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This paper assesses the role of distance in professional team sports, taking the example of football (soccer). We argue …
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In this paper, we discuss from an economic perspective two alternative views of restrictions of competition by sports … associations. The horizontal approach views such restrictions as an agreement among the participants of a sports league with the … sports association merely representing an organization executing the horizontal cooperation. In contrast, the vertical …
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Clock rule changes were introduced in the 2006 season with the goal of reducing the average duration of the game; these changes were reversed in 2007. In addition, in 2007 the kickoff rule was changed to create more excitement and potentially more scoring. We examine what happened to actual and...
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We test the soccer myth suggesting that a particularly good moment to score a goal is just before half time. To this end, rich data on 1,179 games played in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League are analysed. In contrast to the myth, we find that, conditional on the goal difference...
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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 f empirical research have not been successful in establishing clear evidence for the...
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(possibly together with the sports association) violates European competition law in two ways. First, it allegedly abuses its … and enforcing a heavily biased horizontal allocation of media revenues, benefitting the cartel teams. Professional sports … sports authority and the participants, and (ii) horizontal allocation among the participants. Different professional sports …
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The study sought to assess the impact of sports betting on the investment behaviour of Ghanaians, focusing on sports … individuals perceive the risk of sports lotteries as opposed to investment, to determine if sports lottery was viewed as an … alternative to investments and savings, and to understand how participation in sports lotteries affects individuals' ability to …
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This study explores the potential to use FIFA and men's World Cup football to advance LGBT rights. Transnational sporting organizations such as the IOC and FIFA operate largely behind closed doors. In secret agreements, the organizations leverage world audience to bend national governments to...
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sports gambling for the first time in more than 25 years. The advent of legalized gambling has sports leagues clamoring for … compensation from states that authorize wagers on the particular leagues' games. Legal sports gambling promises to be one of the … operators lining up, and sports leagues abandoning policy positions they have maintained for the better part of the last century …
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One of the potential avenues for former professional football players to pursue their career is to become a head coach of a club's first team. An important question is how to best prepare for such a reconversion. This letter is the first in the academic literature quantifying the association...
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