Inhall -- Unternehmenstheorie und Sportökonomie -- Theoretische Elemente einer ökonomischen Betrachtung von Sportdienstleistungen -- „Making the majors” — Grundlegende institutionelle Innovationen in der Entwicklung des amerikanischen Teamsports und ihre ökonomische Logik -- Mitsprache...

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant disruption in the sports industry and has raised the question of whether the football industry is based on a sustainable business model. Using data from the English Premier League (EPL), we develop an empirical model to achieve two objectives: First,...

Emphasizing the existence of information asymmetries between, e.g., young academics and potential employers, signaling theory has shaped our understanding of how high-ability students try to document their superior skills in a competitive environment such as the labor market: high-ability...

Sports fans all over the world have recently witnessed an increasing number of spectacular doping cases, leading to considerable annoyance in the public. However, our knowledge regarding the prevalence of doping is still quite limited, leading some people to speculate that (nearly) all...

This paper tests for the existence and consequences of customer-based racial discrimination in Europe’s five largest professional soccer leagues. Most of the previous studies focusing on European sports, as opposed to North American sports, either used wage models to identify discrimination of...