The study of sport in the economy presents a rich arena for the application of sharply focused microeconomics, macroeconomics and econometrics to both team and individual outcomes. This unique book offers a survey of recent research that follows the tradition of empirical and theoretical...

Women’s sports have received much less attention from economists than from other social scientists. This Handbook fills that gap with a comprehensive economic analysis of women’s sports. It also analyzes how the behavior and treatment of female athletes reflect broad economic forces.

This article examines the efficiency of individual golfers in the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) according to their nationality when grouped into Asian, U.S., and other golfers. In particular, the comparison of golf ability with the efficiency in scoring and earning as a function of...

Attendance is determined by the ex ante expectation on the quality of a game, while television viewing is influenced by the actual progression of a game since switching television channel costs nil. This implies that the determinants of baseball demand on television may change as the games...

In this study, we comprehensively analyzed the attendance determinants of the Korean Professional Football League (K-League) using panel data from 15 individual teams during the 1987?2011 seasons. The K-League has some unique characteristics that other leagues, particularly those in North...

This paper proposes a tail-truncated stochastic frontier model that allows for the truncation of technical efficiency from below. The truncation bound implies the inefficiency threshold for survival and also can be used as a measure of market competition. Specifically, this paper assumes a...

This paper compares, by Monte Carlo simulations, the small sample properties of three different types (KGMHLBC, RSCFG and FE) of the stochastic frontier effect models which are designed for examining how observable firm characteristics influence on technical efficiency level. RSCFG has the...