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A Law of Large numbers: Bidding and competitive tendering for refuse collection contracts 0 0 0 10 0 2 8 370
A Theory of the Evolution of Modern Sport 0 1 4 927 1 8 26 3,888
Are restrictions of competition by sports associations horizontal or vertical in nature? 0 0 0 153 1 8 20 444
Competitive Balance and Income Redistribution in Team Sports 0 0 3 798 0 1 9 1,172
Competitive balance and gate revenue sharing in team sports 1 3 9 915 14 33 56 2,225
Competitive balance in sports leagues and the paradox of power 0 0 0 902 0 1 15 2,634
Convergence vs. the middle income trap: The case of global soccer 0 0 0 47 0 2 19 143
Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Outcome: Static and Dynamic Competitive Balance in European and North American Sports Leagues 0 0 2 219 1 2 11 604
Financial fair play in European football 4 16 36 729 13 47 147 1,969
First and Second Prizes in Imperfectly Discriminating Contests 0 0 0 146 0 2 7 368
Goal! Profit maximization and win maximization in football leagues 0 4 8 1,102 2 16 38 2,925
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 0 5 10 49
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 20
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 1 3 13 35
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 2 3 7 115
If you host it, where will they come from? Mega-Events and Tourism in South Africa 0 0 0 269 0 8 21 944
Insolvency in English professional football: Irrational Exuberance or Negative Shocks? 0 2 9 379 5 14 41 1,013
Insolvency in French Soccer 1 1 2 66 2 6 19 181
Introduction 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 16
Introduction 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 10
National Wellbeing and International Sports Events 2 4 8 1,094 6 13 45 3,504
On the Edge of Your Seat: Demand for Football on Television and the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis 0 1 3 823 0 12 40 2,025
Parallel Trade, International Exhaustion and Intellectual Property Rights: A Welfare Analysis 0 0 0 215 0 2 11 643
Parallel Trade, International Exhaustion and Intellectual Property Rights: A Welfare Analysis 0 0 0 331 0 0 4 1,209
Privatisation, Liberalisation, Wages and Employment: Theory and Evidence for the UK 0 0 0 12 1 1 12 34
Privatization, Jobs and Wages 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 11
Quantifying the Intangible Impact of the Olympics Using Subjective Well-Being Data 0 0 0 37 1 8 17 109
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 38 1 7 18 70
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 13 1 7 12 36
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 0 1 6 14 62
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 0 2 5 11 30
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 20 1 4 16 59
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 2 46 0 12 22 148
Teaching competition in professional sports leagues 0 0 0 79 0 8 15 235
Teaching competition in professional sports leagues 0 0 0 361 1 2 18 1,166
The Champions League and the Coase Theorem 0 0 0 950 0 1 17 2,023
The Host with the Most? The Effects of the Olympic Games on Happiness 0 0 0 22 0 6 14 150
The Host with the Most? The Effects of the Olympic Games on Happiness 0 0 0 49 0 8 26 365
The Host with the Most? The Effects of the Olympic Games on Happiness 0 0 0 29 3 3 14 129
The host with the most? The effects of the Olympic Games on happiness 0 0 0 10 1 4 10 121
The host with the most? The effects of the Olympic Games on happiness 0 0 0 82 3 7 16 260
The inefficient advantage of experience in the market for football managers 1 3 3 58 1 6 16 148
Tilting the Playing Field (Why a sports league planner would choose less, not more, competitive balance): The case of English Football 0 0 1 356 1 2 12 761
Tilting the Playing Field: Why a sports league planner would choose less, not more, competitive balance 0 0 1 382 1 4 15 820
Transatlantic Sport: An Introduction 0 0 0 99 0 1 2 260
Two recent cases relating to broadcasting and football in England 0 0 0 101 0 4 8 217
Vertical restraints in soccer: Financial fair play and the English Premier League 0 2 11 1,321 1 11 48 2,909
Why Have Premium Sports Rights Migrated to Pay-TV in Europe but not in the US? 0 0 1 237 1 3 9 444
Total Working Papers 9 37 103 13,427 69 316 951 37,073


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A BARGAINING THEORY OF PRIVATISATION 0 0 0 10 1 3 11 46
A Law of Large Numbers: Bidding and Compulsory Competitive Tendering for Refuse Collection Contracts 0 0 3 56 1 8 16 180
A Market Test for Discrimination in the English Professional Soccer Leagues 0 2 6 414 1 8 23 1,152
ARE RESTRICTIONS OF COMPETITION BY SPORTS ASSOCIATIONS HORIZONTAL OR VERTICAL IN NATURE? 0 0 2 29 0 5 17 95
All Runs Are Created Equal: Labor Market Efficiency in Major League Baseball 0 0 2 13 2 2 13 50
Anticipating the honeymoon: Event study estimation of new stadium effects in Major League Baseball using the imputation method 0 0 0 4 1 5 11 23
Are We Willing to Pay Enough to `Back the Bid'?: Valuing the Intangible Impacts of London's Bid to Host the 2012 Summer Olympic Games 1 2 7 84 5 12 62 263
Bad for Business? The Effects of Hooliganism on English Professional Football Clubs 2 3 4 179 8 16 33 826
Beaten in the race for the ball: Black footballers get paid less than they are worth, and football suffers 0 0 0 17 1 2 4 57
Book Review: The Economics of Sports, The Economics of Professional Team Sports 0 0 0 2 0 0 8 17
Broadcasting, Attendance and the Inefficiency of Cartels 0 1 2 350 3 12 21 755
CCT: a clean solution?: Compulsory tendering may save local government, not destroy it 0 0 0 6 0 1 8 49
Cheap rubbish? Competitive tendering and contracting out in refuse collection, 1981-88 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 305
Competitive balance and gate revenue sharing in team sports 1 2 4 546 8 31 49 1,446
Convergence versus the middle-income trap: the case of global soccer 0 0 1 10 2 8 23 74
Economics of Sport: Introduction 0 0 0 397 0 1 8 1,077
English Football 0 7 11 241 3 23 67 687
Entry into exit: insolvency in English professional football 0 0 8 48 1 5 24 126
Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Outcome: Open Leagues, Closed Leagues and Competitive Balance *#We thank the Editor and an anonymous referee for helpful comments 0 1 3 74 2 10 28 261
Executive Pay and Performance: The Empirical Importance of the Participation Constraint 0 0 0 6 1 3 7 107
Fair is Foul: A Critical Analysis of UEFA Financial Fair Play 0 1 12 722 5 11 45 1,796
Financial fair play in European football 2 7 22 140 9 30 94 457
From the Olympics to the grassroots: What will London 2012 mean for sport funding and participation in Britain? 0 0 0 122 0 2 10 348
GOVERNANCE AND VERTICAL INTEGRATION IN TEAM SPORTS 0 0 0 104 2 5 9 406
Goal! Profit Maximization Versus Win Maximization in Soccer 0 5 14 672 1 19 45 1,503
Incentive effects of second prizes 1 1 3 197 2 4 14 463
Income Inequality, Competitive Balance and the Attractiveness of Team Sports: Some Evidence and a Natural Experiment from English Soccer 0 0 0 490 2 10 26 1,517
Insolvency in French Soccer 0 0 3 16 1 4 15 90
Making Hay While the Sun Shines 0 0 0 43 0 1 8 401
Making Money Out of Football 1 3 7 68 5 14 45 224
Microeconomic contributions to strategic management: J. Thepot and R.-A. Thietart, eds.,North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1991 0 0 0 56 0 1 5 219
Modelling the spatial impact of the introduction of Compulsory Competitive Tendering 0 0 0 66 0 2 8 257
National well-being and international sports events 2 2 3 317 2 10 41 1,088
ON THE OPTIMAL REALIGNMENT OF A CONTEST: THE CASE OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL 0 0 0 6 0 4 10 54
Olympic Games, Terrorism and their Impact on the London and Paris Stock Exchanges 0 0 0 46 0 3 13 211
On the Edge of Your Seat: Demand for Football on Television and the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis 0 1 5 363 1 5 28 1,061
On the Incidence of an Ad Valorem Tax: The Adoption of VAT in the UK and Cost Pass Through by English Football Clubs 0 0 0 18 0 0 17 64
On the efficiency of trading intangible fixed assets in Major League Baseball 0 2 4 4 1 6 16 21
PARALLEL TRADE, INTERNATIONAL EXHAUSTION AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: A WELFARE ANALYSIS* 0 0 0 73 0 2 11 260
Parallel trade, price discrimination, investment and price caps 1 1 1 147 2 4 14 606
Professional Asian Football Leagues and the Global Market 1 3 5 27 1 8 19 80
Professional Team Sports Are Only a Game 0 0 2 14 0 8 21 55
Promotion and Relegation 1 2 2 241 1 4 13 565
Promotion and Relegation in Sporting Contests 1 1 7 155 2 6 26 462
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 1 5 32 0 10 26 188
Racial Discrimination in English football 0 1 2 9 0 9 17 54
Rational pricing strategies in the cross channel market 0 0 0 55 0 2 7 233
Regulation through comparative performance evaluation 0 0 0 36 1 2 14 121
Reply: "Professional Team Sports Are Only a Game: The Walrasian Fixed-Supply Conjecture Model, Contest-Nash Equilibrium, and the Invariance Principle" 0 1 1 19 0 5 10 75
Some Observations on Fort and Winfree “Nash Conjectures and Talent Supply in Sports League Modeling 0 0 0 17 0 2 8 89
Spatial dependence through local yardstick competition:: theory and testing 0 0 0 127 0 1 8 283
Strategic delegation with endogenous costs: A duopoly with wage bargaining 0 0 0 72 0 0 2 167
THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE AND THE COASE THEOREM 0 0 2 174 1 3 11 465
Teaching Competition in Professional Sports Leagues 0 0 0 17 0 3 10 90
Testing Causality Between Team Performance and Payroll 0 0 4 123 4 16 40 387
Testing the O-Ring theory using data from the English Premier League 1 2 2 58 2 17 35 284
The Americanization of European football 0 1 6 34 0 8 36 129
The Assessment: The Economics of Sport 0 0 0 9 1 8 12 1,486
The Disappearing Relationship Between Directors' Pay and Corporate Performance 0 0 2 52 1 3 14 148
The Economic Design of Sporting Contests 3 11 22 197 5 33 116 1,954
The Economic Impact of the World Cup 2 4 33 3,493 6 19 123 9,035
The Economics of Sport: An International Perspective. By ROBERT SANDY, PETER J. SLOANE and MARK S. ROSENTRAUB 0 2 3 343 1 7 10 666
The English Football Industry: profit, performance and industrial structure 1 5 17 607 7 21 81 6,155
The Financial Crisis and English Football: The Dog That Will Not Bark 0 1 13 548 1 7 49 1,194
The Financial Crisis in European Football 0 1 13 36 0 5 33 85
The Market for Olympic Gold Medals 1 1 2 287 1 4 9 1,141
The Political Economy of Sport 1 2 7 251 3 7 36 1,291
The Private Benefit of Public Funding: The FIFA World Cup, UEFA European Championship, and Attendance at Host Country League Soccer 0 1 3 27 0 3 16 104
The Promotion Test 0 0 0 78 1 2 6 241
The Survival of Mediocre Superstars in the Labor Market 0 0 0 4 1 3 15 31
The impact of compulsory competitive tendering on refuse collection services 0 0 0 177 0 6 38 1,178
Tourism and the 2010 World Cup: Lessons for Developing Countries 0 2 5 171 3 8 24 420
Up for the Cup 0 0 0 71 0 1 7 219
Total Journal Articles 23 83 285 13,717 116 535 1,805 47,717


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Football Economics and Policy 0 0 0 2 7 17 55 170
The Comparative Economics of Sport 0 1 2 2 4 17 70 160
Total Books 0 1 2 4 11 34 125 330


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Market Test for Discrimination in the English Professional Soccer Leagues 0 1 1 1 0 3 15 38
Antitrust and Inefficient Joint Ventures: Why Sports Leagues Should Look More Like McDonald’s and Less Like the United Nations 0 0 0 0 0 2 10 14
Baseball Economics 0 1 2 17 0 2 8 87
Broadcasting, Attendance and the Inefficiency of Cartels 0 1 1 1 0 4 14 23
Competitive Balance and Gate Revenue Sharing in Team Sports 0 0 0 1 2 9 17 38
English Football 0 0 0 0 1 6 16 37
Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Outcome: Open Leagues, Closed Leagues and Competitive Balance 0 0 0 1 5 8 15 35
European and North American Sports Differences (?): A Quarter Century on 0 0 0 0 1 11 25 28
Football in England 0 0 0 35 0 3 10 204
Hearts, Minds and the Restrictive Practices Court 0 0 0 0 1 5 7 7
Incentive effects of second prizes 0 0 0 0 0 5 52 54
Income Inequality, Competitive Balance and the Attractiveness of Team Sports: Some Evidence and a Natural Experiment from English Soccer 0 0 0 0 5 8 23 42
Insolvency in English football 0 0 2 28 1 4 11 81
Introduction 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 8
Is there evidence of softness in the budget constraint in football? Some evidence from English clubs 1 1 2 18 1 3 8 35
New Stadiums in North America and Europe: A Comparison and Agenda for Future Research 0 0 0 0 0 3 16 22
Open Competition in League Sports 0 0 0 1 0 4 13 29
Professional Team Sports Are Only a Game: The Walrasian Fixed-Supply Conjecture Model, Contest-Nash Equilibrium, and the Invariance Principle 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 9
Promotion and Relegation in Sporting Contests 0 0 0 1 0 3 11 52
Revenue Sharing 0 0 0 8 2 7 9 51
Seizing the Moment: A Blueprint for Reform of World Cricket 0 0 0 0 0 2 8 17
Sport Financing and Governance in Europe 1 2 4 43 1 7 16 114
The Americanization of European football 0 0 0 0 3 4 10 39
The Anglo-American Model of Sport 0 0 1 23 0 1 9 89
The Champions League and the Coase Theorem 0 0 0 0 0 6 11 32
The Economic Design of Sporting Contests 0 0 1 1 1 9 33 56
The Economic Impact of the World Cup 0 0 1 8 3 8 33 202
The Employment Effects of London 2012: An Assessment in Mid-2011 0 1 2 73 0 2 11 146
The English Football Industry: Profit, Performance and Industrial Structure 0 0 0 1 1 6 26 85
The Financial Crisis in European Football: An Introduction 0 0 1 2 1 8 25 65
The J. League and the World Cup 0 0 2 2 1 4 18 35
The Market for Soccer Players in England after Bosman: Winners and Losers 0 0 0 3 2 10 20 60
The Political Economy of Sport 0 0 0 1 2 6 20 55
The Promotion and Relegation System 0 0 0 85 0 5 20 224
The Sporting Exception and the Legality of Restraints in the US 0 0 0 4 0 0 6 27
The Theory of Tournaments 0 0 2 35 0 1 10 75
Uncertainty of Outcome, Competitive Balance and the Theory of Team Sports 0 3 9 158 2 14 34 491
Wages, transfers and the variation of team performance in the English Premier League 0 4 18 414 0 8 49 803
Why Have Premium Sports Rights Migrated to Pay TV in Europe But Not in the US? 0 0 0 3 0 1 9 24
“Form is temporary, class is permanent”: an English Premier League analysis 0 0 1 8 1 13 29 86
Total Chapters 2 14 50 976 38 208 686 3,619


Statistics updated 2026-06-04