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The NCAA athletics arms race: theory and evidence
Hoffer, Adam; Humphreys, Brad R.; Lacombe, Donald J.; … - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010410829
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Is Self-Sufficiency for Womens Collegiate Athletics a Hoop Dream?: Willingness to Pay for Mens and Womens Basketball Tickets
Rosas, Juan; Orazem, Peter - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2011
Universities spend almost $2 billion subsidizing their collegiate sports programs.  Even the most popular women’s sport, basketball, fails to break even. An application of Becker’s theory of customer discrimination is used to calculate the relative preference for men’s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024141
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Neither Reasonable nor Necessary: “Amateurism” in Big-Time College Sports
Daniel, Rascher; Andrew, Schwarz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
The NCAA and its member schools are a joint venture that fixes the compensation of its most important workers, the … those athletes. From the point of view of rule of reason antitrust analysis, the NCAA’s justification for its concerted wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685572
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The Demand for Student-Athlete Labor and the Supply of Violations in the NCAA
Harris, Jill - International Association of Sport Economists - IASE; … - 2011
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) acts as a cartel with monopsony power in the market for student … reciprocal demand translates into a supply of violations (or cheating) on the NCAA cartel agreement. A theoretical foundation for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010611191
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Anomalies in Tournament Design: The Madness of March Madness
Baumann, Robert; Matheson, Victor; Howe, Cara - International Association of Sport Economists - IASE; … - 2009
anomalies that could affect incentives. Our analysis of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament uncovers such an anomaly. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008631533
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Agency Behavior in a Nonprofit Setting: Effects of the 1984 Supreme Court NCAA Decision
Carroll, Kathleen A.; Humphreys, Brad R. - Economics Department, University of Maryland-Baltimore … - 2003
The NCAA is commonly viewed as a cartel. We model the cartel relationship between the member teams and the NCAA central … organization as a principal-agent relationship. Our model predicts imperfect agency behavior on the part of the NCAA with … impact of the 1984 Supreme Court decision that reassigned the telecast rights for intercollegiate football from the NCAA to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005760668
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Anomalies in Tournament Design: The Madness of March Madness
Baumann, Robert; Matheson, Victor; Howe, Cara - Department of Economics and Accounting, College of the … - 2009
anomalies that could affect incentives. Our analysis of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament uncovers such an anomaly. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560001
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The College Football Association Television Broadcase Cartel
Siegfried, John J.; Burba, Molly Gardner - Vanderbilt University Department of Economics - 2003
dominated certain geographic areas, so that they retained much of the monopoly power of the single NCAA cartel that they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005595919
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Spillovers from the Gridiron: Evidence from Women’s Collegiate Basketball
Depken, Craig A. Depken, II; Williams, Courtney - International Association of Sport Economists - IASE; … - 2009
This paper empirically investigates whether schools with an intercollegiate football team experience greater attendance at women’s basketball games. The empirical question is important because if football increases attendance and hence revenue to other sports then these benefits should be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005731658
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Legal Restrictions on Buyout Fees: Theory and Evidence from German Soccer
Feess, Eberhard; Frick, Bernd; Muehlheusser, Gerd - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
We perform a theoretical and empirical analysis of the impact of transfer fee regulations on professional soccer in Europe. Based on a model on the interaction of moral hazard and heterogeneity, we show (i) how the regulations effect contract durations and wages, (ii) that contracting parties...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822051