Barros, Carlos Pestana; Leach, Stephanie - In: Applied Economics 38 (2006) 12, pp. 1449-1458
This paper uses data envelopment analysis (DEA) to evaluate the performance of English Premier League football clubs from 1998/99 to 2002/03 combining sport and financial variables. The paper evaluates how close the clubs are relative to the frontier of best practices, analysing how they manage...