We analyze how the Bosman ruling affected the market for star players and talent development in the European football … market. We develop a model with sports competition and endogenous ownership of star players in which we show how the stiffer … bidding competition over star players after the Bosman ruling has spurred talent development foremost in EU nations lacking …

the ERC has been replaced by a new competition which may be more unbalanced due to differences in the distribution of …

could change as the Anglo-French teams' share of European competition revenues is set to increase from 2014/15 while …

in European professional football. In order to find possible reasons for the gap between the UOH and (the lack of) its … three European professional football leagues. The results indicate that a tipping point/threshold value of CB exists and …

preventing open competition for championships formats and organization by objective and effect (section IV), and (iii) the …

In this paper we consider trends in the distribution of player talent across association football clubs over time …

This paper provides an empirical investigation of severe misconducts in contests based on data from European football … more likely in the case of an unfavourable score. We introduce a new perspective to the study of football data by …

Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulation that was enacted in European football in 2013. The regulation imposed on clubs …

Practices and conducts in professional and even amateur sports can be subject to competition laws as soon as commercial … competition policy interventions. Setting and enforcing the rules of the game is an activity with commercial effects because it … reviews selected landmark cases in sports competition policy from an economic perspective. This includes the U.S. baseball …