One of Rottenberg's (1956, The baseball players' labor market. Journal of Political Economy, 64, 242-258) foundational sports economics hypotheses is that fans prefer their team to win but with more match outcome uncertainty (MOU) rather than less. The testable implication is that increase in...

Past work on principal-agent problems in sports does not effectively compare among players. The comparison must be made between players nearing contract negotiations and other players to detect ex ante strategic behavior (turning up performance just prior to contract negotiations) and ex post...

There is a growing literature investigating fan discrimination revealed in markets for sports memorabilia. Such estimates miss the mark for two reasons. First, simply measuring race as a binary variable may be less insightful than an alternative measure. Second, although it is the race...