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A Law of Large numbers: Bidding and competitive tendering for refuse collection contracts 0 0 0 10 1 2 2 364
A Theory of the Evolution of Modern Sport 0 2 8 926 2 5 22 3,872
Are restrictions of competition by sports associations horizontal or vertical in nature? 0 0 1 153 1 2 8 428
Competitive Balance and Income Redistribution in Team Sports 0 0 0 795 0 0 2 1,164
Competitive balance and gate revenue sharing in team sports 2 4 5 911 4 6 12 2,177
Competitive balance in sports leagues and the paradox of power 0 0 1 902 3 4 9 2,623
Convergence vs. the middle income trap: The case of global soccer 0 0 1 47 4 6 12 131
Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Outcome: Static and Dynamic Competitive Balance in European and North American Sports Leagues 0 0 0 217 0 1 7 594
Financial fair play in European football 3 9 22 706 21 42 79 1,876
First and Second Prizes in Imperfectly Discriminating Contests 0 0 0 146 1 1 2 362
Goal! Profit maximization and win maximization in football leagues 0 0 2 1,096 2 2 16 2,894
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 17
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 112
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 23
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 2 2 4 42
If you host it, where will they come from? Mega-Events and Tourism in South Africa 0 0 1 269 0 2 13 925
Insolvency in English professional football: Irrational Exuberance or Negative Shocks? 0 3 10 373 0 7 30 982
Insolvency in French Soccer 0 0 2 65 3 4 7 167
Introduction 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 5
Introduction 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 13
National Wellbeing and International Sports Events 0 1 4 1,089 5 9 19 3,474
On the Edge of Your Seat: Demand for Football on Television and the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis 0 0 6 821 8 9 30 1,998
Parallel Trade, International Exhaustion and Intellectual Property Rights: A Welfare Analysis 0 0 0 215 0 1 2 633
Parallel Trade, International Exhaustion and Intellectual Property Rights: A Welfare Analysis 0 0 0 331 1 1 1 1,206
Privatisation, Liberalisation, Wages and Employment: Theory and Evidence for the UK 0 0 1 12 1 2 5 25
Privatization, Jobs and Wages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
Quantifying the Intangible Impact of the Olympics Using Subjective Well-Being Data 0 0 1 37 0 2 7 95
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 19
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 1 1 45 0 3 16 132
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 20 3 3 6 47
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 0 1 2 6 51
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 13 1 1 3 26
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 38 2 3 4 56
Teaching competition in professional sports leagues 0 0 0 79 0 1 2 221
Teaching competition in professional sports leagues 0 0 0 361 5 6 16 1,155
The Champions League and the Coase Theorem 0 0 0 950 1 1 3 2,007
The Host with the Most? The Effects of the Olympic Games on Happiness 0 0 0 29 2 3 4 119
The Host with the Most? The Effects of the Olympic Games on Happiness 0 0 0 49 6 7 10 346
The Host with the Most? The Effects of the Olympic Games on Happiness 0 0 0 22 1 3 7 139
The host with the most? The effects of the Olympic Games on happiness 0 0 1 82 3 3 5 247
The host with the most? The effects of the Olympic Games on happiness 0 0 0 10 3 3 8 114
The inefficient advantage of experience in the market for football managers 0 0 2 55 1 2 10 136
Tilting the Playing Field (Why a sports league planner would choose less, not more, competitive balance): The case of English Football 0 0 2 355 4 7 10 756
Tilting the Playing Field: Why a sports league planner would choose less, not more, competitive balance 0 0 1 382 2 3 6 809
Transatlantic Sport: An Introduction 0 0 0 99 1 1 2 259
Two recent cases relating to broadcasting and football in England 0 0 0 101 0 0 0 209
Vertical restraints in soccer: Financial fair play and the English Premier League 2 2 13 1,317 8 14 49 2,886
Why Have Premium Sports Rights Migrated to Pay-TV in Europe but not in the US? 0 0 0 236 2 2 3 437
Total Working Papers 7 22 85 13,364 110 186 470 36,377


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A BARGAINING THEORY OF PRIVATISATION 0 0 1 10 2 2 3 37
A Law of Large Numbers: Bidding and Compulsory Competitive Tendering for Refuse Collection Contracts 1 2 2 55 1 2 2 166
A Market Test for Discrimination in the English Professional Soccer Leagues 0 1 3 409 0 5 12 1,137
ARE RESTRICTIONS OF COMPETITION BY SPORTS ASSOCIATIONS HORIZONTAL OR VERTICAL IN NATURE? 0 0 5 29 1 3 12 85
All Runs Are Created Equal: Labor Market Efficiency in Major League Baseball 0 1 6 13 0 6 15 45
Anticipating the honeymoon: Event study estimation of new stadium effects in Major League Baseball using the imputation method 0 0 0 4 1 1 3 13
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 12 78 3 8 29 212
Bad for Business? The Effects of Hooliganism on English Professional Football Clubs 0 1 8 176 0 3 24 799
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 2 54
Book Review: The Economics of Sports, The Economics of Professional Team Sports 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 11
Broadcasting, Attendance and the Inefficiency of Cartels 0 0 0 348 1 1 3 735
CCT: a clean solution?: Compulsory tendering may save local government, not destroy it 0 0 0 6 1 1 3 42
Cheap rubbish? Competitive tendering and contracting out in refuse collection, 1981-88 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 299
Competitive balance and gate revenue sharing in team sports 0 1 5 543 4 7 58 1,405
Convergence versus the middle-income trap: the case of global soccer 0 1 1 10 2 3 4 54
Economics of Sport: Introduction 0 0 0 397 0 3 6 1,073
English Football 1 1 13 232 5 9 51 641
Entry into exit: insolvency in English professional football 0 2 6 43 0 2 16 110
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 10 72 2 5 23 241
Executive Pay and Performance: The Empirical Importance of the Participation Constraint 0 0 0 6 0 0 1 100
Fair is Foul: A Critical Analysis of UEFA Financial Fair Play 0 3 45 720 6 13 95 1,778
Financial fair play in European football 4 6 17 128 15 26 58 401
From the Olympics to the grassroots: What will London 2012 mean for sport funding and participation in Britain? 0 0 2 122 1 3 5 341
GOVERNANCE AND VERTICAL INTEGRATION IN TEAM SPORTS 0 0 0 104 1 2 7 399
Goal! Profit Maximization Versus Win Maximization in Soccer 0 2 9 663 4 7 25 1,470
Incentive effects of second prizes 0 0 6 196 1 1 11 453
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 13 1,495
Insolvency in French Soccer 2 2 3 15 4 5 8 80
Making Hay While the Sun Shines 0 0 0 43 0 0 2 394
Making Money Out of Football 1 2 8 64 2 10 30 196
Microeconomic contributions to strategic management: J. Thepot and R.-A. Thietart, eds.,North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1991 0 0 0 56 0 1 1 215
Modelling the spatial impact of the introduction of Compulsory Competitive Tendering 0 0 0 66 1 2 3 252
National well-being and international sports events 0 0 5 314 1 5 23 1,056
ON THE OPTIMAL REALIGNMENT OF A CONTEST: THE CASE OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL 0 0 0 6 1 1 2 46
Olympic Games, Terrorism and their Impact on the London and Paris Stock Exchanges 0 0 0 46 0 2 3 201
On the Edge of Your Seat: Demand for Football on Television and the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis 0 1 9 359 3 7 34 1,044
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 6 9 11 56
PARALLEL TRADE, INTERNATIONAL EXHAUSTION AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: A WELFARE ANALYSIS* 0 0 0 73 1 3 3 252
Parallel trade, price discrimination, investment and price caps 0 0 1 146 3 3 4 595
Professional Asian Football Leagues and the Global Market 1 1 2 23 2 2 4 63
Professional Team Sports Are Only a Game 2 2 3 14 3 5 7 39
Promotion and Relegation 0 0 1 239 0 0 5 553
Promotion and Relegation in Sporting Contests 2 3 5 152 4 6 21 446
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 1 2 6 31 2 4 22 169
Racial Discrimination in English football 0 0 2 8 2 2 8 40
Rational pricing strategies in the cross channel market 0 0 0 55 0 0 0 226
Regulation through comparative performance evaluation 0 0 1 36 1 3 5 111
Reply: "Professional Team Sports Are Only a Game: The Walrasian Fixed-Supply Conjecture Model, Contest-Nash Equilibrium, and the Invariance Principle" 0 0 0 18 1 1 1 66
Some Observations on Fort and Winfree “Nash Conjectures and Talent Supply in Sports League Modeling 0 0 0 17 1 2 3 83
Spatial dependence through local yardstick competition:: theory and testing 0 0 0 127 0 2 6 279
Strategic delegation with endogenous costs: A duopoly with wage bargaining 0 0 1 72 0 1 2 166
THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE AND THE COASE THEOREM 0 1 4 174 0 2 7 457
Teaching Competition in Professional Sports Leagues 0 0 0 17 0 4 7 86
Testing Causality Between Team Performance and Payroll 0 1 3 120 1 7 13 354
Testing the O-Ring theory using data from the English Premier League 0 0 1 56 3 6 21 258
The Americanization of European football 1 2 6 31 4 6 16 102
The Assessment: The Economics of Sport 0 0 0 9 3 3 8 1,477
The Disappearing Relationship Between Directors' Pay and Corporate Performance 0 1 3 51 1 4 8 139
The Economic Design of Sporting Contests 3 4 12 182 8 12 34 1,856
The Economic Impact of the World Cup 8 11 43 3,477 20 38 114 8,965
The Economics of Sport: An International Perspective. By ROBERT SANDY, PETER J. SLOANE and MARK S. ROSENTRAUB 0 1 1 341 1 2 3 658
The English Football Industry: profit, performance and industrial structure 2 6 18 599 6 18 54 6,099
The Financial Crisis and English Football: The Dog That Will Not Bark 0 1 6 538 2 12 26 1,160
The Financial Crisis in European Football 0 2 8 28 2 7 20 65
The Market for Olympic Gold Medals 0 0 2 286 0 0 7 1,134
The Political Economy of Sport 1 2 2 246 4 8 11 1,263
The Private Benefit of Public Funding: The FIFA World Cup, UEFA European Championship, and Attendance at Host Country League Soccer 1 1 4 26 3 7 14 97
The Promotion Test 0 0 1 78 1 1 3 237
The Survival of Mediocre Superstars in the Labor Market 0 0 0 4 1 1 7 20
The impact of compulsory competitive tendering on refuse collection services 0 0 3 177 1 12 32 1,169
Tourism and the 2010 World Cup: Lessons for Developing Countries 1 1 9 169 3 5 17 403
Up for the Cup 0 0 0 71 0 0 2 214
Total Journal Articles 32 69 325 13,551 156 350 1,117 46,437


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Football Economics and Policy 0 0 1 2 10 13 31 130
The Comparative Economics of Sport 1 1 1 1 9 15 41 107
Total Books 1 1 2 3 19 28 72 237


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Market Test for Discrimination in the English Professional Soccer Leagues 0 0 0 0 3 4 6 27
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 2 3 6
Baseball Economics 0 0 3 16 1 1 6 83
Broadcasting, Attendance and the Inefficiency of Cartels 0 0 0 0 2 7 9 16
Competitive Balance and Gate Revenue Sharing in Team Sports 0 0 0 1 3 3 7 26
English Football 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 25
Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Outcome: Open Leagues, Closed Leagues and Competitive Balance 0 0 0 1 2 3 8 25
Football in England 0 0 1 35 2 3 5 198
Hearts, Minds and the Restrictive Practices Court 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
Income Inequality, Competitive Balance and the Attractiveness of Team Sports: Some Evidence and a Natural Experiment from English Soccer 0 0 0 0 2 5 9 26
Insolvency in English football 0 0 1 27 0 2 6 73
Is there evidence of softness in the budget constraint in football? Some evidence from English clubs 0 1 2 17 1 3 6 31
New Stadiums in North America and Europe: A Comparison and Agenda for Future Research 0 0 0 0 4 5 6 12
Open Competition in League Sports 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 18
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 1 1 7
Promotion and Relegation in Sporting Contests 0 0 0 1 3 5 8 46
Revenue Sharing 0 0 0 8 1 1 2 43
Seizing the Moment: A Blueprint for Reform of World Cricket 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 11
Sport Financing and Governance in Europe 1 2 4 41 1 3 7 102
The Americanization of European football 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 31
The Anglo-American Model of Sport 0 0 0 22 0 1 3 83
The Champions League and the Coase Theorem 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 23
The Economic Design of Sporting Contests 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 26
The Economic Impact of the World Cup 1 1 1 8 5 10 38 183
The Employment Effects of London 2012: An Assessment in Mid-2011 0 0 2 71 0 0 7 137
The English Football Industry: Profit, Performance and Industrial Structure 0 0 0 1 3 5 12 67
The Financial Crisis in European Football: An Introduction 0 0 0 1 1 3 11 46
The J. League and the World Cup 0 0 0 0 1 5 6 23
The Market for Soccer Players in England after Bosman: Winners and Losers 0 0 0 3 1 3 14 44
The Political Economy of Sport 0 0 0 1 4 4 17 41
The Promotion and Relegation System 0 0 6 85 2 3 13 209
The Sporting Exception and the Legality of Restraints in the US 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 21
The Theory of Tournaments 0 0 2 33 0 1 6 68
Uncertainty of Outcome, Competitive Balance and the Theory of Team Sports 1 1 11 151 1 4 33 464
Wages, transfers and the variation of team performance in the English Premier League 5 8 16 406 8 13 33 771
Why Have Premium Sports Rights Migrated to Pay TV in Europe But Not in the US? 0 0 0 3 1 1 2 17
“Form is temporary, class is permanentâ€: an English Premier League analysis 0 0 2 7 2 6 23 67
Total Chapters 8 13 51 944 62 114 330 3,097


Statistics updated 2025-12-06