Economists use three types of models to describe volunteer labour supply: the publicgoods model, the private-consumption model, and the human-capital model. We used data from an online survey questionnaire of volunteers working for the German Red Cross to study the extent to which each type...

We used boosted regression trees to study the interplay between match quality and Internet use of volunteers. In our use of the term, match quality reflects the congruence of volunteers' motives for doing volunteer work and their utility experiences. Using data from an online survey...

Using data for a large sample of German football referees, we studied the motives for becoming a football referee. Based on a long modeling tradition in the literature on the economics of volunteering, we studied altruistic motives (public-goods model) versus non-altruistic (egoistic...

In dem Beitrag wird das Konsumverhalten von Fußballstadionbesuchern empirisch untersucht. Dabei gehen wir den Fragestellungen nach, (1) welcher Nutzen aus dem passiven Fußballkonsum im Stadion erwächst, (2) unter welchen Bedingungen dieser Konsum als "Sucht" werden kann und (3) inwieweit...

Against the background that the number of referees has been falling in recent years, the German Football Association (DFB) needs to answer two key questions: (i) Why do referees end their careers, and, (ii) which factors determine the duration of referee careers? We studied these questions using...

In analysis of Austrian elite sport, a distinction can be made between hierarchical and market organization. Following Williamson, the question of a superiority of governance form caused by the factor specificity of investments is being investi-gated. The results from an applied logit-loglinear...

Volunteering can be interpreted as a process of search that matches volunteer labor supply with demand for volunteer work by voluntary organizations like sports clubs. Using novel data from an online questionnaire study of German sports club members, we constructed a match quality index (MQI)...

Apart from a broad consensus statement stressing the essential role of practice for achieving success in international senior-level competitions, the nature and scope of developmental participation leading to that extraordinary success in sports have been controversially discussed in...