This article develops a socio-economic model that analyzes the doping decision of professional athletes. In their … endogenous variable that depends on the share of drug using athletes in the history of a sport. This way, the model can explain … multiple equilibria as doping cultures". Besides the comparative statics of the equilibrium (how can a doping culture be …

Die Analyse zeigt, dass Doping nicht nur eine Frage individueller Moralvorstellungen und Fairness ist, sondern aus … regelmäßig in ein Gefangenen-Dilemma, in dem Doping eine überlegene Strategie darstellt. Gedopt wird dabei nicht mehr nur um … Doping zu distanzieren, führt infolge eines Wettbewerbnachteils zu dessen Ausschluss aus dem Markt. Da sich die Athleten …

Several types of constraints must be satisfied by schedules of real world sports leagues, e. g. stadium unavailability … constraints are considered as 'soft' ones. There are various models appropriately describing the environment of real sport leagues … here a model which satisfies the demands of many sports leagues. We solve our model by a method which consists in …

In many countries, betting in sports is highly regulated. In Germany, however, there are current debates whether … regulation should be loosened. A crucial part of the argument is that sport bets could be qualified as games of skill that are … hypothesis in three incentivized online studies on soccer betting (N=214) and provide evidence against two crucial parts of this …

This paper presents an analysis of the effect of bureaucratic corruption on economic growth through a public finance …. Corruption takes the form of the embezzlement of public funds, the effect of which is to increase the government's reliance on …

This paper contributes to the literature on competition and corruption, by drawing on records from Calciopoli, a … judicial inquiry carried out in 2006 on corruption in the Italian soccer league. Unlike previous studies, we can estimate the … determinants of match rigging and use this information in identifying corruption episodes in years in which there are no pending …

werden, ständig werden Leistungen bewertet und in Rangfolgen gebracht. Gerade im Sport spielen Ratings und Rankings eine …