There is a lively debate on whether football fans should pay an additional security fee, added to the price of tickets, to finance police activities on match days. This paper investigates the price effect on the demand for tickets in a dynamic setting, by considering two subgroups of spectators,...

In multi-stage tournaments, the anticipation of competition in future stages might affect the outcome of competition in the current stage. In particular, superstarsmight demotivate members of the group of next-best competitors from seeking to advance to later rounds, where they ultimately are...