soccer, American football and tennis and also use our framework to compare the performance of empirically applied ranking …

incentives in European football. The different regimes, being used until 1995 ("Pre-Bosman" or P), currently in use ("Bosman" or … welfare. Regime M leads to higher effort but lower incentives to invest in training compared to system B. …

Since the famous Bosman ruling by the European Court of Justice in 1995 transfer fees for football players after moving … unrestricted market free migration from football players will be Pareto efficient under special circumstances only. This paper … shows that transfer fees can correct inefficient migration flows from small to large football leagues. Home-grown rules that …

Football is a low-scoring sport in which a few single moments can change the result of an entire match, regardless of … outcomes. However, decision makers in European football clubs often rely heavily on recent match outcomes when evaluating team … football clubs about sensitive situations and should prevent clubs from making flawed decisions when match outcomes are overly …

We analyze the effects of football player migration to foreign leagues on the performance of their home country … national teams. We provide a theoretical model predicting a positive effect of migration on international football performance … cross country data on international football performance. In order to accurately measure the effect of skill acquisitions by …