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A Law of Large numbers: Bidding and competitive tendering for refuse collection contracts 0 0 0 10 2 3 11 373
A Theory of the Evolution of Modern Sport 1 1 4 928 4 6 27 3,894
Are restrictions of competition by sports associations horizontal or vertical in nature? 0 1 1 154 0 3 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 0 1 9 916 2 17 71 2,242
Competitive balance in sports leagues and the paradox of power 0 0 0 902 2 2 17 2,636
Convergence vs. the middle income trap: The case of global soccer 0 0 0 47 3 12 30 155
Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Outcome: Static and Dynamic Competitive Balance in European and North American Sports Leagues 0 0 2 219 0 0 11 604
Financial fair play in European football 1 6 38 735 3 14 149 1,983
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 10 1,106 2 14 47 2,939
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 1 2 8 117
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 0 1 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 1 2 15 37
If you host it, where will they come from? Mega-Events and Tourism in South Africa 0 1 1 270 2 4 25 948
Insolvency in English professional football: Irrational Exuberance or Negative Shocks? 1 1 10 380 2 4 42 1,017
Insolvency in French Soccer 0 0 1 66 0 0 18 181
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 3 9 1,097 1 7 46 3,511
On the Edge of Your Seat: Demand for Football on Television and the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis 1 5 7 828 2 6 42 2,031
Parallel Trade, International Exhaustion and Intellectual Property Rights: A Welfare Analysis 0 0 0 331 1 1 5 1,210
Parallel Trade, International Exhaustion and Intellectual Property Rights: A Welfare Analysis 0 0 0 215 0 0 11 643
Privatisation, Liberalisation, Wages and Employment: Theory and Evidence for the UK 0 1 1 13 0 1 12 35
Privatization, Jobs and Wages 0 0 0 0 0 2 9 13
Quantifying the Intangible Impact of the Olympics Using Subjective Well-Being Data 0 0 0 37 0 0 16 109
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 20 0 1 16 60
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 0 2 2 13 32
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 62
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 38 1 1 18 71
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 13 0 0 11 36
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 2 46 0 1 20 149
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 2 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 22 0 3 17 153
The Host with the Most? The Effects of the Olympic Games on Happiness 0 0 0 49 1 1 27 366
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 10 0 0 10 121
The host with the most? The effects of the Olympic Games on happiness 0 0 0 82 1 2 18 262
The inefficient advantage of experience in the market for football managers 0 0 3 58 3 3 17 151
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 14 763
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 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 2 8 1,323 1 2 39 2,911
Why Have Premium Sports Rights Migrated to Pay-TV in Europe but not in the US? 0 0 1 237 1 2 11 446
Total Working Papers 8 26 111 13,453 39 124 1,006 37,197


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A BARGAINING THEORY OF PRIVATISATION 0 0 0 10 1 2 13 48
A Law of Large Numbers: Bidding and Compulsory Competitive Tendering for Refuse Collection Contracts 0 0 3 56 6 6 22 186
A Market Test for Discrimination in the English Professional Soccer Leagues 0 0 6 414 0 0 20 1,152
ARE RESTRICTIONS OF COMPETITION BY SPORTS ASSOCIATIONS HORIZONTAL OR VERTICAL IN NATURE? 0 1 1 30 0 4 17 99
All Runs Are Created Equal: Labor Market Efficiency in Major League Baseball 2 3 4 16 3 5 16 55
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 1 4 63 267
Bad for Business? The Effects of Hooliganism on English Professional Football Clubs 0 1 5 180 1 3 33 829
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 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 2 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 0 4 546 2 16 64 1,462
Convergence versus the middle-income trap: the case of global soccer 0 2 3 12 1 9 32 83
Economics of Sport: Introduction 0 0 0 397 0 0 7 1,077
English Football 1 2 12 243 3 9 64 696
Entry into exit: insolvency in English professional football 0 1 8 49 1 4 22 130
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 4 15 40 276
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 6 723 1 7 38 1,803
Financial fair play in European football 0 2 20 142 3 11 93 468
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 2 11 408
Goal! Profit Maximization Versus Win Maximization in Soccer 1 4 15 676 4 12 52 1,515
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 28 1,520
Insolvency in French Soccer 0 0 3 16 0 3 18 93
Making Hay While the Sun Shines 0 0 0 43 0 1 8 402
Making Money Out of Football 1 1 7 69 1 2 40 226
Microeconomic contributions to strategic management: J. Thepot and R.-A. Thietart, eds.,North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1991 0 0 0 56 1 1 6 220
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 1 4 318 4 13 50 1,101
ON THE OPTIMAL REALIGNMENT OF A CONTEST: THE CASE OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL 0 0 0 6 0 1 10 55
Olympic Games, Terrorism and their Impact on the London and Paris Stock Exchanges 0 0 0 46 1 1 13 212
On the Edge of Your Seat: Demand for Football on Television and the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis 2 6 11 369 5 12 36 1,073
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 2 3 20 67
On the efficiency of trading intangible fixed assets in Major League Baseball 1 2 6 6 1 3 19 24
PARALLEL TRADE, INTERNATIONAL EXHAUSTION AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: A WELFARE ANALYSIS* 0 0 0 73 1 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 1 3 22 83
Professional Team Sports Are Only a Game 0 0 2 14 1 3 24 58
Promotion and Relegation 0 0 2 241 25 25 37 590
Promotion and Relegation in Sporting Contests 1 2 8 157 3 11 33 473
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 3 32 1 1 24 189
Racial Discrimination in English football 1 2 3 11 1 3 19 57
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 2 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 6 283
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 2 3 13 468
Teaching Competition in Professional Sports Leagues 0 0 0 17 1 1 9 91
Testing Causality Between Team Performance and Payroll 1 3 7 126 1 6 46 393
Testing the O-Ring theory using data from the English Premier League 0 1 3 59 0 5 37 289
The Americanization of European football 2 4 9 38 4 9 42 138
The Assessment: The Economics of Sport 0 0 0 9 0 1 13 1,487
The Disappearing Relationship Between Directors' Pay and Corporate Performance 0 0 2 52 1 1 14 149
The Economic Design of Sporting Contests 1 2 21 199 5 15 125 1,969
The Economic Impact of the World Cup 0 9 36 3,502 6 25 133 9,060
The Economics of Sport: An International Perspective. By ROBERT SANDY, PETER J. SLOANE and MARK S. ROSENTRAUB 0 0 3 343 2 2 12 668
The English Football Industry: profit, performance and industrial structure 2 3 17 610 2 4 78 6,159
The Financial Crisis and English Football: The Dog That Will Not Bark 0 0 11 548 0 4 50 1,198
The Financial Crisis in European Football 0 1 11 37 1 4 31 89
The Market for Olympic Gold Medals 0 0 1 287 1 2 9 1,143
The Political Economy of Sport 0 0 7 251 0 4 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 3 28 0 2 16 106
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 1 22 1,179
Tourism and the 2010 World Cup: Lessons for Developing Countries 0 0 3 171 0 4 26 424
Up for the Cup 0 0 0 71 0 0 5 219
Total Journal Articles 16 56 291 13,773 110 303 1,928 48,020


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Football Economics and Policy 0 0 0 2 3 12 65 182
The Comparative Economics of Sport 0 0 2 2 1 5 73 165
Total Books 0 0 2 4 4 17 138 347


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 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 1 3 13 17
Baseball Economics 0 0 1 17 0 0 5 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 2 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 4 5 18 40
European and North American Sports Differences (?): A Quarter Century on 0 0 0 0 1 5 29 33
Football in England 0 0 0 35 0 5 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 14 14 66 68
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 21 42
Insolvency in English football 0 0 1 28 0 1 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 0 2 18 1 1 8 36
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 1 4 10
Promotion and Relegation in Sporting Contests 0 0 0 1 0 1 12 53
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 0 2 11 41
The Anglo-American Model of Sport 1 1 2 24 1 1 8 90
The Champions League and the Coase Theorem 1 1 1 1 26 26 36 58
The Economic Design of Sporting Contests 0 0 1 1 0 5 36 61
The Economic Impact of the World Cup 0 0 1 8 15 23 52 225
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 1 1 24 86
The Financial Crisis in European Football: An Introduction 0 0 1 2 24 27 49 92
The J. League and the World Cup 0 0 2 2 1 3 20 38
The Market for Soccer Players in England after Bosman: Winners and Losers 0 0 0 3 0 2 21 62
The Political Economy of Sport 0 0 0 1 0 4 22 59
The Promotion and Relegation System 0 1 1 86 0 4 22 228
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 3 3 11 78
Uncertainty of Outcome, Competitive Balance and the Theory of Team Sports 2 4 12 162 3 6 37 497
Wages, transfers and the variation of team performance in the English Premier League 0 3 19 417 3 10 55 813
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 6 6 31 92
Total Chapters 4 10 55 986 105 165 792 3,784


Statistics updated 2026-09-10