This paper examines the relation between crowd support and home advantage in professional football in making use of a … football divisions during the 2019/2020 season. We find that there is a reduced home advantage in the first division, whereas …

This paper provides an ex-post analysis of football matches’ contribution to the spread of COVID-19 during Germany … find indication for a reduced effect from football matches in the presence of the ’lockdown light’ which Germany launched …’s second infection wave in summer and autumn 2020. We find slightly positive effects from occurring professional football …

. According to a survey in Germany, the WTP increased with the success of the German national football team and respondents were …This study examines the value of sporting success of the 2014 Football World Cup in Brazil by using a method that … willing to pay €23.00 on average if Germany became the World Champion 2014. An extrapolation of the WTP of the respondents …

Germany (n=549), the WTP increased with the success of the German national football team and respondents were willing to pay …We examine the value of sporting success of the 2014 Football World Cup in Brazil by using a method that allows … €23.00 on average if Germany became the World Champion 2014. An extrapolation of the WTP of the respondents finds that the …

We analyze the natural experiment of ghost games in the 2019/2020 season of the German football Bundesliga and confirm …

Because of the COVID-19-pandemic the men's first German football league (Bundesliga) had to finish the season 2019 …

Because of the COVID-19-pandemic the men’s first German football league (Bundesliga) had to take a break before it was …

The 50plus1-rule in German football is a controversially discussed institution that regulates investment behavior of … professional football teams. This paper discusses from a sports economics perspective the suspected market failures that the 50plus … in the German Major League Football ("Erste Bundesliga") from the seasons 1989/90 until 2018/2019. Applying various …

Transfers are big business in association football. This paper develops a generalized additive mixed model that aids … managers in predicting how a football player is expected to perform in a new team. It does so by using event-level data from … the Spanish and the Colombian football leagues. Using passes as a performance proxy, the model exploits the richness of …