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Promoting or restricting competition? - the 50plus1-rule in German football

Budzinski, Oliver; Kunz-Kaltenhäuser, Philipp - 2020

The 50plus1-rule in German football is a controversially discussed institution that regulates investment behavior of professional football teams. This paper discusses from a sports economics perspective the suspected market failures that the 50plus1-rule is expected to prevent. To examine the...

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Measuring competitive balance in Formula One Racing

Budzinski, Oliver; Feddersen, Arne - 2019

The Formula One Championship (F1) is one of the biggest sports businesses in the world. But, however, it seems to astonish that only very few scholarly articles analyze the F1 business. The aim of this study is to contribute to closing two gaps in the existing literature: it contributes (1) to...

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Mind the absent gap : gender-specific competitiveness in non-professional sports

Pikos, Anna Katharina; Straub, Alexander - 2019 - This version: March 26, 2019

economics and single-sex professional sports. We analyze these differences in a sport with direct gender competition. Our unique …

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Competitive balance and assortative matching in the German Bundesliga

Sittl, Roman; Warnke, Arne Jonas - 2016

In this paper we consider trends in the distribution of player talent across association football clubs over time. Player talent is the most important prerequisite for team success in professional sports leagues and changes in players' assortativeness in regard to the clubs they play for may...

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Mind the absent gap : gender-specific competitive behavior in nonprofessional sports

Pikos, Anna Katharina; Straub, Alexander - In: Journal of sports economics 21 (2020) 3, pp. 215-233

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Four cases in sports competition policy: baseball, judo, football, and motor racing

Budzinski, Oliver - 2017

Practices and conducts in professional and even amateur sports can be subject to competition laws as soon as commercial … competition policy interventions. Setting and enforcing the rules of the game is an activity with commercial effects because it … reviews selected landmark cases in sports competition policy from an economic perspective. This includes the U.S. baseball …

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