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 Bosman ruling has spurred talent development foremost in EU nations lacking …