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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 0 4 927 2 6 26 3,890
Are restrictions of competition by sports associations horizontal or vertical in nature? 0 0 0 153 1 6 21 445
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 0 3 9 915 7 39 63 2,232
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 6 6 24 149
Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Outcome: Static and Dynamic Competitive Balance in European and North American Sports Leagues 0 0 2 219 0 2 11 604
Financial fair play in European football 2 10 37 731 6 33 149 1,975
First and Second Prizes in Imperfectly Discriminating Contests 0 0 0 146 0 1 7 368
Goal! Profit maximization and win maximization in football leagues 2 5 9 1,104 7 18 44 2,932
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 0 4 10 49
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 1 3 7 21
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 1 3 14 36
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 0 3 7 115
If you host it, where will they come from? Mega-Events and Tourism in South Africa 1 1 1 270 2 10 23 946
Insolvency in English professional football: Irrational Exuberance or Negative Shocks? 0 0 9 379 0 9 41 1,013
Insolvency in French Soccer 0 1 2 66 0 6 19 181
Introduction 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 10
Introduction 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 16
National Wellbeing and International Sports Events 1 4 9 1,095 3 13 47 3,507
On the Edge of Your Seat: Demand for Football on Television and the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis 0 1 2 823 0 9 39 2,025
Parallel Trade, International Exhaustion and Intellectual Property Rights: A Welfare Analysis 0 0 0 215 0 1 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 0 1 11 34
Privatization, Jobs and Wages 0 0 0 0 1 2 8 12
Quantifying the Intangible Impact of the Olympics Using Subjective Well-Being Data 0 0 0 37 0 6 17 109
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 0 0 5 14 62
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 2 46 1 8 22 149
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 0 0 4 11 30
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 38 0 6 18 70
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 20 1 4 17 60
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 13 0 7 11 36
Teaching competition in professional sports leagues 0 0 0 79 0 7 15 235
Teaching competition in professional sports leagues 0 0 0 361 2 4 19 1,168
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 29 0 3 14 129
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 22 3 8 17 153
The host with the most? The effects of the Olympic Games on happiness 0 0 0 10 0 4 10 121
The host with the most? The effects of the Olympic Games on happiness 0 0 0 82 1 7 17 261
The inefficient advantage of experience in the market for football managers 0 3 3 58 0 5 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 3 13 762
Tilting the Playing Field: Why a sports league planner would choose less, not more, competitive balance 0 0 1 382 0 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 10 1,321 0 9 45 2,909
Why Have Premium Sports Rights Migrated to Pay-TV in Europe but not in the US? 0 0 1 237 0 2 9 444
Total Working Papers 6 30 105 13,433 46 293 980 37,119


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A BARGAINING THEORY OF PRIVATISATION 0 0 0 10 0 2 11 46
A Law of Large Numbers: Bidding and Compulsory Competitive Tendering for Refuse Collection Contracts 0 0 3 56 0 3 16 180
A Market Test for Discrimination in the English Professional Soccer Leagues 0 2 6 414 0 5 23 1,152
ARE RESTRICTIONS OF COMPETITION BY SPORTS ASSOCIATIONS HORIZONTAL OR VERTICAL IN NATURE? 0 0 1 29 1 6 17 96
All Runs Are Created Equal: Labor Market Efficiency in Major League Baseball 0 0 1 13 0 2 12 50
Anticipating the honeymoon: Event study estimation of new stadium effects in Major League Baseball using the imputation method 0 0 0 4 0 4 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 7 84 1 9 63 264
Bad for Business? The Effects of Hooliganism on English Professional Football Clubs 1 3 5 180 1 14 33 827
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 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 1 12 22 756
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 1 3 7 306
Competitive balance and gate revenue sharing in team sports 0 1 4 546 7 36 56 1,453
Convergence versus the middle-income trap: the case of global soccer 2 2 3 12 2 10 25 76
Economics of Sport: Introduction 0 0 0 397 0 1 8 1,077
English Football 1 7 11 242 1 16 59 688
Entry into exit: insolvency in English professional football 1 1 8 49 1 4 21 127
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 3 74 0 7 28 261
Executive Pay and Performance: The Empirical Importance of the Participation Constraint 0 0 0 6 0 3 7 107
Fair is Foul: A Critical Analysis of UEFA Financial Fair Play 0 0 11 722 4 11 47 1,800
Financial fair play in European football 1 4 20 141 5 22 94 462
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 0 4 9 406
Goal! Profit Maximization Versus Win Maximization in Soccer 1 4 15 673 4 14 49 1,507
Incentive effects of second prizes 0 1 1 197 0 4 11 463
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 27 1,518
Insolvency in French Soccer 0 0 3 16 2 5 17 92
Making Hay While the Sun Shines 0 0 0 43 1 2 9 402
Making Money Out of Football 0 2 7 68 1 12 43 225
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 1 3 4 318 6 14 45 1,094
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 1 1 6 364 1 5 28 1,062
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 1 2 5 5 1 5 17 22
PARALLEL TRADE, INTERNATIONAL EXHAUSTION AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: A WELFARE ANALYSIS* 0 0 0 73 0 1 11 260
Parallel trade, price discrimination, investment and price caps 0 1 1 147 0 3 14 606
Professional Asian Football Leagues and the Global Market 0 1 5 27 2 8 21 82
Professional Team Sports Are Only a Game 0 0 2 14 0 7 21 55
Promotion and Relegation 0 1 2 241 0 2 13 565
Promotion and Relegation in Sporting Contests 0 1 7 155 2 8 27 464
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 4 32 0 6 25 188
Racial Discrimination in English football 0 0 2 9 1 7 18 55
Rational pricing strategies in the cross channel market 0 0 0 55 0 1 7 233
Regulation through comparative performance evaluation 0 0 0 36 0 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 0 1 19 0 4 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 1 174 0 3 10 465
Teaching Competition in Professional Sports Leagues 0 0 0 17 0 3 9 90
Testing Causality Between Team Performance and Payroll 0 0 4 123 1 11 41 388
Testing the O-Ring theory using data from the English Premier League 1 3 3 59 3 16 37 287
The Americanization of European football 1 2 7 35 2 6 37 131
The Assessment: The Economics of Sport 0 0 0 9 0 5 12 1,486
The Disappearing Relationship Between Directors' Pay and Corporate Performance 0 0 2 52 0 3 14 148
The Economic Design of Sporting Contests 1 9 22 198 4 28 118 1,958
The Economic Impact of the World Cup 6 8 34 3,499 13 24 129 9,048
The Economics of Sport: An International Perspective. By ROBERT SANDY, PETER J. SLOANE and MARK S. ROSENTRAUB 0 2 3 343 0 7 10 666
The English Football Industry: profit, performance and industrial structure 1 5 18 608 2 18 83 6,157
The Financial Crisis and English Football: The Dog That Will Not Bark 0 0 13 548 1 3 50 1,195
The Financial Crisis in European Football 0 1 11 36 1 4 32 86
The Market for Olympic Gold Medals 0 1 1 287 1 5 9 1,142
The Political Economy of Sport 0 1 7 251 3 8 39 1,294
The Private Benefit of Public Funding: The FIFA World Cup, UEFA European Championship, and Attendance at Host Country League Soccer 1 2 4 28 1 3 17 105
The Promotion Test 0 0 0 78 0 2 5 241
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 1 5 24 1,179
Tourism and the 2010 World Cup: Lessons for Developing Countries 0 1 4 171 0 6 23 420
Up for the Cup 0 0 0 71 0 1 7 219
Total Journal Articles 21 74 284 13,738 80 472 1,817 47,797


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Football Economics and Policy 0 0 0 2 7 22 62 177
The Comparative Economics of Sport 0 1 2 2 2 13 71 162
Total Books 0 1 2 4 9 35 133 339


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 2 3 12 16
Baseball Economics 0 1 2 17 0 2 8 87
Broadcasting, Attendance and the Inefficiency of Cartels 0 0 1 1 1 2 15 24
Competitive Balance and Gate Revenue Sharing in Team Sports 0 0 0 1 2 9 19 40
English Football 0 0 0 0 0 4 16 37
Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Outcome: Open Leagues, Closed Leagues and Competitive Balance 0 0 0 1 0 8 14 35
European and North American Sports Differences (?): A Quarter Century on 0 0 0 0 2 12 27 30
Football in England 0 0 0 35 5 8 14 209
Hearts, Minds and the Restrictive Practices Court 0 0 0 0 0 4 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 0 8 22 42
Insolvency in English football 0 0 1 28 1 3 11 82
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 0 1 2 18 0 3 7 35
New Stadiums in North America and Europe: A Comparison and Agenda for Future Research 0 0 0 0 0 1 16 22
Open Competition in League Sports 0 0 0 1 0 2 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 3 4 10
Promotion and Relegation in Sporting Contests 0 0 0 1 0 2 11 52
Revenue Sharing 0 0 0 8 0 6 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 0 1 4 43 0 4 16 114
The Americanization of European football 0 0 0 0 2 6 12 41
The Anglo-American Model of Sport 0 0 1 23 0 0 9 89
The Champions League and the Coase Theorem 0 0 0 0 0 4 10 32
The Economic Design of Sporting Contests 0 0 1 1 4 7 37 60
The Economic Impact of the World Cup 0 0 1 8 7 12 37 209
The Employment Effects of London 2012: An Assessment in Mid-2011 0 0 2 73 0 1 10 146
The English Football Industry: Profit, Performance and Industrial Structure 0 0 0 1 0 4 25 85
The Financial Crisis in European Football: An Introduction 0 0 1 2 3 10 27 68
The J. League and the World Cup 0 0 2 2 0 3 17 35
The Market for Soccer Players in England after Bosman: Winners and Losers 0 0 0 3 2 9 22 62
The Political Economy of Sport 0 0 0 1 2 5 21 57
The Promotion and Relegation System 0 0 0 85 0 4 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 8 75
Uncertainty of Outcome, Competitive Balance and the Theory of Team Sports 2 5 10 160 2 13 34 493
Wages, transfers and the variation of team performance in the English Premier League 2 2 20 416 4 7 52 807
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 10 28 86
Total Chapters 4 11 52 980 40 191 705 3,659


Statistics updated 2026-07-10