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A Law of Large numbers: Bidding and competitive tendering for refuse collection contracts 0 0 0 10 0 3 10 373
A Theory of the Evolution of Modern Sport 0 1 2 928 3 7 27 3,897
Are restrictions of competition by sports associations horizontal or vertical in nature? 0 1 1 154 0 2 21 447
Competitive Balance and Income Redistribution in Team Sports 0 0 3 798 0 1 9 1,173
Competitive balance and gate revenue sharing in team sports 1 2 9 917 2 12 72 2,244
Competitive balance in sports leagues and the paradox of power 0 0 0 902 0 2 17 2,636
Convergence vs. the middle income trap: The case of global soccer 0 0 0 47 1 7 29 156
Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Outcome: Static and Dynamic Competitive Balance in European and North American Sports Leagues 1 1 3 220 1 1 12 605
Financial fair play in European football 4 8 41 739 4 12 147 1,987
First and Second Prizes in Imperfectly Discriminating Contests 0 0 0 146 0 0 7 368
Goal! Profit maximization and win maximization in football leagues 2 4 12 1,108 3 10 50 2,942
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 21
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 49
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 117
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 0 1 15 37
If you host it, where will they come from? Mega-Events and Tourism in South Africa 0 0 1 270 1 3 25 949
Insolvency in English professional football: Irrational Exuberance or Negative Shocks? 1 2 11 381 3 7 45 1,020
Insolvency in French Soccer 0 0 1 66 1 1 19 182
Introduction 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 16
Introduction 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 10
National Wellbeing and International Sports Events 0 2 9 1,097 2 6 47 3,513
On the Edge of Your Seat: Demand for Football on Television and the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis 2 7 9 830 2 8 44 2,033
Parallel Trade, International Exhaustion and Intellectual Property Rights: A Welfare Analysis 0 0 0 215 0 0 10 643
Parallel Trade, International Exhaustion and Intellectual Property Rights: A Welfare Analysis 0 0 0 331 0 1 5 1,210
Privatisation, Liberalisation, Wages and Employment: Theory and Evidence for the UK 1 2 2 14 1 2 13 36
Privatization, Jobs and Wages 0 0 0 0 0 1 9 13
Quantifying the Intangible Impact of the Olympics Using Subjective Well-Being Data 0 0 0 37 1 1 17 110
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 20 0 0 16 60
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 13 1 1 12 37
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 38 1 2 19 72
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 0 1 1 14 63
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 2 46 0 0 20 149
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 0 0 2 13 32
Teaching competition in professional sports leagues 0 0 0 79 0 0 15 235
Teaching competition in professional sports leagues 0 0 0 361 0 0 19 1,168
The Champions League and the Coase Theorem 0 0 0 950 0 0 17 2,023
The Host with the Most? The Effects of the Olympic Games on Happiness 0 0 0 29 0 0 13 129
The Host with the Most? The Effects of the Olympic Games on Happiness 0 0 0 49 0 1 27 366
The Host with the Most? The Effects of the Olympic Games on Happiness 0 0 0 22 1 1 18 154
The host with the most? The effects of the Olympic Games on happiness 0 0 0 10 0 0 10 121
The host with the most? The effects of the Olympic Games on happiness 0 0 0 82 0 1 18 262
The inefficient advantage of experience in the market for football managers 0 0 3 58 1 4 18 152
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 0 1 12 763
Tilting the Playing Field: Why a sports league planner would choose less, not more, competitive balance 0 0 0 382 0 0 14 820
Transatlantic Sport: An Introduction 0 0 0 99 1 1 3 261
Two recent cases relating to broadcasting and football in England 0 0 0 101 0 0 8 217
Vertical restraints in soccer: Financial fair play and the English Premier League 1 3 9 1,324 2 4 39 2,913
Why Have Premium Sports Rights Migrated to Pay-TV in Europe but not in the US? 0 0 1 237 0 2 11 446
Total Working Papers 13 33 120 13,466 33 111 1,018 37,230


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A BARGAINING THEORY OF PRIVATISATION 0 0 0 10 1 3 14 49
A Law of Large Numbers: Bidding and Compulsory Competitive Tendering for Refuse Collection Contracts 0 0 3 56 0 6 22 186
A Market Test for Discrimination in the English Professional Soccer Leagues 0 0 6 414 0 0 19 1,152
ARE RESTRICTIONS OF COMPETITION BY SPORTS ASSOCIATIONS HORIZONTAL OR VERTICAL IN NATURE? 0 1 1 30 1 4 18 100
All Runs Are Created Equal: Labor Market Efficiency in Major League Baseball 0 3 3 16 3 8 15 58
Anticipating the honeymoon: Event study estimation of new stadium effects in Major League Baseball using the imputation method 0 0 0 4 0 0 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 0 1 8 85 0 3 63 267
Bad for Business? The Effects of Hooliganism on English Professional Football Clubs 0 0 5 180 1 3 33 830
Beaten in the race for the ball: Black footballers get paid less than they are worth, and football suffers 0 0 0 17 0 2 6 59
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 0 2 350 0 1 23 757
CCT: a clean solution?: Compulsory tendering may save local government, not destroy it 0 0 0 6 0 0 8 49
Cheap rubbish? Competitive tendering and contracting out in refuse collection, 1981-88 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 306
Competitive balance and gate revenue sharing in team sports 1 1 5 547 6 15 70 1,468
Convergence versus the middle-income trap: the case of global soccer 0 0 3 12 0 7 32 83
Economics of Sport: Introduction 0 0 0 397 0 0 7 1,077
English Football 1 2 13 244 1 9 63 697
Entry into exit: insolvency in English professional football 0 0 7 49 1 4 22 131
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 3 3 5 77 5 20 43 281
Executive Pay and Performance: The Empirical Importance of the Participation Constraint 0 0 0 6 0 0 7 107
Fair is Foul: A Critical Analysis of UEFA Financial Fair Play 0 1 5 723 1 4 34 1,804
Financial fair play in European football 1 2 20 143 3 9 94 471
From the Olympics to the grassroots: What will London 2012 mean for sport funding and participation in Britain? 0 0 0 122 0 0 9 348
GOVERNANCE AND VERTICAL INTEGRATION IN TEAM SPORTS 0 0 0 104 0 2 11 408
Goal! Profit Maximization Versus Win Maximization in Soccer 1 4 16 677 3 11 55 1,518
Incentive effects of second prizes 0 0 1 197 0 1 12 464
Income Inequality, Competitive Balance and the Attractiveness of Team Sports: Some Evidence and a Natural Experiment from English Soccer 0 0 0 490 1 3 27 1,521
Insolvency in French Soccer 0 0 3 16 2 3 20 95
Making Hay While the Sun Shines 0 0 0 43 0 0 8 402
Making Money Out of Football 0 1 7 69 1 2 40 227
Microeconomic contributions to strategic management: J. Thepot and R.-A. Thietart, eds.,North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1991 0 0 0 56 0 1 6 220
Modelling the spatial impact of the introduction of Compulsory Competitive Tendering 0 0 0 66 0 0 6 257
National well-being and international sports events 0 0 4 318 0 7 49 1,101
ON THE OPTIMAL REALIGNMENT OF A CONTEST: THE CASE OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL 0 0 0 6 1 2 11 56
Olympic Games, Terrorism and their Impact on the London and Paris Stock Exchanges 0 0 0 46 0 1 12 212
On the Edge of Your Seat: Demand for Football on Television and the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis 1 6 11 370 2 13 37 1,075
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 3 20 67
On the efficiency of trading intangible fixed assets in Major League Baseball 1 2 6 7 2 4 18 26
PARALLEL TRADE, INTERNATIONAL EXHAUSTION AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: A WELFARE ANALYSIS* 0 0 0 73 0 1 12 261
Parallel trade, price discrimination, investment and price caps 0 0 1 147 0 0 14 606
Professional Asian Football Leagues and the Global Market 0 0 5 27 0 1 22 83
Professional Team Sports Are Only a Game 0 0 2 14 0 3 23 58
Promotion and Relegation 0 0 2 241 1 26 38 591
Promotion and Relegation in Sporting Contests 0 2 8 157 2 11 34 475
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 3 32 1 2 25 190
Racial Discrimination in English football 1 3 4 12 2 4 21 59
Rational pricing strategies in the cross channel market 0 0 0 55 0 1 8 234
Regulation through comparative performance evaluation 0 0 0 36 0 0 13 121
Reply: "Professional Team Sports Are Only a Game: The Walrasian Fixed-Supply Conjecture Model, Contest-Nash Equilibrium, and the Invariance Principle" 0 0 1 19 0 3 13 78
Some Observations on Fort and Winfree “Nash Conjectures and Talent Supply in Sports League Modeling 0 0 0 17 0 0 8 89
Spatial dependence through local yardstick competition:: theory and testing 0 0 0 127 0 0 5 283
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 0 174 1 4 13 469
Teaching Competition in Professional Sports Leagues 0 0 0 17 0 1 8 91
Testing Causality Between Team Performance and Payroll 0 3 7 126 2 7 48 395
Testing the O-Ring theory using data from the English Premier League 0 0 3 59 0 2 37 289
The Americanization of European football 0 3 9 38 0 7 42 138
The Assessment: The Economics of Sport 0 0 0 9 3 4 16 1,490
The Disappearing Relationship Between Directors' Pay and Corporate Performance 1 1 3 53 1 2 14 150
The Economic Design of Sporting Contests 2 3 23 201 6 17 129 1,975
The Economic Impact of the World Cup 0 3 36 3,502 0 12 130 9,060
The Economics of Sport: An International Perspective. By ROBERT SANDY, PETER J. SLOANE and MARK S. ROSENTRAUB 0 0 2 343 0 2 11 668
The English Football Industry: profit, performance and industrial structure 1 3 15 611 1 3 72 6,160
The Financial Crisis and English Football: The Dog That Will Not Bark 0 0 10 548 0 3 46 1,198
The Financial Crisis in European Football 0 1 11 37 0 3 30 89
The Market for Olympic Gold Medals 0 0 1 287 0 1 9 1,143
The Political Economy of Sport 0 0 7 251 1 2 41 1,296
The Private Benefit of Public Funding: The FIFA World Cup, UEFA European Championship, and Attendance at Host Country League Soccer 0 0 3 28 1 2 16 107
The Promotion Test 0 0 0 78 0 1 6 242
The Survival of Mediocre Superstars in the Labor Market 0 0 0 4 0 0 12 31
The impact of compulsory competitive tendering on refuse collection services 0 0 0 177 0 0 17 1,179
Tourism and the 2010 World Cup: Lessons for Developing Countries 0 0 3 171 1 5 25 425
Up for the Cup 0 0 0 71 0 0 5 219
Total Journal Articles 14 49 293 13,787 58 281 1,925 48,078


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Football Economics and Policy 0 0 0 2 2 7 65 184
The Comparative Economics of Sport 0 0 2 2 1 4 73 166
Total Books 0 0 2 4 3 11 138 350


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Market Test for Discrimination in the English Professional Soccer Leagues 0 0 1 1 0 2 17 40
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 1 13 17
Baseball Economics 0 0 1 17 0 0 5 87
Broadcasting, Attendance and the Inefficiency of Cartels 0 0 1 1 0 0 13 24
Competitive Balance and Gate Revenue Sharing in Team Sports 0 0 0 1 0 0 17 40
English Football 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 37
Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Outcome: Open Leagues, Closed Leagues and Competitive Balance 0 0 0 1 1 6 19 41
European and North American Sports Differences (?): A Quarter Century on 0 0 0 0 1 4 29 34
Football in England 0 0 0 35 0 0 14 209
Hearts, Minds and the Restrictive Practices Court 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 7
Incentive effects of second prizes 0 0 0 0 1 15 67 69
Income Inequality, Competitive Balance and the Attractiveness of Team Sports: Some Evidence and a Natural Experiment from English Soccer 0 0 0 0 0 0 19 42
Insolvency in English football 0 0 1 28 0 0 10 82
Introduction 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 8
Is there evidence of softness in the budget constraint in football? Some evidence from English clubs 1 1 3 19 1 2 9 37
New Stadiums in North America and Europe: A Comparison and Agenda for Future Research 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 22
Open Competition in League Sports 0 0 0 1 1 1 13 30
Professional Team Sports Are Only a Game: The Walrasian Fixed-Supply Conjecture Model, Contest-Nash Equilibrium, and the Invariance Principle 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 10
Promotion and Relegation in Sporting Contests 0 0 0 1 1 2 13 54
Revenue Sharing 0 0 0 8 0 0 9 51
Seizing the Moment: A Blueprint for Reform of World Cricket 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 17
Sport Financing and Governance in Europe 0 0 4 43 0 1 16 115
The Americanization of European football 0 0 0 0 1 1 12 42
The Anglo-American Model of Sport 0 1 2 24 1 2 9 91
The Champions League and the Coase Theorem 0 1 1 1 0 26 36 58
The Economic Design of Sporting Contests 0 0 1 1 0 1 36 61
The Economic Impact of the World Cup 0 0 1 8 0 16 50 225
The Employment Effects of London 2012: An Assessment in Mid-2011 0 0 2 73 0 0 9 146
The English Football Industry: Profit, Performance and Industrial Structure 0 0 0 1 2 3 25 88
The Financial Crisis in European Football: An Introduction 0 0 1 2 0 24 48 92
The J. League and the World Cup 0 0 2 2 0 3 20 38
The Market for Soccer Players in England after Bosman: Winners and Losers 0 0 0 3 2 2 21 64
The Political Economy of Sport 0 0 0 1 2 4 24 61
The Promotion and Relegation System 1 2 2 87 1 5 22 229
The Sporting Exception and the Legality of Restraints in the US 0 0 0 4 1 1 7 28
The Theory of Tournaments 0 0 2 35 0 3 11 78
Uncertainty of Outcome, Competitive Balance and the Theory of Team Sports 0 2 12 162 1 5 37 498
Wages, transfers and the variation of team performance in the English Premier League 0 1 17 417 1 7 53 814
Why Have Premium Sports Rights Migrated to Pay TV in Europe But Not in the US? 0 0 0 3 0 0 8 24
“Form is temporary, class is permanent”: an English Premier League analysis 0 0 1 8 0 6 30 92
Total Chapters 2 8 55 988 18 143 791 3,802


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