This research develops a model of optimal locations for Major League Soccer teams and investigates the important underlying factors.

In late 2011, at a time when other leagues such as the National Football League and the National Basketball Association had engaged in work stoppages, Major League Baseball owners and the MLB Players Association harmoniously agreed on a new five-year collective bargaining agreement. This article...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of roster turnover on demand in the National Basketball Association (NBA) over a five-year period (2000–2005) and compare these results to previous research on turnover in Major League Baseball (MLB). A censored regression equation was...

The National Basketball Association claims to sell entertainment. Part of that entertainment is close, competitive contests with uncertain outcomes. However, hometown fans want the home team to win. Hence, the optimal probability that the home team wins a game, from the perspective of maximizing...

To attract golf patrons, sport managers must understand consumption patterns of the golfer. Importantly, the treatment of travel costs must be understood. According to the Alchian-Allen (1964) theorem, golfers treat travel costs as bundled costs (third law of economic demand) whereas classical...

During the past decade there has been a proliferation of sports stadia being built in America’s municipal districts. While it used to be common for the public to fully fund stadium construction projects, over the past 20 years factors such as political motives, tax reform, and increased public...

This research utilizes local GDP in a panel data set of 383 MSAs in the U.S. during 2012-2017 to determine whether historical methods in the academic literature to measure the economic impact of sporting events, facilities, and teams are sensitive enough to generate conclusive statistically...

This paper considers a multi-firm analysis of a cartel. It examines the individual owner's choice of labor, the primary factor of production, and the cartel's choice of revenue sharing and salary cap policies in both a profit maximizing model and a utility maximizing model. The effect of...

The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, it is a complement to the many wage discrimination studies by examining exit discrimination in the NBA using a decade's worth of data (the 1980's). White players have a 36% lower risk of being cut than black players, ceteris paribus, translating...

This paper considers a multi-firm analysis of a cartel. It examines the individual owner's choice of labor, the primary factor of production, and the cartel's choice of revenue sharing and salary cap policies in both a profit maximizing model and a utility maximizing model. The effect of...