We analyse winning strategies in the Australian Women's Big Bash Cricket League (WBBL). Our objective is two- fold. First such analysis has potential implications for fan interest, team selection and recruitment. While several studies have analysed winning strategies in men's cricket we are...

The design of sports leagues has significant financial implications for the organisers and member teams and for the relative success or failure of the individual clubs. Using the Pro 14 rugby league as an example we show how the structure of the league has influenced the success of the league...

Paris Saint-Germain, one of France's top soccer clubs, was bought by Qatar Sports Investments (QSI) in 2011. Since then the club's expenditure has risen precipitously as have its victories. In this paper we ask whether this represents value for money. We find in fact, that the efficiency of PSG...

The design of sports leagues has significant financial implications for the organisers and member teams and for the relative success or failure of the individual clubs. Using the Pro 14 rugby league as an example we show how the structure of the league has influenced the success of the league...

Paris Saint-Germain, one of France's top soccer clubs, was bought by Qatar Sports Investments (QSI) in 2011. Since then the club's expenditure has risen precipitously as have its victories. In this paper we ask whether this represents value for money. We find in fact, that the efficiency of PSG...

We analyse winning strategies in the Australian Women's Big Bash Cricket League (WBBL). Our objective is two- fold. First such analysis has potential implications for fan interest, team selection and recruitment. While several studies have analysed winning strategies in men's cricket we are...

The Authority for Consumers & Markets has conducted a study into the potential effects of standard products on competition in the financial sector. The analysis shows that it is not likely that standard products will increase competition in financial markets. There is a risk that providers...

The paper examines efficiency and productivity of US property-liability (P-L) insurers using data envelopment analysis (DEA). We estimate pure technical, scale, cost, revenue and profit efficiency over the period 1993-2011. Insurers' adjacent year total factor productivity changes and their...

India's life insurance sector is the biggest in the world with about 360 million policies and the total market size of insurance projects is projected to touch US$ 350-400 billion by 2020 from US$ 60 billion in 2015. Even with such a huge opportunity in the marketplace, insurance companies have...

We compare a variety of retirement products under cumulative prospect theory (CPT), including both well-known (variable) annuity products and some innovative, tontine-like retirement products, in which longevity risks are shared between insurers and policyholders. Following Hu and Scott (2007),...