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A Law of Large numbers: Bidding and competitive tendering for refuse collection contracts 0 0 0 10 1 4 6 368
A Theory of the Evolution of Modern Sport 0 0 4 926 1 8 21 3,880
Are restrictions of competition by sports associations horizontal or vertical in nature? 0 0 0 153 2 8 12 436
Competitive Balance and Income Redistribution in Team Sports 0 3 3 798 0 7 9 1,171
Competitive balance and gate revenue sharing in team sports 1 1 6 912 7 15 24 2,192
Competitive balance in sports leagues and the paradox of power 0 0 0 902 1 10 15 2,633
Convergence vs. the middle income trap: The case of global soccer 0 0 0 47 1 10 20 141
Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Outcome: Static and Dynamic Competitive Balance in European and North American Sports Leagues 1 2 2 219 3 8 12 602
Financial fair play in European football 5 7 24 713 15 46 115 1,922
First and Second Prizes in Imperfectly Discriminating Contests 0 0 0 146 1 4 6 366
Goal! Profit maximization and win maximization in football leagues 0 2 4 1,098 2 15 28 2,909
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 0 9 10 32
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 2 2 6 44
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 18
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 3 11 18 936
Insolvency in English professional football: Irrational Exuberance or Negative Shocks? 1 4 12 377 4 17 39 999
Insolvency in French Soccer 0 0 1 65 4 8 14 175
Introduction 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 7
Introduction 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 14
National Wellbeing and International Sports Events 0 1 4 1,090 4 17 32 3,491
On the Edge of Your Seat: Demand for Football on Television and the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis 1 1 3 822 2 15 35 2,013
Parallel Trade, International Exhaustion and Intellectual Property Rights: A Welfare Analysis 0 0 0 215 2 8 10 641
Parallel Trade, International Exhaustion and Intellectual Property Rights: A Welfare Analysis 0 0 0 331 1 3 4 1,209
Privatisation, Liberalisation, Wages and Employment: Theory and Evidence for the UK 0 0 0 12 0 8 11 33
Privatization, Jobs and Wages 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 10
Quantifying the Intangible Impact of the Olympics Using Subjective Well-Being Data 0 0 1 37 2 6 10 101
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 0 1 6 7 25
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 38 3 7 11 63
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 1 2 46 1 4 18 136
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 0 1 5 10 56
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 20 0 8 12 55
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 13 0 3 5 29
Teaching competition in professional sports leagues 0 0 0 361 0 9 24 1,164
Teaching competition in professional sports leagues 0 0 0 79 1 6 7 227
The Champions League and the Coase Theorem 0 0 0 950 3 15 16 2,022
The Host with the Most? The Effects of the Olympic Games on Happiness 0 0 0 29 1 7 11 126
The Host with the Most? The Effects of the Olympic Games on Happiness 0 0 0 22 1 5 11 144
The Host with the Most? The Effects of the Olympic Games on Happiness 0 0 0 49 2 11 18 357
The host with the most? The effects of the Olympic Games on happiness 0 0 0 10 1 3 8 117
The host with the most? The effects of the Olympic Games on happiness 0 0 0 82 1 6 10 253
The inefficient advantage of experience in the market for football managers 0 0 1 55 1 6 11 142
Tilting the Playing Field (Why a sports league planner would choose less, not more, competitive balance): The case of English Football 1 1 3 356 1 3 13 759
Tilting the Playing Field: Why a sports league planner would choose less, not more, competitive balance 0 0 1 382 2 7 13 816
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 1 4 4 213
Vertical restraints in soccer: Financial fair play and the English Premier League 2 2 10 1,319 5 12 49 2,898
Why Have Premium Sports Rights Migrated to Pay-TV in Europe but not in the US? 0 1 1 237 0 4 6 441
Total Working Papers 12 26 82 13,390 84 380 740 36,757


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A BARGAINING THEORY OF PRIVATISATION 0 0 1 10 2 6 9 43
A Law of Large Numbers: Bidding and Compulsory Competitive Tendering for Refuse Collection Contracts 1 1 3 56 3 6 8 172
A Market Test for Discrimination in the English Professional Soccer Leagues 0 3 6 412 0 7 17 1,144
ARE RESTRICTIONS OF COMPETITION BY SPORTS ASSOCIATIONS HORIZONTAL OR VERTICAL IN NATURE? 0 0 5 29 1 5 16 90
All Runs Are Created Equal: Labor Market Efficiency in Major League Baseball 0 0 6 13 0 3 16 48
Anticipating the honeymoon: Event study estimation of new stadium effects in Major League Baseball using the imputation method 0 0 0 4 2 5 8 18
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 2 4 8 82 3 39 58 251
Bad for Business? The Effects of Hooliganism on English Professional Football Clubs 0 0 5 176 4 11 25 810
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 6 8 17
Broadcasting, Attendance and the Inefficiency of Cartels 0 1 1 349 1 8 10 743
CCT: a clean solution?: Compulsory tendering may save local government, not destroy it 0 0 0 6 1 6 8 48
Cheap rubbish? Competitive tendering and contracting out in refuse collection, 1981-88 0 0 0 0 0 4 5 303
Competitive balance and gate revenue sharing in team sports 1 1 2 544 2 10 22 1,415
Convergence versus the middle-income trap: the case of global soccer 0 0 1 10 2 12 16 66
Economics of Sport: Introduction 0 0 0 397 0 3 8 1,076
English Football 0 2 9 234 7 23 58 664
Entry into exit: insolvency in English professional football 1 5 11 48 6 11 26 121
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 1 8 73 5 10 27 251
Executive Pay and Performance: The Empirical Importance of the Participation Constraint 0 0 0 6 0 4 4 104
Fair is Foul: A Critical Analysis of UEFA Financial Fair Play 1 1 26 721 2 7 62 1,785
Financial fair play in European football 3 5 18 133 11 26 74 427
From the Olympics to the grassroots: What will London 2012 mean for sport funding and participation in Britain? 0 0 2 122 0 5 10 346
GOVERNANCE AND VERTICAL INTEGRATION IN TEAM SPORTS 0 0 0 104 1 2 6 401
Goal! Profit Maximization Versus Win Maximization in Soccer 1 4 13 667 4 14 37 1,484
Incentive effects of second prizes 0 0 6 196 0 6 16 459
Income Inequality, Competitive Balance and the Attractiveness of Team Sports: Some Evidence and a Natural Experiment from English Soccer 0 0 0 490 3 12 18 1,507
Insolvency in French Soccer 0 1 4 16 0 6 13 86
Making Hay While the Sun Shines 0 0 0 43 2 6 8 400
Making Money Out of Football 0 1 8 65 2 14 39 210
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 3 6 255
National well-being and international sports events 0 1 4 315 10 22 38 1,078
ON THE OPTIMAL REALIGNMENT OF A CONTEST: THE CASE OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL 0 0 0 6 1 4 6 50
Olympic Games, Terrorism and their Impact on the London and Paris Stock Exchanges 0 0 0 46 2 7 10 208
On the Edge of Your Seat: Demand for Football on Television and the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis 1 3 9 362 1 12 33 1,056
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 8 18 64
On the efficiency of trading intangible fixed assets in Major League Baseball 0 1 2 2 1 7 15 15
PARALLEL TRADE, INTERNATIONAL EXHAUSTION AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: A WELFARE ANALYSIS* 0 0 0 73 1 6 9 258
Parallel trade, price discrimination, investment and price caps 0 0 1 146 2 7 11 602
Professional Asian Football Leagues and the Global Market 1 1 2 24 2 9 12 72
Professional Team Sports Are Only a Game 0 0 2 14 3 8 13 47
Promotion and Relegation 0 0 0 239 1 8 12 561
Promotion and Relegation in Sporting Contests 0 2 6 154 3 10 28 456
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 6 31 3 9 24 178
Racial Discrimination in English football 0 0 1 8 1 5 9 45
Rational pricing strategies in the cross channel market 0 0 0 55 2 5 5 231
Regulation through comparative performance evaluation 0 0 1 36 0 8 13 119
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 0 4 5 70
Some Observations on Fort and Winfree “Nash Conjectures and Talent Supply in Sports League Modeling 0 0 0 17 2 4 6 87
Spatial dependence through local yardstick competition:: theory and testing 0 0 0 127 1 3 7 282
Strategic delegation with endogenous costs: A duopoly with wage bargaining 0 0 1 72 0 1 3 167
THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE AND THE COASE THEOREM 0 0 3 174 1 5 10 462
Teaching Competition in Professional Sports Leagues 0 0 0 17 0 1 8 87
Testing Causality Between Team Performance and Payroll 0 3 6 123 6 17 29 371
Testing the O-Ring theory using data from the English Premier League 0 0 1 56 1 9 24 267
The Americanization of European football 0 2 8 33 3 19 33 121
The Assessment: The Economics of Sport 0 0 0 9 0 1 6 1,478
The Disappearing Relationship Between Directors' Pay and Corporate Performance 0 1 4 52 0 6 13 145
The Economic Design of Sporting Contests 0 4 14 186 11 65 91 1,921
The Economic Impact of the World Cup 6 12 50 3,489 15 51 152 9,016
The Economics of Sport: An International Perspective. By ROBERT SANDY, PETER J. SLOANE and MARK S. ROSENTRAUB 0 0 1 341 1 1 3 659
The English Football Industry: profit, performance and industrial structure 1 3 14 602 9 35 68 6,134
The Financial Crisis and English Football: The Dog That Will Not Bark 0 9 15 547 3 27 51 1,187
The Financial Crisis in European Football 2 7 15 35 2 15 33 80
The Market for Olympic Gold Medals 0 0 2 286 1 3 6 1,137
The Political Economy of Sport 1 3 5 249 8 21 29 1,284
The Private Benefit of Public Funding: The FIFA World Cup, UEFA European Championship, and Attendance at Host Country League Soccer 0 0 3 26 0 4 15 101
The Promotion Test 0 0 0 78 1 2 4 239
The Survival of Mediocre Superstars in the Labor Market 0 0 0 4 2 8 13 28
The impact of compulsory competitive tendering on refuse collection services 0 0 2 177 1 3 34 1,172
Tourism and the 2010 World Cup: Lessons for Developing Countries 0 0 4 169 3 9 18 412
Up for the Cup 0 0 0 71 0 4 6 218
Total Journal Articles 23 82 326 13,634 168 737 1,568 47,182


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Football Economics and Policy 0 0 0 2 4 23 43 153
The Comparative Economics of Sport 0 0 1 1 5 36 66 143
Total Books 0 0 1 3 9 59 109 296


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 8 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 0 6 8 12
Baseball Economics 0 0 2 16 0 2 7 85
Broadcasting, Attendance and the Inefficiency of Cartels 0 0 0 0 1 3 11 19
Competitive Balance and Gate Revenue Sharing in Team Sports 0 0 0 1 0 3 8 29
English Football 0 0 0 0 0 6 10 31
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 9 16 17
Football in England 0 0 0 35 1 3 7 201
Hearts, Minds and the Restrictive Practices Court 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2
Incentive effects of second prizes 0 0 0 0 1 42 48 49
Income Inequality, Competitive Balance and the Attractiveness of Team Sports: Some Evidence and a Natural Experiment from English Soccer 0 0 0 0 1 8 17 34
Insolvency in English football 1 1 2 28 2 4 10 77
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 1 6 32
New Stadiums in North America and Europe: A Comparison and Agenda for Future Research 0 0 0 0 0 7 13 19
Open Competition in League Sports 0 0 0 1 3 7 10 25
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 0 3 11 49
Revenue Sharing 0 0 0 8 0 1 3 44
Seizing the Moment: A Blueprint for Reform of World Cricket 0 0 0 0 1 4 6 15
Sport Financing and Governance in Europe 0 0 2 41 0 5 10 107
The Americanization of European football 0 0 0 0 1 4 8 35
The Anglo-American Model of Sport 0 1 1 23 0 5 8 88
The Champions League and the Coase Theorem 0 0 0 0 1 3 6 26
The Economic Design of Sporting Contests 0 1 1 1 1 21 24 47
The Economic Impact of the World Cup 0 0 1 8 4 11 41 194
The Employment Effects of London 2012: An Assessment in Mid-2011 1 1 1 72 2 7 10 144
The English Football Industry: Profit, Performance and Industrial Structure 0 0 0 1 2 12 21 79
The Financial Crisis in European Football: An Introduction 0 1 1 2 2 11 19 57
The J. League and the World Cup 0 2 2 2 1 8 14 31
The Market for Soccer Players in England after Bosman: Winners and Losers 0 0 0 3 1 6 17 50
The Political Economy of Sport 0 0 0 1 3 8 19 49
The Promotion and Relegation System 0 0 3 85 0 10 20 219
The Sporting Exception and the Legality of Restraints in the US 0 0 0 4 1 6 6 27
The Theory of Tournaments 1 2 4 35 4 6 11 74
Uncertainty of Outcome, Competitive Balance and the Theory of Team Sports 1 4 10 155 4 13 35 477
Wages, transfers and the variation of team performance in the English Premier League 2 4 16 410 6 24 48 795
Why Have Premium Sports Rights Migrated to Pay TV in Europe But Not in the US? 0 0 0 3 2 6 8 23
“Form is temporary, class is permanentâ€: an English Premier League analysis 1 1 1 8 4 6 21 73
Total Chapters 7 18 49 962 53 295 568 3,411


Statistics updated 2026-03-04