The Japanese Professional Football League (J-league) was established in 1993. Based on individual level data, this study investigated how emergence of the league affected Japanese people playing football using the differences-in-differences method. The following main findings were obtained. (1)...

Este trabajo estudia distintos tipos de antecedentes del destino como el compromiso del turista en relación con el lugar, la confianza y satisfacción, señales como la reputación, la relación calidad-precio y la publicidad y el efecto boca-oreja para explicar las intenciones de repetir y la...

Tournaments are designed to enhance participants' effort and productivity. However, ranking near the top may increase psychological pressure and reduce performance. We empirically study the impact of interim rank on performance using data from international diving tournaments. We find that...

The UEFA approved the Club Licensing and Financial Fair Play Regulation in 2010, which governs the requirements on transparency and financial conditions of football clubs participating at the European cups. The paper focuses on the specifics of Czech professional football clubs. The research is...

This paper analyses the pay-per-bid auctions which have appeared recently on the Internet and scored an immediate business success. In these auctions bidders pay a small, but irrevocable fee each time they want to increase the price. In this paper we test the model suggested by Platt, Price and...

The management in sport has a very important role today considering that sport is a source of income and stimulates the industry and the economical development. The level of sport today requires some programmers of management of sport which surfaced recently in the international management and...

It is an exercise that every professional can use to see what the value of the manager is, "whether or not you're a manager," and the professional football coach without borders, boundaries of countries or cultures-in which we were born and professional culture in which we live and we want to...

This paper deals with the illustration of the methodology developed within Istat National Accounts Directorate in order to assess the production account of tourism industries and other industries, and it is part of a wider process of implementation for the first Italian Tourism Satellite Account...

Tourism, as well as politics and economy in general, will have to face the globalization trend (i.e. power on the rise of international economic forces, as well as long lasting decline of the Member States' ability to control economy in contrast to private corporations' ability to dominate...

This research is designed to help government and tourism policy-makers evaluate the efficiency and consequences of the Greek taxation system on maritime tourism. The tax revenues generated by the taxes and dues imposed by the state are measured using the Tourism Satellite Account (TSA). Tax...