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Prohibitive Failure : The Demise of the Ban on Sports Betting
Holden, John T. - 2019
of topics, ranging from state legalization of marijuana to so-called sanctuary cities. This paper explores the origins of …
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Competitive balance and match attendance in European rugby union leagues
Hogan, Vincent; Massey, Patrick; Massey, Shane - 2012
The paper analyses the impact of the relatively belated move to professionalism in Rugby Union. We use data on match attendance for 3,667 fixtures in European club Rugby over 15 seasons to estimate the effect of competitive balance on attendance. We find that (short- and medium-term) competitive...
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The emergence of a market for football stars : talent development and competitive balance in European football
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Olsson, Martin; Persson, Lars - 2016
We analyze how the Bosman ruling affected the market for star players and talent development in the European football market. We develop a model with sports competition and endogenous ownership of star players in which we show how the stiffer bidding competition over star players after the...
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Analysing match attendance in the European Rugby Cup
Hogan, Vincent; Massey, Patrick; Massey, Shane - 2014
Using data from 1,226 matches played over 18 seasons, we analyse match attendances in the group stages of the European Rugby Cup (ERC). We find that short-run (match) uncertainty had little effect on attendances. This finding is significant as the ERC has been replaced by a new competition which...
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Competitive balance : results of two natural experiments from Rugby Union ; [paper presented to the 6th Annual Conference of the European Sports Economics Association, University o...
Hogan, Vincent; Massey, Patrick; Massey, Shane - 2014
The paper presents results from two natural experiments on the impact of revenue sharing and salary caps on competitive balance in sports leagues arising from the introduction of professionalism in Rugby Union in 1995. The first involves the English Premiership, which traditionally applied a...
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The (Monetary) Value of Competitive Balance for Sport Consumers : A Stated Preferences Approach to European Professional Football
Pawlowski, Tim - 2012
Ever since the pioneering work of Rottenberg (1956) and Neale (1964), the uncertainty of outcome hypothesis (UOH) has played a major role in the economic analysis of professional sport leagues. However, decades of empirical research have not been successful in establishing clear evidence for the...
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Consumer protection as a factor of destination competitiveness in the European Union
Petrović, Jelena; Milicevic, Snežana - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 19 (2017) 45, pp. 432-446
competitiveness by research ers. This research article investigates the impact of cons umer protection on destination competitiveness … indicators mentioned in this way affect the destination competitiveness . At the same time, the results of the analysis indicate … commercial practices also record the highest competitiveness as a tourism destination. …
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Four cases in sports competition policy: baseball, judo, football, and motor racing
Budzinski, Oliver - 2017
influences attractiveness and marketability of the sports in question. After discussing fundamental issues, this contributions …
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Sports League Quality, Broadcaster TV Rights Bids and Wholesale Regulation of Sports Channels
Madden, Paul; Pezzino, Mario - 2013
In a complete information auction, two integrated broadcasters bid for exclusive TV-rights to a sports league (e.g. the English Premier League), with two potential externalities: receipts feed through to the two league clubs who choose player expenditures, possibly enhancing league quality and...
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Talent Concentration and Competitive Imbalance in European Soccer
Frick, Bernd; Quansah, Tommy Kweku; Lang, Markus - 2022
While most of the available literature on competitive balance analyzes its impact on ticket sales and TV audiences, little empirical research is available that analyzes the observable variation in competitive balance across leagues and over time. This paper studies the concentration of player...
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