Tournament competitiveness and predictability of outcomes are inversely related. We introduce a new measure of competitiveness or predictability using discrepancies between tennis players' seed values and attained ranks in all rounds of the four Grand Slam Tennis Tournaments (GST). Using data...

Given the recent importance that sport organizations, academics, and the public have placed on environmental sustainability this article introduces the study of ecological economics — founded upon Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen's application of thermodynamics to economics — to legal perspectives...

Financial regulation in sports is usually discussed in the context of representing an instrument against “financial doping”. Notwithstanding the merits of this discussion, this paper takes the opposite perspective and analyses how market-internal financial regulation itself may...

Covid-19 pandemic has had immensely adverse implications on Bali’s hospitality and tourism industry. This paper investigates and summarizes findings from select articles and publications on studies, reports, and outlooks regarding the implications of pandemic on the hospitality and tourism...

Technology, particularly the combination of the internet and smartphones has changed just about every aspect of our lives, including the way virtual banks deliver new consumer choices. While the diverse background of virtual banking licensees has the potential to facilitate financial innovation...

We examine the impact of new sports facilities on new businesses, an unexplored topic in the literature. We use data from the Dunn and Bradstreet MarketPlace files to examine how new sports facilities affect nearby business activity in terms of the number of new businesses and workers. We find...

I respond to Bradbury’s reply to my original June 2022 report to the Braves on Truist Park and The Battery. While I acknowledge that several observations by Bradbury are reasonable and may result in modest downward adjustments in some of my net present value estimates, I argue and illustrate...

In recent years, most mobile apps have started tracking consumers' location and movement patterns. This type of tracking can allow firms that access these data to better predict consumers' future behaviors and to send targeted communications. However, such tracking also raises privacy concerns...

In this paper, the main objective is to examine whether CEO characteristics have an impact on firm performance. Does CEO’s age, gender, compensation, or ownership influence return on investment? The data consists of 19868 observations that only include firms on the S&P 500 between the period...

In this online appendix, we present the regression results containing all of the events included in our analysis. The tables in the main paper are subsets of the tables reported in this appendix. In each table, the first column reports the results for the subsample of hotels located in...