relate to cultural-sport, entertainment, recreation, etc., and which is … recreational activities in rural areas. The entertainment activity in the rural tourism is becoming an important facilitator of … sustainable development of any industry or community. In our article we intend to show the constituent elements of entertainment …

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Executive Interview: David Taylor

Troelsen, Troels - In: International Journal of Sport Finance 4 (2009) 3, pp. 155-160

UEFA is the sports governing body for football (soccer) in Europe with 53 national associations as members of a democratic organization. UEFA is also the most important member of FIFA, which is the international governing body for football. UEFA organizes all European Championships and Youth...

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Executive Interview: Andrew Demetriou

Booth, Ross - In: International Journal of Sport Finance 2 (2007) 3, pp. 123-129

An interview with Andrew Demetriou, CEO of the Australian Football League. …

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Is the Sports Media Color-Blind?

Berri, David J.; Gilder, Jennifer Van; Fenn, Aju J. - In: International Journal of Sport Finance 9 (2014) 2, pp. 130-148

Examinations of racial discrimination hinge upon the ability of the researcher to accurately measure worker productivity. To overcome this difficulty, researchers have utilized data from professional sports. Unlike many industries, professional sports provide an abundance of performance measures...

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Free Agent Auctions and Revenue Sharing: A Simple Approach

Rockerbie, Duane - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper uses a simple approach to address the issue of how revenue sharing in professional sports leagues can affect the allocation of free agent players to teams. To affect the allocation of free agents, the imposition of revenue sharing must alter the ranking of bidding teams in terms of...

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The Impact of Pooling and Sharing Broadcast Rights in Professional Team Sports

Kesenne, Stefan - In: International Journal of Sport Finance 4 (2009) 3, pp. 211-218

In this theoretical analysis, we try to find out what the impact is of pooling and sharing, and not just the sharing of broadcast rights, on the competitive balance in a sports league. We are using a simplified 2-club non-cooperative Nash equilibrium model with the hiring of talent as the only...

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The Impact of a Professional Sports Franchise on County Employment and Wages

Jasina, John; Rotthoff, Kurt - In: International Journal of Sport Finance 3 (2008) 4, pp. 210-227

Stadium boosters have long used the promise of economic development as a means to gain public support for financing local sports teams. Past research has shown little or no impact on employment or income when viewed at the MSA level. This paper expands the current literature on the economic...

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Nobody's innocent: the role of customers in the doping dilemma

Buechel, Berno; Emrich, Eike; Pohlkamp, Stefanie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

To which extent high performances in professional sports are based on the use of illicit substances or other doping practices is extremely difficult to measure empirically. Game-theoretical approaches predict strong incentives to dope based on the interaction among athletes (prisoner's dilemma)...

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Do Soccer Referees Display Home Bias?

Lucey, Brian M. - 2009

This paper examines bias in soccer referees actions, particularly through their decisions regarding extra time added. We review the literature on principle-agent interactions, in particular as it applies to sporting contests, and isolate some potential causal mechanisms and hypotheses. We then...

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Long-Term Contracts in Major League Baseball

Hakes, Jahn Karl - 2008

Long-term deals are one tool that both players and franchises use to manage risk. That tool has been much discussed and empirically tested with respect to player shirking, and has more briefly, and only theoretically, discussed with respect to reducing variance in future payrolls. Our work looks...

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