The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, it complements the many wage discrimination studies by examining exit discrimination in the NBA using a decade's worth of data (the 1980's). White players have a 36 percent lower risk of being cut than black players, ceteris paribus, translating...

This paper considers a multi-firm analysis of a cartel. It examines the individual owner's choice of labor, the primary factor of production, and the cartel's choice of revenue sharing and salary cap policies in both a profit maximizing model and a utility maximizing model. The effect of...

Simulations have long been used in business schools to give students experience making real-world decisions in a relatively low risk environment. The OAKLAND A’S BASEBALL BUSINESS SIMULATOR takes a traditional business simulation and applies it to the sport industry, in which sales of tangible...

A primary objective of sport marketers in the professional sport setting is to develop strategies to increase game attendance. Historically, one of the strategies to accomplish this goal has been the utilization of special promotions. This paper studied the impact of promotions on attendance at...

An examination of possible expansion or relocation sites for the NBA is undertaken using a two-equation system requiring two-stage probit least squares to estimate. The location model forecasts the best cities for an NBA team based on the underlying characteristics of current NBA teams. The...

The opening of the Palace of Auburn Hills, the SkyDome, and Oriole Park at Camden Yards led to the beginning of a construction boom in professional sport. In the National Football League (NFL) alone, 26 stadiums have been built or renovated in the past 10 years. Due to the additional revenue...

Major League Soccer (MLS) began with ten teams in 1996, and plans to expand to twenty teams. Where should those teams be located? A probit analysis is used to create a forecast of likely successful locations for MLS teams. The results indicate that the ten current MLS franchises are located in...

During the past decade there has been a proliferation of sports stadia being built in America's municipal districts. While it used to be common for the public to fully fund stadium construction projects, over the past twenty years factors such as political motives, tax reform and increased...

Sport teams have historically been reluctant to change ticket prices during the season. Recently, however, numerous sport organizations have implemented variable ticket pricing in an effort to maximize revenues. In Major League Baseball, variable pricing results in ticket price increases or...

Unlike most businesses or cartels, firms in a sports league need viable competitors. While a certain amount of domination is optimal, from an individual owner's perspective, too much will result in league dissolution, and thus a lower utility for every owner. Hence, there is a limited positive...