Access Statistics for Stefan Szymanski

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A Law of Large numbers: Bidding and competitive tendering for refuse collection contracts 0 0 0 10 0 2 6 368
A Theory of the Evolution of Modern Sport 1 1 5 927 4 9 25 3,884
Are restrictions of competition by sports associations horizontal or vertical in nature? 0 0 0 153 3 11 15 439
Competitive Balance and Income Redistribution in Team Sports 0 3 3 798 0 5 9 1,171
Competitive balance and gate revenue sharing in team sports 0 1 6 912 1 14 25 2,193
Competitive balance in sports leagues and the paradox of power 0 0 0 902 1 11 16 2,634
Convergence vs. the middle income trap: The case of global soccer 0 0 0 47 2 5 22 143
Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Outcome: Static and Dynamic Competitive Balance in European and North American Sports Leagues 0 2 2 219 0 8 10 602
Financial fair play in European football 8 13 31 721 20 50 133 1,942
First and Second Prizes in Imperfectly Discriminating Contests 0 0 0 146 1 3 6 367
Goal! Profit maximization and win maximization in football leagues 1 3 5 1,099 5 17 32 2,914
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 1 3 7 45
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 18
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 1 9 11 33
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 112
If you host it, where will they come from? Mega-Events and Tourism in South Africa 0 0 0 269 0 9 18 936
Insolvency in English professional football: Irrational Exuberance or Negative Shocks? 2 5 13 379 5 17 42 1,004
Insolvency in French Soccer 0 0 1 65 0 7 14 175
Introduction 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 14
Introduction 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 7
National Wellbeing and International Sports Events 1 1 5 1,091 3 15 35 3,494
On the Edge of Your Seat: Demand for Football on Television and the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis 0 1 2 822 3 15 36 2,016
Parallel Trade, International Exhaustion and Intellectual Property Rights: A Welfare Analysis 0 0 0 215 1 5 11 642
Parallel Trade, International Exhaustion and Intellectual Property Rights: A Welfare Analysis 0 0 0 331 0 2 4 1,209
Privatisation, Liberalisation, Wages and Employment: Theory and Evidence for the UK 0 0 0 12 0 3 11 33
Privatization, Jobs and Wages 0 0 0 0 0 5 6 10
Quantifying the Intangible Impact of the Olympics Using Subjective Well-Being Data 0 0 0 37 2 8 11 103
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 0 1 6 10 57
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 38 1 7 12 64
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 20 1 7 13 56
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 13 0 3 5 29
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 2 46 5 6 19 141
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 0 1 7 8 26
Teaching competition in professional sports leagues 0 0 0 79 1 6 8 228
Teaching competition in professional sports leagues 0 0 0 361 0 6 23 1,164
The Champions League and the Coase Theorem 0 0 0 950 0 8 16 2,022
The Host with the Most? The Effects of the Olympic Games on Happiness 0 0 0 49 0 6 18 357
The Host with the Most? The Effects of the Olympic Games on Happiness 0 0 0 29 0 7 11 126
The Host with the Most? The Effects of the Olympic Games on Happiness 0 0 0 22 1 6 12 145
The host with the most? The effects of the Olympic Games on happiness 0 0 0 82 1 5 11 254
The host with the most? The effects of the Olympic Games on happiness 0 0 0 10 0 3 6 117
The inefficient advantage of experience in the market for football managers 0 0 1 55 1 5 12 143
Tilting the Playing Field (Why a sports league planner would choose less, not more, competitive balance): The case of English Football 0 1 3 356 0 1 13 759
Tilting the Playing Field: Why a sports league planner would choose less, not more, competitive balance 0 0 1 382 0 6 12 816
Transatlantic Sport: An Introduction 0 0 0 99 0 0 1 259
Two recent cases relating to broadcasting and football in England 0 0 0 101 0 4 4 213
Vertical restraints in soccer: Financial fair play and the English Premier League 0 2 10 1,319 2 13 48 2,900
Why Have Premium Sports Rights Migrated to Pay-TV in Europe but not in the US? 0 1 1 237 1 4 7 442
Total Working Papers 13 34 91 13,403 69 352 786 36,826


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A BARGAINING THEORY OF PRIVATISATION 0 0 1 10 1 5 10 44
A Law of Large Numbers: Bidding and Compulsory Competitive Tendering for Refuse Collection Contracts 0 1 3 56 5 10 13 177
A Market Test for Discrimination in the English Professional Soccer Leagues 0 2 5 412 3 6 19 1,147
ARE RESTRICTIONS OF COMPETITION BY SPORTS ASSOCIATIONS HORIZONTAL OR VERTICAL IN NATURE? 0 0 3 29 0 4 13 90
All Runs Are Created Equal: Labor Market Efficiency in Major League Baseball 0 0 5 13 0 1 14 48
Anticipating the honeymoon: Event study estimation of new stadium effects in Major League Baseball using the imputation method 0 0 0 4 1 5 9 19
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 3 6 83 4 27 58 255
Bad for Business? The Effects of Hooliganism on English Professional Football Clubs 1 1 3 177 3 11 23 813
Beaten in the race for the ball: Black footballers get paid less than they are worth, and football suffers 0 0 0 17 0 1 3 55
Book Review: The Economics of Sports, The Economics of Professional Team Sports 0 0 0 2 0 5 8 17
Broadcasting, Attendance and the Inefficiency of Cartels 0 1 1 349 1 8 11 744
CCT: a clean solution?: Compulsory tendering may save local government, not destroy it 0 0 0 6 0 4 8 48
Cheap rubbish? Competitive tendering and contracting out in refuse collection, 1981-88 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 303
Competitive balance and gate revenue sharing in team sports 1 2 3 545 2 10 24 1,417
Convergence versus the middle-income trap: the case of global soccer 0 0 1 10 0 12 16 66
Economics of Sport: Introduction 0 0 0 397 0 2 7 1,076
English Football 1 2 7 235 8 26 63 672
Entry into exit: insolvency in English professional football 0 3 11 48 2 11 27 123
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 1 2 8 74 3 10 29 254
Executive Pay and Performance: The Empirical Importance of the Participation Constraint 0 0 0 6 0 2 4 104
Fair is Foul: A Critical Analysis of UEFA Financial Fair Play 1 2 22 722 4 11 58 1,789
Financial fair play in European football 4 8 22 137 13 32 85 440
From the Olympics to the grassroots: What will London 2012 mean for sport funding and participation in Britain? 0 0 2 122 2 5 12 348
GOVERNANCE AND VERTICAL INTEGRATION IN TEAM SPORTS 0 0 0 104 1 3 6 402
Goal! Profit Maximization Versus Win Maximization in Soccer 2 5 14 669 9 22 45 1,493
Incentive effects of second prizes 0 0 5 196 0 5 15 459
Income Inequality, Competitive Balance and the Attractiveness of Team Sports: Some Evidence and a Natural Experiment from English Soccer 0 0 0 490 1 10 19 1,508
Insolvency in French Soccer 0 1 4 16 1 7 14 87
Making Hay While the Sun Shines 0 0 0 43 0 5 7 400
Making Money Out of Football 1 2 8 66 3 13 39 213
Microeconomic contributions to strategic management: J. Thepot and R.-A. Thietart, eds.,North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1991 0 0 0 56 0 3 4 218
Modelling the spatial impact of the introduction of Compulsory Competitive Tendering 0 0 0 66 0 2 6 255
National well-being and international sports events 0 1 4 315 2 19 40 1,080
ON THE OPTIMAL REALIGNMENT OF A CONTEST: THE CASE OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL 0 0 0 6 0 4 6 50
Olympic Games, Terrorism and their Impact on the London and Paris Stock Exchanges 0 0 0 46 0 5 10 208
On the Edge of Your Seat: Demand for Football on Television and the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis 1 4 8 363 1 13 32 1,057
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 1 18 0 6 18 64
On the efficiency of trading intangible fixed assets in Major League Baseball 1 2 3 3 2 8 15 17
PARALLEL TRADE, INTERNATIONAL EXHAUSTION AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: A WELFARE ANALYSIS* 0 0 0 73 1 5 10 259
Parallel trade, price discrimination, investment and price caps 0 0 1 146 1 6 12 603
Professional Asian Football Leagues and the Global Market 2 3 4 26 2 6 13 74
Professional Team Sports Are Only a Game 0 0 2 14 1 9 14 48
Promotion and Relegation 1 1 1 240 2 6 12 563
Promotion and Relegation in Sporting Contests 0 1 6 154 0 8 27 456
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 1 1 7 32 4 12 25 182
Racial Discrimination in English football 1 1 2 9 3 8 11 48
Rational pricing strategies in the cross channel market 0 0 0 55 1 4 6 232
Regulation through comparative performance evaluation 0 0 1 36 0 5 13 119
Reply: "Professional Team Sports Are Only a Game: The Walrasian Fixed-Supply Conjecture Model, Contest-Nash Equilibrium, and the Invariance Principle" 1 1 1 19 1 5 6 71
Some Observations on Fort and Winfree “Nash Conjectures and Talent Supply in Sports League Modeling 0 0 0 17 0 4 6 87
Spatial dependence through local yardstick competition:: theory and testing 0 0 0 127 0 1 7 282
Strategic delegation with endogenous costs: A duopoly with wage bargaining 0 0 0 72 0 1 2 167
THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE AND THE COASE THEOREM 0 0 3 174 0 3 10 462
Teaching Competition in Professional Sports Leagues 0 0 0 17 0 0 8 87
Testing Causality Between Team Performance and Payroll 0 3 6 123 6 23 35 377
Testing the O-Ring theory using data from the English Premier League 0 0 1 56 4 10 24 271
The Americanization of European football 0 1 7 33 4 17 36 125
The Assessment: The Economics of Sport 0 0 0 9 3 4 9 1,481
The Disappearing Relationship Between Directors' Pay and Corporate Performance 0 0 3 52 0 5 12 145
The Economic Design of Sporting Contests 3 7 16 189 9 62 97 1,930
The Economic Impact of the World Cup 2 9 42 3,491 8 40 141 9,024
The Economics of Sport: An International Perspective. By ROBERT SANDY, PETER J. SLOANE and MARK S. ROSENTRAUB 0 0 1 341 0 1 3 659
The English Football Industry: profit, performance and industrial structure 1 3 14 603 5 31 72 6,139
The Financial Crisis and English Football: The Dog That Will Not Bark 1 6 16 548 5 19 53 1,192
The Financial Crisis in European Football 0 6 13 35 2 12 32 82
The Market for Olympic Gold Medals 0 0 2 286 0 3 6 1,137
The Political Economy of Sport 1 3 6 250 2 20 31 1,286
The Private Benefit of Public Funding: The FIFA World Cup, UEFA European Championship, and Attendance at Host Country League Soccer 0 0 3 26 1 4 16 102
The Promotion Test 0 0 0 78 0 1 4 239
The Survival of Mediocre Superstars in the Labor Market 0 0 0 4 2 8 15 30
The impact of compulsory competitive tendering on refuse collection services 0 0 2 177 2 4 36 1,174
Tourism and the 2010 World Cup: Lessons for Developing Countries 1 1 5 170 2 9 20 414
Up for the Cup 0 0 0 71 0 3 6 218
Total Journal Articles 30 89 315 13,664 143 695 1,625 47,325


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Football Economics and Policy 0 0 0 2 2 18 45 155
The Comparative Economics of Sport 0 0 1 1 6 31 72 149
Total Books 0 0 1 3 8 49 117 304


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Market Test for Discrimination in the English Professional Soccer Leagues 0 0 0 0 0 4 13 35
Antitrust and Inefficient Joint Ventures: Why Sports Leagues Should Look More Like McDonald’s and Less Like the United Nations 0 0 0 0 1 3 9 13
Baseball Economics 0 0 1 16 0 1 6 85
Broadcasting, Attendance and the Inefficiency of Cartels 1 1 1 1 3 6 13 22
Competitive Balance and Gate Revenue Sharing in Team Sports 0 0 0 1 2 4 10 31
English Football 0 0 0 0 2 5 12 33
Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Outcome: Open Leagues, Closed Leagues and Competitive Balance 0 0 0 1 0 2 9 27
European and North American Sports Differences (?): A Quarter Century on 0 0 0 0 1 8 16 18
Football in England 0 0 0 35 0 2 7 201
Hearts, Minds and the Restrictive Practices Court 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 3
Incentive effects of second prizes 0 0 0 0 0 25 47 49
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 17 34
Insolvency in English football 0 1 2 28 2 6 10 79
Introduction 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 7
Is there evidence of softness in the budget constraint in football? Some evidence from English clubs 0 0 2 17 0 0 6 32
New Stadiums in North America and Europe: A Comparison and Agenda for Future Research 0 0 0 0 2 8 15 21
Open Competition in League Sports 0 0 0 1 2 9 12 27
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 1 7
Promotion and Relegation in Sporting Contests 0 0 0 1 1 3 12 50
Revenue Sharing 0 0 0 8 1 2 3 45
Seizing the Moment: A Blueprint for Reform of World Cricket 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 15
Sport Financing and Governance in Europe 1 1 3 42 3 7 13 110
The Americanization of European football 0 0 0 0 0 2 8 35
The Anglo-American Model of Sport 0 1 1 23 1 3 9 89
The Champions League and the Coase Theorem 0 0 0 0 2 5 8 28
The Economic Design of Sporting Contests 0 1 1 1 6 26 30 53
The Economic Impact of the World Cup 0 0 1 8 3 10 37 197
The Employment Effects of London 2012: An Assessment in Mid-2011 1 2 2 73 1 8 11 145
The English Football Industry: Profit, Performance and Industrial Structure 0 0 0 1 2 9 23 81
The Financial Crisis in European Football: An Introduction 0 1 1 2 1 11 19 58
The J. League and the World Cup 0 1 2 2 1 5 15 32
The Market for Soccer Players in England after Bosman: Winners and Losers 0 0 0 3 3 8 17 53
The Political Economy of Sport 0 0 0 1 3 9 21 52
The Promotion and Relegation System 0 0 1 85 1 3 19 220
The Sporting Exception and the Legality of Restraints in the US 0 0 0 4 0 5 6 27
The Theory of Tournaments 0 2 3 35 0 5 10 74
Uncertainty of Outcome, Competitive Balance and the Theory of Team Sports 0 1 9 155 3 12 35 480
Wages, transfers and the variation of team performance in the English Premier League 4 8 20 414 5 23 52 800
Why Have Premium Sports Rights Migrated to Pay TV in Europe But Not in the US? 0 0 0 3 1 4 9 24
“Form is temporary, class is permanent”: an English Premier League analysis 0 1 1 8 3 8 23 76
Total Chapters 7 21 51 969 57 262 598 3,468


Statistics updated 2026-04-09