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Competitive balance and match attendance in European rugby union leagues
Hogan, Vincent; Massey, Patrick; Massey, Shane - 2012
The paper analyses the impact of the relatively belated move to professionalism in Rugby Union. We use data on match attendance for 3,667 fixtures in European club Rugby over 15 seasons to estimate the effect of competitive balance on attendance. We find that (short- and medium-term) competitive...
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Should Organizing Premier-Level European Football Be a Monopoly? And Who Should Run It? – An Economists’ Perspective
Budzinski, Oliver; Feddersen, Arne - 2022
, we discuss how much monopoly is unavoidable in premier-level European football and how its powers can be limited and …
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Transfer fee regulations in European football
Feess, Eberhard; Mühlheußer, Gerd - 2002
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Transfer fee regulations in European football
Feess, Eberhard; Mühlheußer, Gerd - 2002
incentives in European football. The different regimes, being used until 1995 ("Pre-Bosman" or P), currently in use ("Bosman" or …
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Transfer Fee Regulations and Player Development
Terviö, Marko - 2009
This paper studies the role of transfer fees in professional sports, where players can commit to binding long-term contracts. They cannot switch clubs before their contract expires unless the old club agrees to let them go; transfer fee is the price of that agreement. Transfer fees have been...
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Disagreement and market structure in betting markets : theory and evidence from European soccer
Hegarty, Tadgh; Whelan, Karl - 2023
Online sports betting is growing rapidly around the world. We describe how the competitive structure of the bookmaking market affects odds when bettors disagree about the probabilities of the outcomes of sporting events but are on average correct. We show that the demand for bets on longshots is...
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Should organizing premier-level European football be a monopoly? : and who should run it? - an economists' perspective
Budzinski, Oliver; Feddersen, Arne - 2022
, we discuss how much monopoly is unavoidable in premier-level European football and how its powers can be limited and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013367751
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Migrating Football Players, Transfer Fees and Migration Controls
Verbon, Harrie A. A. - 2021
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 …
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Dealing with randomness in match outcomes: how to rethink performance evaluation and decision-making in European club football
Brechot, Marc; Flepp, Raphael - 2018
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 …
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Contest Incentives, Effort Levels and Betting Markets in European Football
Feddersen, Arne - 2016
effort supply. Empirical analysis of more than 40,000 regular season football matches in 10 top domestic European leagues …
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