Financial regulation in sports is usually discussed in the context of representing an instrument against “financial …

Very little attention has been paid to the impact of sports participation on the labour market in the European academic … literature while it has received significant recognition in the United States. We consider sports practice as a way to improve or …

This microeconometric study analyzes the effects of individual leisure sports participation on long-term labour market … their own level of sports activities are tackled by combining informative data and flexible semiparametric estimation … methods with a specific way to use the panel dimension of the data. The paper shows that sports activities have sizeable …

In a complete information auction, two integrated broadcasters bid for exclusive TV-rights to a sports league (e.g. the … expenditures, possibly enhancing league quality and the resulting sports channel (e.g. Sky Sports); also the right’s winner either … never happens. Ofcom’s suggested wholesale regulation of Sky Sports typically reduces league rights income, quality and …

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 …