empirically theories of incentives. In this paper the behaviour of the referees in the Italian soccer (football) league ("Serie A …

There are large differences in the remuneration of female and male professional football players. While the sports … media regularly report high earnings for male football players, the remuneration of female football players is quite seldom … an issue. Only a few female professional football players even at the highest rank can live from the remuneration for …

soccer, American football and tennis and also use our framework to compare the performance of empirically applied ranking …

In this paper we consider trends in the distribution of player talent across association football clubs over time …

antitrust exemption, access rules to Judo tournaments, sale systems of media rights in European football as well as a unique … some competitors in Formula One motor racing. Eventually, the areas of state aid to football clubs and mergers in Danish … football are sketched. …

We investigate to what extent crowd support contributes to the home advantage in soccer, disentangling this effect from …

We test the soccer myth suggesting that a particularly good moment to score a goal is just before half time. To this …

We investigate the role of fatigue in soccer (football). Although this issue is important for the "productivity" of … on all the matches played by national teams in all the tournaments of the FIFA Soccer World Cup (from 1930 to 2010) and … the UEFA European Football Championship (from 1960 to 2012). We relate team performance (in terms of points gained and …

We investigate whether the home advantage in soccer differs by various dimensions of distance between the (regions of …