Practices and conducts in professional and even amateur sports can be subject to competition laws as soon as commercial … competition policy interventions. Setting and enforcing the rules of the game is an activity with commercial effects because it … reviews selected landmark cases in sports competition policy from an economic perspective. This includes the U.S. baseball …

This paper provides an economic analysis of the competition effects of UEFA's financial fair play regulations. It … to European competition policy) because significant financial problems due to overinvestment are not inherent to European …

preventing open competition for championships formats and organization by objective and effect (section IV), and (iii) the …

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 Bosman ruling has spurred talent development foremost in EU nations lacking … established top clubs. This has a positive impact on their national teams' performance. However, the stiffer bidding competition …