There is an ongoing debate on how Financial Fair Play (FFP) will affect European club football and whether it is really fair. So far regulations have been very different among national leagues. Therefore, FFP is expected to trigger some asymmetric adjustments among clubs and leagues thereby...

Der professionelle Fußball hat sich in den letzten Jahren zu einem wichtigen Wirtschaftszweig entwickelt. Das Gesamtvolumen des europäischen Fußballmarktes beläuft sich derzeit auf fast 15 Milliarden Euro. In der Fußball-Bundesliga stammt mehr als die Hälfte der Erlöse aus dem Verkauf von...

The labor market effects of the recent financial and economic crisis are rather heterogeneous across countries and regions. Such differences in labor market performance among industrialized countries are an issue of ongoing research. The objective of this paper is to analyse labor market...