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 …

When should a sports organiser be allowed to prohibit athletes or clubs from participating in a competitor’s event … can be used to understand exactly how exclusivity restrictions by sports organisers create collective value: (i) multi … how the ‘European sports model’ and its regulatory system can curtail the harm caused by natural dominance in sports, but …

Corruption in general and doping in particular are ubiquitous in both amateur and professional sports and have taken … principle of sports. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive literature overview of the individual’s incentive to dope, the … environment. We stress that in order to ensure clean sports and fair competition, more sophisticated measurement methods have to …

Corruption in general and doping in particular are ubiquitous in both amateur and professional sports and have taken … sports. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive literature overview of the individual drivers to dope, the concomitant … that in order to ensure clean sports and fair competition, more sophisticated measurement methods have to be evolved and …