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A tale of two audiences: spectators, television viewers and outcome uncertainty in Spanish football 0 0 0 31 0 0 12 144
An analysis of consumer response to corruption 1 1 2 53 1 1 22 175
Assessing the Role of Fatigue and Task Switching on Worker Performance. Evidence from MLB Pitchers 0 1 1 28 4 6 12 117
Bad for business? 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 26
Broadcaster and Audience Demand for Premier League Football 1 1 3 135 1 1 7 346
Determinants of UK box office success: the impact of quality signals 0 0 0 31 1 1 10 96
Do Salaries Improve Worker Performance? 0 0 0 92 0 1 11 369
Do Salaries Improve Worker Performance? 0 0 0 18 0 1 13 108
Does Worksharing Work? Some Empirical Evidence from the IAB Panel 0 0 0 34 0 0 8 156
Does it pay to specialize? The story from the Gridiron 0 0 0 8 1 1 8 59
Does market size matter for team success in sports? 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 240
Freedom of entry, market size and competitive outcome: evidence from English soccer 0 0 1 45 0 0 13 142
IMPACTS OF THE GREAT RECESSION ON SPORT: EVIDENCE FROM ENGLISH FOOTBALL LEAGUE ATTENDANCE DEMAND 0 0 1 40 2 4 27 171
Impact of Managerial Quality on Organizational Performance. Evidence from German Soccer 0 0 0 5 1 1 11 38
Market size and attendance in English Premier League football 1 1 6 280 1 2 33 1,036
Mixing the princes and the paupers: Pay and performance in the National Basketball Association 0 0 1 15 0 1 13 133
Outcome uncertainty and the couch potato audience 0 0 1 54 0 0 10 210
Outcome uncertainty and the demand for women’s football 0 1 19 19 2 3 39 39
Race and Coaching Hierarchy 0 0 1 17 0 1 9 76
Race and Coaching Hierarchy: Promotions and Firings of NFL Coaches 0 0 10 15 1 8 48 54
Race and evaluation of signal callers in the National Football League 0 0 0 0 1 1 11 129
Race and the Evaluation of Signal Callers in the National Football League 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 196
Race and the evaluation of signal callers in the national football league 0 0 1 39 0 0 8 170
Rank-Order Tournaments, Probability of Winning and Investing in Talent: Evidence from Champions League Qualifying Rules 0 0 0 42 0 0 8 123
Restaurant wars 0 0 1 64 1 1 7 217
Robust Estimates of the Impacts of Broadcasting on Match Attendance in Football 0 0 0 0 2 3 16 160
Robust estimates of the impact of broadcasting on match attendance in football 0 2 2 52 0 2 20 290
Special Ones? The Effect of Head Coaches on Football Team Performance 0 0 0 24 1 3 23 62
Special Ones? The Effect of Head Coaches on Football Team Performance 0 0 0 16 0 4 34 88
The Abortion-Crime Link: Evidence from England and Wales 0 0 1 181 0 1 23 960
The Effect of Incentives on Sabotage: The Case of Spanish Football 0 0 0 0 1 1 17 222
The Effects of Coworker Heterogeneity on Firm-Level Output: Assessing the Impacts of Cultural and Language Diversity in the National Hockey League 0 1 1 43 0 1 15 221
The Impact of Managerial Quality on Organizational Performance: Evidence from German Soccer 0 1 2 390 1 5 26 1,543
The Returns to Scarce Talent: Footedness and Player Remuneration in European Soccer 1 1 1 133 21 24 44 659
The Twelfth Man? Refereeing Bias in English and German Soccer 0 0 1 334 0 5 21 1,077
The allocation of rewards in athletic contests 0 0 0 28 3 3 10 96
The relationship between betting and lottery play: a high frequency time-series analysis 0 0 0 15 0 0 11 147
Time To Go? Head Coach Quits and Dismissals in Professional Football 0 0 0 55 1 1 7 60
Time To Go? Head Coach Quits and Dismissals in Professional Football 0 0 0 49 1 2 10 69
Time To Go? Head Coach Quits and Dismissals in Professional Football 0 0 1 21 0 0 6 96
What does it mean to find the Face of the Franchise? Physical Attractiveness and the Evaluation of Athletic Performance 0 0 0 31 0 0 4 162
Why Are Migrants Paid More? 0 0 0 46 0 1 20 157
Total Working Papers 4 10 57 2,483 49 91 671 10,639


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Spatial Cross–Sectional Analysis of Elasticity of Demand for Soccer 0 0 4 18 0 2 17 64
Advertising media strategies in the film industry 2 2 6 67 3 4 16 233
An Analysis of Consumer Response to Corruption: Italy's Calciopoli Scandal 0 0 1 22 0 1 13 107
Are workers rewarded for inconsistent performance? 0 0 0 6 0 1 13 43
Bad for Business? The Effects of Hooliganism on English Professional Football Clubs 0 1 5 180 1 3 33 829
Book Review: Késenne, S. (2007). The Economic Theory of Professional Team Sports: An Analytical Treatment. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar 0 0 0 2 0 1 5 11
Book Review: Winners and Losers: The Business Strategy of Football 0 0 2 5 0 2 10 19
Broadcasting, Attendance and the Inefficiency of Cartels 0 0 2 350 0 2 23 757
Buying a Dream: Alternative Models of Demand for Lotto 0 0 0 0 1 3 24 604
COVID-19 infections and short-run worker performance: Evidence from European football 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 12
Catching a draft: on the process of selecting quarterbacks in the National Football League amateur draft 0 0 5 159 0 1 27 397
Competitive Balance and Attendance in Major League Baseball: An Empirical Test of the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis 0 0 0 108 1 2 9 398
Contracts, pay and performance in the sport of kings: Evidence from horse racing 0 0 1 3 0 2 12 23
DOES WORKSHARING WORK? SOME EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM THE IAB‐ESTABLISHMENT PANEL 0 0 0 47 0 0 13 200
Determinants of UK Box Office Success: The Impact of Quality Signals 0 0 0 70 1 1 9 309
Editors' Introduction 0 0 0 8 1 1 7 110
Editors’ Introduction 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 8
Editors’ Introduction 0 0 0 2 0 0 5 27
Elasticity of Demand for UK National Lottery Tickets 0 1 1 20 0 2 16 86
English Football 1 2 12 243 3 9 64 696
FAVORITISM AND REFEREE BIAS IN EUROPEAN SOCCER: EVIDENCE FROM THE SPANISH LEAGUE AND THE UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 0 0 1 58 0 6 39 273
Factors determining UK album success 0 0 0 26 0 0 10 102
Forecasting sport: the behaviour and performance of football tipsters 0 1 4 276 1 5 26 699
Freedom of Entry, Market Size, and Competitive Outcome: Evidence from English Soccer 0 0 1 4 1 3 27 37
Friday May Never be the Same Again: Some Results on Work Sharing from Union–Firm Bargaining Models 0 0 0 41 0 0 9 202
Gains from Specialization and Free Agency: The Story from the Gridiron 0 0 0 37 0 0 5 161
Gate-Sharing and Talent Distribution in the English Football League 0 0 0 9 0 1 6 92
Guest Editorial 0 0 0 0 0 3 9 9
Human resource management practices and workers' job satisfaction 0 0 7 448 0 2 33 1,889
Impacts of the Great Recession on sport: evidence from English Football League attendance demand 0 0 1 5 3 3 20 41
Insights for clubs from modelling match attendance in football 0 0 1 24 1 2 18 69
Introduction 0 0 0 5 0 1 1 34
Is there a nationality wage premium in European football? 0 1 1 1 0 1 2 2
New Issues in Attendance Demand 0 1 4 39 0 5 22 139
OUTCOME UNCERTAINTY AND THE COUCH POTATO AUDIENCE 0 0 2 146 4 11 24 437
Odds-setters as forecasters: The case of English football 0 6 12 630 4 29 61 1,300
On the Positive Expected Utility of Combination Wagers 0 0 1 10 0 0 7 39
Professional Labor Markets in the Journal of Sports Economics 0 1 8 23 0 3 35 77
Race and the Evaluation of Signal Callers in the National Football League 0 0 2 9 0 5 24 81
Rank-Order Tournaments, Probability of Winning and Investing in Talent: Evidence from Champions' League Qualifying Rules 0 0 1 3 1 2 11 132
Sentiment in the betting market on Spanish football 0 2 10 192 7 12 42 553
Special ones? The effect of head coaches on football team performance 0 1 3 6 0 6 27 35
Sports Economics: It May be Fun but What's the Point? 0 0 0 16 1 2 7 66
Substitution between games in the UK national lottery 0 0 0 63 1 3 15 362
Substitution between leisure activities: a quasi-natural experiment using sports viewing and cinema attendance 0 0 4 26 1 1 28 105
Superstar Effects in Sport 3 8 36 327 4 14 87 902
Systematic Positive Expected Returns in the UK Fixed Odds Betting Market: An Analysis of the Fink Tank Predictions 0 0 0 29 0 1 18 278
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BETTING AND LOTTERY PLAY 0 0 1 27 1 1 15 147
Testing for rational expectations in the UK National Lottery 0 0 3 57 1 2 12 179
The 12th man?: refereeing bias in English and German soccer 0 0 1 56 2 18 46 268
The Abortion–Crime Link: Evidence from England and Wales 0 0 0 72 1 2 29 406
The Economics of Long-term Contracts in the Footballers' Labour Market 0 1 4 72 0 16 40 213
The Effect of Incentives on Sabotage: The Case of Spanish Football 0 0 0 47 1 1 11 189
The Effects of Coworker Heterogeneity on Firm-Level Output: Assessing the Impacts of Cultural and Language Diversity in the National Hockey League 0 0 1 107 2 4 12 405
The Financial Crisis in European Football 0 1 11 37 1 4 31 89
The Hidden Costs of High-Performance Work Practices: Evidence from a Large German Steel Company 0 0 0 5 0 1 21 86
The Labour Market in Association Football: Who Gets Transferred and For How Much? 0 0 0 0 1 9 52 1,096
The Migrant Wage Premium in Professional Football: A Superstar Effect? 0 0 1 41 0 1 19 150
The Returns to Scarce Talent 0 0 2 29 0 3 17 155
The Union Response to the Poll Tax 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 107
The determinants of Black quarterback pay in the National Football League 0 0 1 3 1 2 18 24
The economics of sports betting; Placido Rodrigues 0 0 0 5 0 1 11 34
The effect of task switching on productivity: evidence from major league baseball pitchers 0 0 0 0 0 1 18 22
The impact of exogenous shocks on exits from the Catholic and Protestant churches in Germany, 1953–2015 0 0 0 10 1 4 4 41
The impact of managerial quality on organizational performance: evidence from German soccer 0 1 2 82 1 2 15 257
Time To Go? Head Coach Quits and Dismissals in Professional Football 0 0 1 6 0 0 10 37
Timing matters: worker absenteeism in a weekly backward rotating shift model 0 0 0 4 1 2 6 39
Uncertainty of Outcome or Star Quality? Television Audience Demand for English Premier League Football 0 1 6 47 4 6 28 153
Where to Go Next? Examining the Effect of Franchise Expansion and Location on Game-Level Attendance in Major League Soccer 0 0 3 7 0 2 18 47
Total Journal Articles 6 31 175 4,478 58 240 1,372 17,193


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Broadcasting, Attendance and the Inefficiency of Cartels 0 0 1 1 0 1 15 24
Does live broadcasting displace gate attendances? Evidence from the English Football League 0 0 10 68 4 6 51 184
Economics of gambling 0 0 0 12 0 0 5 46
English Football 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 37
Gambling and the NFL 0 0 0 1 0 0 9 31
Impacts of co-worker heterogeneity on team performance 0 0 3 22 1 1 8 40
Investigating the “hot hand” hypothesis: an application to European football 0 0 1 2 0 1 6 26
New empirical evidence on the Tote–SP anomaly and its implications for models of risky choice in gambling markets 0 0 0 4 0 0 5 24
Returns to thuggery in the National Hockey League: the effects of increased enforcement 0 0 1 23 0 0 9 66
The Demand for Spectator Sports 1 2 10 148 1 2 22 357
The Financial Crisis in European Football: An Introduction 0 0 1 2 24 27 49 92
The footballers’ labour market after the Bosman ruling 0 0 8 112 0 4 31 318
Valuing the blind side: pay and performance of offensive linemen in the National Football League 0 0 1 49 1 2 17 150
Total Chapters 1 2 36 444 31 44 240 1,395


Statistics updated 2026-09-10