Given the actual debate, in many European countries, about the need for public administrations to raise their revenues through taxing the crime externalities generated by some private leisure activities, this article analyzes the effect of football matches on crime focusing both on property...

The Australian National Basketball League (NBL) first tipped off in 1979 and by the early 1990s, basketball was Australia's fourth most popular spectator sport behind Australian football, rugby league and cricket. Yet the NBL was struggling soon thereafter and today it rarely rises above the...

The Australian Sports Commission requires good governance in allocating funds and has developed Principles of Good Governance for the guidance of sporting organisations. Despite the endorsement of most of the content of the Principles by the Independent Sport Panel in its 2009 Review, there are...

Sports civic organizations are essential for Hungarian society, especially for young people's lives, constituting a crucial part of the corpus of civil society organizations. The performance and output of these were rarely examined; still, activity forms of an organization and their managerial...

In June 2021, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court issued its eagerly anticipated decision in National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Alston, ruling for the first time that NCAA rules governing student-athlete eligibility are subject to full scrutiny under federal antitrust law. Although the...

A simple decision theoretic model shows the doping incentives for a member of a professional sports team. Depending on the detection probability and the punishment, a sportsman dopes not at all, at a medium or at the maximal level. The whole team has a higher incentive than an individual team...