This book is a collection of five papers by European and North-American sport economists. The themes developed in this volume include the rational for building new sport facilities, the deciding factors for the length of players' careers, the relationship between a country's economic performance...

The coincidence of banking and currency crises associated with the Asian financial crisis has drawn renewed attention to causal and common factors linking the two phenomena. In this paper, we analyze the incidence and underlying causes of banking and currency crises in 90 industrial and...