The theory of competitive balance represents one of the core concepts of sports economics. Based upon an international research project analyzing the perception of competitive balance by consumers (Pawlowski 2013a, 2013b; Pawlowski & Budzinski 2013, 2014), we argue in this paper that behavioural...

Theoretische Grundlage der Dissertation bildet die Conservation of Resources Theorie nach Steven Hobfoll (1989). Im Vordergrund steht die Frage, inweiweit sich die von Hobfoll postulierte Gewinnspirale von Ressourcen empirisch nachweisen lässt und welche Mechanismen ihr zugrunde liegen. Zur...

A wealth of research in recent decades has seen the economic approach to human behavior extended over many areas previously considered to belong to sociology, political science, law, and other fields. Research has also shown that economics can illuminate many aspects of sports, including soccer....

In this paper, we show that the right to determine the sequence of moves in a dynamic team tournament improves the chances of winning the contest. Because studying dynamic team tournaments - like R&D races - with interim feedback is difficult with company data, we examine decisions of highly...