Potential positive external effects of sports clubs often serve to justify their public subsidization. We study the effects of subsidies that sports clubs receive in the form of direct monetary financial transfers from public authorities and sport federations. To this end, we study a panel...

We analyzed whether, in democratic open societies, economic and demographic conditions allow sporting success at the aggregate level to be predicted. Theoretical considerations led to the hypothesis that the population size and gross domestic product (GDP) per capita should be important...

Auf der Basis einer internetbasierten Umfrage wurde die Prävalenz von Wettbewerbsverzerrungen im deutschen Fußball untersucht. Aufgrund der sensitiven Fragestellungen wurde die Randomized Response Technik eingesetzt, um Verzerrungen im Antwortverhalten zu reduzieren. Die Ergebnisse der Umfrage...

Our research contributes to recent literature on the socioeconomic determinants of Olympic success at the national level. We find that less corruption increases the chances of national Olympic success. Copyright International Atlantic Economic Society 2013

We develop a simple two-country model to trace out conditions under which countries join the international fight against doping. We show that the support for an internationally coordinated anti-doping policy depends on the extent to which the rules of the anti-doping fight, as formulated by the...

We apply ideas put forward in the literature on the international coordination of macroeconomic and trade policies to study the merits of an international coordination of antidoping policies. Without international coordination of antidoping policies, sports associations and National Antidoping...

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)...

The German elite sport training system contains both decentralized and centralized elements. Following Williamson’s (1975) transaction cost economics, we test the thesis that the optimal institutions of governance in the production of sporting success depend on the asset specificity. A...

Der Geschäftsbereich Leistungssport (GBL) des Deutschen Olympischen Sportbundes (DOSB) agiert als Common Agent ("Diener zweier Herren") der Sportverbände und des Bundesministern des Innern (BMI) bei der Verteilung der Sportfördermittel des BMI an die olympischen Spitzenverbände im DOSB. In...

Auf der Basis eines mittels einer Onlinebefragung erhobenen Datensatzes wird auf der Basis der haushalts- bzw. konsumgütertheoretischer Überlegungen und verhaltenstheoretischer Konzepte untersucht, wie der Umfang der von ehrenamtlich Engagierten in Fußballvereinen geleisteten Arbeit von der...