Competition is the very essence of professional sports, yet how do we measure it? Has the level of competition changed over time? Can organizers influence the degree of competition, for example, by changing rewards? How does the audience appreciate competition? The Economics of Competitive...

Firing the manager is a drastic measure employed by firms to deal with poor performance. However, data on within-firm dynamics are scarce, and the firing of individual managers is rarely recorded in the firm level data currently available. This makes the value of firing a manager difficult to...

Frontmatter -- Inhalt / Contents -- Guest Editorial -- Abhandlungen / Original Papers -- One for Sure or Maybe Three / Franck, Egon / Theiler, Philipp -- Beating thy Neighbor: Derby Effects in German Professional Soccer / Bäker, Agnes / Mechtel, Mario / Vetter, Karin -- Empirical Evidence on...