Beginning with the seminal work in the field now known as sports economics (Rottenberg, 1956), concern over competitive … balance has been a recurring theme. While the vast majority of the focus has been on popular professional team sports, a few … studies have analyzed competitive balance in the individual sports of professional tennis (del Corral, 2009) and NASCAR (von …

enter and win international competitions, although richer nations retain advantages. All in all, globalisation of sports is … nicht um ein Nullsummenspiel, sondern überwiegen die Vorteile der Globalisierung des Sports. …

This paper investigates to which extent tough competition impacts on the macroeconomic performance of countries. The … competition to macroeconomic performance. We then added these competition indicators to an equation relating macro performance to … relation between competition and innovation has been investigated intensely in industrial economics. It started with Schumpeter …

Between sports and happiness. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio- Economic Panel (GSOEP), we find a positive … correlation between sports participation and reported life satisfaction. This relationship is stronger at younger and older ages … causal directions. It turns out that the causal impact of engaging in sports on happiness is about four times higher than the …