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A Law of Large numbers: Bidding and competitive tendering for refuse collection contracts 0 0 0 10 1 1 9 371
A Theory of the Evolution of Modern Sport 0 0 3 927 0 3 24 3,890
Are restrictions of competition by sports associations horizontal or vertical in nature? 1 1 1 154 2 4 22 447
Competitive Balance and Income Redistribution in Team Sports 0 0 3 798 1 1 9 1,173
Competitive balance and gate revenue sharing in team sports 1 2 9 916 8 29 70 2,240
Competitive balance in sports leagues and the paradox of power 0 0 0 902 0 0 15 2,634
Convergence vs. the middle income trap: The case of global soccer 0 0 0 47 3 9 27 152
Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Outcome: Static and Dynamic Competitive Balance in European and North American Sports Leagues 0 0 2 219 0 1 11 604
Financial fair play in European football 3 9 39 734 5 24 151 1,980
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 0 2 8 1,104 5 14 45 2,937
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 0 2 14 36
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 49
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 1 3 7 116
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 21
If you host it, where will they come from? Mega-Events and Tourism in South Africa 0 1 1 270 0 2 23 946
Insolvency in English professional football: Irrational Exuberance or Negative Shocks? 0 0 9 379 2 7 43 1,015
Insolvency in French Soccer 0 1 2 66 0 2 19 181
Introduction 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 10
Introduction 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 16
National Wellbeing and International Sports Events 1 4 9 1,096 3 12 49 3,510
On the Edge of Your Seat: Demand for Football on Television and the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis 4 4 6 827 4 4 42 2,029
Parallel Trade, International Exhaustion and Intellectual Property Rights: A Welfare Analysis 0 0 0 215 0 0 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 1 1 1 13 1 2 12 35
Privatization, Jobs and Wages 0 0 0 0 1 2 9 13
Quantifying the Intangible Impact of the Olympics Using Subjective Well-Being Data 0 0 0 37 0 1 17 109
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 2 46 0 1 21 149
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 0 0 1 13 62
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 13 0 1 11 36
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 20 0 2 17 60
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 0 0 2 11 30
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 38 0 1 18 70
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 3 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 3 13 129
The Host with the Most? The Effects of the Olympic Games on Happiness 0 0 0 22 0 3 17 153
The Host with the Most? The Effects of the Olympic Games on Happiness 0 0 0 49 0 0 26 365
The host with the most? The effects of the Olympic Games on happiness 0 0 0 82 0 4 17 261
The host with the most? The effects of the Olympic Games on happiness 0 0 0 10 0 1 10 121
The inefficient advantage of experience in the market for football managers 0 1 3 58 0 1 15 148
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 0 2 13 762
Tilting the Playing Field: Why a sports league planner would choose less, not more, competitive balance 0 0 1 382 0 1 15 820
Transatlantic Sport: An Introduction 0 0 0 99 0 0 2 260
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 1 11 1,322 1 2 46 2,910
Why Have Premium Sports Rights Migrated to Pay-TV in Europe but not in the US? 0 0 1 237 1 2 10 445
Total Working Papers 12 27 112 13,445 39 154 1,000 37,158


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A BARGAINING THEORY OF PRIVATISATION 0 0 0 10 1 2 12 47
A Law of Large Numbers: Bidding and Compulsory Competitive Tendering for Refuse Collection Contracts 0 0 3 56 0 1 16 180
A Market Test for Discrimination in the English Professional Soccer Leagues 0 0 6 414 0 1 21 1,152
ARE RESTRICTIONS OF COMPETITION BY SPORTS ASSOCIATIONS HORIZONTAL OR VERTICAL IN NATURE? 1 1 1 30 3 4 18 99
All Runs Are Created Equal: Labor Market Efficiency in Major League Baseball 1 1 2 14 2 4 13 52
Anticipating the honeymoon: Event study estimation of new stadium effects in Major League Baseball using the imputation method 0 0 0 4 0 1 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 8 85 2 8 65 266
Bad for Business? The Effects of Hooliganism on English Professional Football Clubs 0 3 5 180 1 10 32 828
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 5 58
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 1 5 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 1 7 306
Competitive balance and gate revenue sharing in team sports 0 1 4 546 7 22 63 1,460
Convergence versus the middle-income trap: the case of global soccer 0 2 3 12 6 10 31 82
Economics of Sport: Introduction 0 0 0 397 0 0 7 1,077
English Football 0 1 11 242 5 9 61 693
Entry into exit: insolvency in English professional football 0 1 8 49 2 4 21 129
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 0 2 74 11 13 38 272
Executive Pay and Performance: The Empirical Importance of the Participation Constraint 0 0 0 6 0 1 7 107
Fair is Foul: A Critical Analysis of UEFA Financial Fair Play 1 1 7 723 2 11 43 1,802
Financial fair play in European football 1 4 20 142 3 17 94 465
From the Olympics to the grassroots: What will London 2012 mean for sport funding and participation in Britain? 0 0 0 122 0 0 10 348
GOVERNANCE AND VERTICAL INTEGRATION IN TEAM SPORTS 0 0 0 104 1 3 10 407
Goal! Profit Maximization Versus Win Maximization in Soccer 2 3 14 675 4 9 49 1,511
Incentive effects of second prizes 0 1 1 197 1 3 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 4 27 1,519
Insolvency in French Soccer 0 0 3 16 1 4 18 93
Making Hay While the Sun Shines 0 0 0 43 0 1 8 402
Making Money Out of Football 0 1 6 68 0 6 40 225
Microeconomic contributions to strategic management: J. Thepot and R.-A. Thietart, eds.,North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1991 0 0 0 56 0 0 5 219
Modelling the spatial impact of the introduction of Compulsory Competitive Tendering 0 0 0 66 0 0 7 257
National well-being and international sports events 0 3 4 318 3 11 47 1,097
ON THE OPTIMAL REALIGNMENT OF A CONTEST: THE CASE OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL 0 0 0 6 1 1 10 55
Olympic Games, Terrorism and their Impact on the London and Paris Stock Exchanges 0 0 0 46 0 0 12 211
On the Edge of Your Seat: Demand for Football on Television and the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis 3 4 9 367 6 8 34 1,068
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 1 1 18 65
On the efficiency of trading intangible fixed assets in Major League Baseball 0 1 5 5 1 3 18 23
PARALLEL TRADE, INTERNATIONAL EXHAUSTION AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: A WELFARE ANALYSIS* 0 0 0 73 0 0 11 260
Parallel trade, price discrimination, investment and price caps 0 1 1 147 0 2 14 606
Professional Asian Football Leagues and the Global Market 0 1 5 27 0 3 21 82
Professional Team Sports Are Only a Game 0 0 2 14 2 2 23 57
Promotion and Relegation 0 1 2 241 0 1 13 565
Promotion and Relegation in Sporting Contests 1 2 8 156 6 10 33 470
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 3 32 0 0 23 188
Racial Discrimination in English football 1 1 2 10 1 2 18 56
Rational pricing strategies in the cross channel market 0 0 0 55 1 1 8 234
Regulation through comparative performance evaluation 0 0 0 36 0 1 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 1 1 11 76
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 7 283
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 1 174 1 2 11 466
Teaching Competition in Professional Sports Leagues 0 0 0 17 0 0 8 90
Testing Causality Between Team Performance and Payroll 2 2 6 125 4 9 45 392
Testing the O-Ring theory using data from the English Premier League 0 2 3 59 2 7 39 289
The Americanization of European football 1 2 8 36 3 5 39 134
The Assessment: The Economics of Sport 0 0 0 9 1 2 13 1,487
The Disappearing Relationship Between Directors' Pay and Corporate Performance 0 0 2 52 0 1 14 148
The Economic Design of Sporting Contests 0 4 21 198 6 15 121 1,964
The Economic Impact of the World Cup 3 11 36 3,502 6 25 131 9,054
The Economics of Sport: An International Perspective. By ROBERT SANDY, PETER J. SLOANE and MARK S. ROSENTRAUB 0 0 3 343 0 1 10 666
The English Football Industry: profit, performance and industrial structure 0 2 17 608 0 9 82 6,157
The Financial Crisis and English Football: The Dog That Will Not Bark 0 0 12 548 3 5 52 1,198
The Financial Crisis in European Football 1 1 12 37 2 3 31 88
The Market for Olympic Gold Medals 0 1 1 287 0 2 8 1,142
The Political Economy of Sport 0 1 7 251 1 7 40 1,295
The Private Benefit of Public Funding: The FIFA World Cup, UEFA European Championship, and Attendance at Host Country League Soccer 0 1 4 28 1 2 18 106
The Promotion Test 0 0 0 78 1 2 6 242
The Survival of Mediocre Superstars in the Labor Market 0 0 0 4 0 1 14 31
The impact of compulsory competitive tendering on refuse collection services 0 0 0 177 0 1 23 1,179
Tourism and the 2010 World Cup: Lessons for Developing Countries 0 0 4 171 4 7 27 424
Up for the Cup 0 0 0 71 0 0 6 219
Total Journal Articles 19 63 285 13,757 113 309 1,872 47,910


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Football Economics and Policy 0 0 0 2 2 16 62 179
The Comparative Economics of Sport 0 0 2 2 2 8 73 164
Total Books 0 0 2 4 4 24 135 343


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Market Test for Discrimination in the English Professional Soccer Leagues 0 0 1 1 1 1 16 39
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 12 16
Baseball Economics 0 0 2 17 0 0 6 87
Broadcasting, Attendance and the Inefficiency of Cartels 0 0 1 1 0 1 15 24
Competitive Balance and Gate Revenue Sharing in Team Sports 0 0 0 1 0 4 18 40
English Football 0 0 0 0 0 1 13 37
Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Outcome: Open Leagues, Closed Leagues and Competitive Balance 0 0 0 1 1 6 15 36
European and North American Sports Differences (?): A Quarter Century on 0 0 0 0 2 5 28 32
Football in England 0 0 0 35 0 5 14 209
Hearts, Minds and the Restrictive Practices Court 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 7
Incentive effects of second prizes 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 0 5 22 42
Insolvency in English football 0 0 1 28 0 2 11 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 0 1 2 18 0 1 7 35
New Stadiums in North America and Europe: A Comparison and Agenda for Future Research 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 22
Open Competition in League Sports 0 0 0 1 0 0 12 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 0 2 4 10
Promotion and Relegation in Sporting Contests 0 0 0 1 1 1 12 53
Revenue Sharing 0 0 0 8 0 2 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 1 4 43 1 2 17 115
The Americanization of European football 0 0 0 0 0 5 11 41
The Anglo-American Model of Sport 0 0 1 23 0 0 7 89
The Champions League and the Coase Theorem 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 32
The Economic Design of Sporting Contests 0 0 1 1 1 6 36 61
The Economic Impact of the World Cup 0 0 1 8 1 11 37 210
The Employment Effects of London 2012: An Assessment in Mid-2011 0 0 2 73 0 0 10 146
The English Football Industry: Profit, Performance and Industrial Structure 0 0 0 1 0 1 24 85
The Financial Crisis in European Football: An Introduction 0 0 1 2 0 4 25 68
The J. League and the World Cup 0 0 2 2 2 3 19 37
The Market for Soccer Players in England after Bosman: Winners and Losers 0 0 0 3 0 4 22 62
The Political Economy of Sport 0 0 0 1 2 6 23 59
The Promotion and Relegation System 1 1 1 86 4 4 23 228
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 0 8 75
Uncertainty of Outcome, Competitive Balance and the Theory of Team Sports 0 2 10 160 1 5 34 494
Wages, transfers and the variation of team performance in the English Premier League 1 3 20 417 3 7 54 810
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 1 27 86
Total Chapters 2 8 53 982 20 98 701 3,679


Statistics updated 2026-08-07