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A Law of Large numbers: Bidding and competitive tendering for refuse collection contracts 0 0 0 10 2 3 8 370
A Theory of the Evolution of Modern Sport 0 1 4 927 3 8 26 3,887
Are restrictions of competition by sports associations horizontal or vertical in nature? 0 0 0 153 4 9 19 443
Competitive Balance and Income Redistribution in Team Sports 0 0 3 798 1 1 9 1,172
Competitive balance and gate revenue sharing in team sports 2 3 8 914 18 26 42 2,211
Competitive balance in sports leagues and the paradox of power 0 0 0 902 0 2 15 2,634
Convergence vs. the middle income trap: The case of global soccer 0 0 0 47 0 3 20 143
Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Outcome: Static and Dynamic Competitive Balance in European and North American Sports Leagues 0 1 2 219 1 4 10 603
Financial fair play in European football 4 17 34 725 14 49 142 1,956
First and Second Prizes in Imperfectly Discriminating Contests 0 0 0 146 1 3 7 368
Goal! Profit maximization and win maximization in football leagues 3 4 8 1,102 9 16 39 2,923
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 113
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 2 2 6 20
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 4 7 11 49
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 1 2 12 34
If you host it, where will they come from? Mega-Events and Tourism in South Africa 0 0 0 269 8 11 21 944
Insolvency in English professional football: Irrational Exuberance or Negative Shocks? 0 3 11 379 4 13 43 1,008
Insolvency in French Soccer 0 0 1 65 4 8 17 179
Introduction 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 16
Introduction 0 0 0 0 3 3 6 10
National Wellbeing and International Sports Events 1 2 6 1,092 4 11 39 3,498
On the Edge of Your Seat: Demand for Football on Television and the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis 1 2 3 823 9 14 43 2,025
Parallel Trade, International Exhaustion and Intellectual Property Rights: A Welfare Analysis 0 0 0 215 1 4 11 643
Parallel Trade, International Exhaustion and Intellectual Property Rights: A Welfare Analysis 0 0 0 331 0 1 4 1,209
Privatisation, Liberalisation, Wages and Employment: Theory and Evidence for the UK 0 0 0 12 0 0 11 33
Privatization, Jobs and Wages 0 0 0 0 1 1 7 11
Quantifying the Intangible Impact of the Olympics Using Subjective Well-Being Data 0 0 0 37 5 9 16 108
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 0 2 4 9 28
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 0 4 6 14 61
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 2 46 7 13 23 148
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 13 6 6 11 35
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 38 5 9 17 69
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 20 2 3 15 58
Teaching competition in professional sports leagues 0 0 0 361 1 1 23 1,165
Teaching competition in professional sports leagues 0 0 0 79 7 9 15 235
The Champions League and the Coase Theorem 0 0 0 950 1 4 17 2,023
The Host with the Most? The Effects of the Olympic Games on Happiness 0 0 0 49 8 10 26 365
The Host with the Most? The Effects of the Olympic Games on Happiness 0 0 0 29 0 1 11 126
The Host with the Most? The Effects of the Olympic Games on Happiness 0 0 0 22 5 7 15 150
The host with the most? The effects of the Olympic Games on happiness 0 0 0 82 3 5 13 257
The host with the most? The effects of the Olympic Games on happiness 0 0 0 10 3 4 9 120
The inefficient advantage of experience in the market for football managers 2 2 2 57 4 6 15 147
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 1 2 13 760
Tilting the Playing Field: Why a sports league planner would choose less, not more, competitive balance 0 0 1 382 3 5 14 819
Transatlantic Sport: An Introduction 0 0 0 99 1 1 2 260
Two recent cases relating to broadcasting and football in England 0 0 0 101 4 5 8 217
Vertical restraints in soccer: Financial fair play and the English Premier League 2 4 12 1,321 8 15 52 2,908
Why Have Premium Sports Rights Migrated to Pay-TV in Europe but not in the US? 0 0 1 237 1 2 8 443
Total Working Papers 15 40 101 13,418 178 331 922 37,004


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A BARGAINING THEORY OF PRIVATISATION 0 0 1 10 1 4 11 45
A Law of Large Numbers: Bidding and Compulsory Competitive Tendering for Refuse Collection Contracts 0 1 3 56 2 10 15 179
A Market Test for Discrimination in the English Professional Soccer Leagues 2 2 6 414 4 7 22 1,151
ARE RESTRICTIONS OF COMPETITION BY SPORTS ASSOCIATIONS HORIZONTAL OR VERTICAL IN NATURE? 0 0 2 29 5 6 17 95
All Runs Are Created Equal: Labor Market Efficiency in Major League Baseball 0 0 3 13 0 0 12 48
Anticipating the honeymoon: Event study estimation of new stadium effects in Major League Baseball using the imputation method 0 0 0 4 3 6 12 22
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 3 6 83 3 10 59 258
Bad for Business? The Effects of Hooliganism on English Professional Football Clubs 0 1 2 177 5 12 26 818
Beaten in the race for the ball: Black footballers get paid less than they are worth, and football suffers 0 0 0 17 1 1 4 56
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 1 1 2 350 8 10 18 752
CCT: a clean solution?: Compulsory tendering may save local government, not destroy it 0 0 0 6 1 2 9 49
Cheap rubbish? Competitive tendering and contracting out in refuse collection, 1981-88 0 0 0 0 2 2 6 305
Competitive balance and gate revenue sharing in team sports 0 2 3 545 21 25 43 1,438
Convergence versus the middle-income trap: the case of global soccer 0 0 1 10 6 8 21 72
Economics of Sport: Introduction 0 0 0 397 1 1 8 1,077
English Football 6 7 11 241 12 27 71 684
Entry into exit: insolvency in English professional football 0 1 10 48 2 10 26 125
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 2 4 74 5 13 28 259
Executive Pay and Performance: The Empirical Importance of the Participation Constraint 0 0 0 6 2 2 6 106
Fair is Foul: A Critical Analysis of UEFA Financial Fair Play 0 2 17 722 2 8 50 1,791
Financial fair play in European football 1 8 22 138 8 32 90 448
From the Olympics to the grassroots: What will London 2012 mean for sport funding and participation in Britain? 0 0 1 122 0 2 11 348
GOVERNANCE AND VERTICAL INTEGRATION IN TEAM SPORTS 0 0 0 104 2 4 8 404
Goal! Profit Maximization Versus Win Maximization in Soccer 3 6 16 672 9 22 50 1,502
Incentive effects of second prizes 0 0 3 196 2 2 13 461
Income Inequality, Competitive Balance and the Attractiveness of Team Sports: Some Evidence and a Natural Experiment from English Soccer 0 0 0 490 7 11 25 1,515
Insolvency in French Soccer 0 0 3 16 2 3 15 89
Making Hay While the Sun Shines 0 0 0 43 1 3 8 401
Making Money Out of Football 1 2 8 67 6 11 43 219
Microeconomic contributions to strategic management: J. Thepot and R.-A. Thietart, eds.,North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1991 0 0 0 56 1 1 5 219
Modelling the spatial impact of the introduction of Compulsory Competitive Tendering 0 0 0 66 2 2 8 257
National well-being and international sports events 0 0 2 315 6 18 42 1,086
ON THE OPTIMAL REALIGNMENT OF A CONTEST: THE CASE OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL 0 0 0 6 4 5 10 54
Olympic Games, Terrorism and their Impact on the London and Paris Stock Exchanges 0 0 0 46 3 5 13 211
On the Edge of Your Seat: Demand for Football on Television and the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis 0 2 7 363 3 5 31 1,060
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 4 4 3 6 16 20
PARALLEL TRADE, INTERNATIONAL EXHAUSTION AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: A WELFARE ANALYSIS* 0 0 0 73 1 3 11 260
Parallel trade, price discrimination, investment and price caps 0 0 1 146 1 4 13 604
Professional Asian Football Leagues and the Global Market 0 3 4 26 5 9 18 79
Professional Team Sports Are Only a Game 0 0 2 14 7 11 21 55
Promotion and Relegation 0 1 1 240 1 4 12 564
Promotion and Relegation in Sporting Contests 0 0 6 154 4 7 28 460
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 1 7 32 6 13 30 188
Racial Discrimination in English football 0 1 2 9 6 10 17 54
Rational pricing strategies in the cross channel market 0 0 0 55 1 4 7 233
Regulation through comparative performance evaluation 0 0 1 36 1 1 14 120
Reply: "Professional Team Sports Are Only a Game: The Walrasian Fixed-Supply Conjecture Model, Contest-Nash Equilibrium, and the Invariance Principle" 0 1 1 19 4 5 10 75
Some Observations on Fort and Winfree “Nash Conjectures and Talent Supply in Sports League Modeling 0 0 0 17 2 4 8 89
Spatial dependence through local yardstick competition:: theory and testing 0 0 0 127 1 2 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 2 174 2 3 11 464
Teaching Competition in Professional Sports Leagues 0 0 0 17 3 3 11 90
Testing Causality Between Team Performance and Payroll 0 0 6 123 6 18 38 383
Testing the O-Ring theory using data from the English Premier League 1 1 2 57 11 16 35 282
The Americanization of European football 1 1 6 34 4 11 37 129
The Assessment: The Economics of Sport 0 0 0 9 4 7 11 1,485
The Disappearing Relationship Between Directors' Pay and Corporate Performance 0 0 3 52 2 2 14 147
The Economic Design of Sporting Contests 5 8 20 194 19 39 113 1,949
The Economic Impact of the World Cup 0 8 36 3,491 5 28 127 9,029
The Economics of Sport: An International Perspective. By ROBERT SANDY, PETER J. SLOANE and MARK S. ROSENTRAUB 2 2 3 343 6 7 9 665
The English Football Industry: profit, performance and industrial structure 3 5 16 606 9 23 79 6,148
The Financial Crisis and English Football: The Dog That Will Not Bark 0 1 13 548 1 9 50 1,193
The Financial Crisis in European Football 1 3 13 36 3 7 34 85
The Market for Olympic Gold Medals 0 0 1 286 3 4 8 1,140
The Political Economy of Sport 0 2 6 250 2 12 33 1,288
The Private Benefit of Public Funding: The FIFA World Cup, UEFA European Championship, and Attendance at Host Country League Soccer 1 1 4 27 2 3 17 104
The Promotion Test 0 0 0 78 1 2 5 240
The Survival of Mediocre Superstars in the Labor Market 0 0 0 4 0 4 15 30
The impact of compulsory competitive tendering on refuse collection services 0 0 0 177 4 7 38 1,178
Tourism and the 2010 World Cup: Lessons for Developing Countries 1 2 6 171 3 8 23 417
Up for the Cup 0 0 0 71 1 1 7 219
Total Journal Articles 30 83 299 13,694 276 587 1,791 47,601


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Football Economics and Policy 0 0 0 2 8 14 49 163
The Comparative Economics of Sport 1 1 2 2 7 18 72 156
Total Books 1 1 2 4 15 32 121 319


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Market Test for Discrimination in the English Professional Soccer Leagues 1 1 1 1 3 6 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 1 2 10 14
Baseball Economics 1 1 2 17 2 2 8 87
Broadcasting, Attendance and the Inefficiency of Cartels 0 1 1 1 1 5 14 23
Competitive Balance and Gate Revenue Sharing in Team Sports 0 0 0 1 5 7 15 36
English Football 0 0 0 0 3 5 15 36
Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Outcome: Open Leagues, Closed Leagues and Competitive Balance 0 0 0 1 3 3 11 30
European and North American Sports Differences (?): A Quarter Century on 0 0 0 0 9 11 24 27
Football in England 0 0 0 35 3 4 10 204
Hearts, Minds and the Restrictive Practices Court 0 0 0 0 3 4 6 6
Incentive effects of second prizes 0 0 0 0 5 6 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 3 4 19 37
Insolvency in English football 0 1 2 28 1 5 10 80
Introduction 0 0 0 0 1 1 7 8
Is there evidence of softness in the budget constraint in football? Some evidence from English clubs 0 0 1 17 2 2 7 34
New Stadiums in North America and Europe: A Comparison and Agenda for Future Research 0 0 0 0 1 3 16 22
Open Competition in League Sports 0 0 0 1 2 7 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 1 2 8
Promotion and Relegation in Sporting Contests 0 0 0 1 2 3 14 52
Revenue Sharing 0 0 0 8 4 5 7 49
Seizing the Moment: A Blueprint for Reform of World Cricket 0 0 0 0 2 3 8 17
Sport Financing and Governance in Europe 0 1 3 42 3 6 16 113
The Americanization of European football 0 0 0 0 1 2 9 36
The Anglo-American Model of Sport 0 0 1 23 0 1 9 89
The Champions League and the Coase Theorem 0 0 0 0 4 7 12 32
The Economic Design of Sporting Contests 0 0 1 1 2 9 32 55
The Economic Impact of the World Cup 0 0 1 8 2 9 33 199
The Employment Effects of London 2012: An Assessment in Mid-2011 0 2 2 73 1 4 11 146
The English Football Industry: Profit, Performance and Industrial Structure 0 0 0 1 3 7 26 84
The Financial Crisis in European Football: An Introduction 0 0 1 2 6 9 25 64
The J. League and the World Cup 0 0 2 2 2 4 17 34
The Market for Soccer Players in England after Bosman: Winners and Losers 0 0 0 3 5 9 19 58
The Political Economy of Sport 0 0 0 1 1 7 20 53
The Promotion and Relegation System 0 0 0 85 4 5 22 224
The Sporting Exception and the Legality of Restraints in the US 0 0 0 4 0 1 6 27
The Theory of Tournaments 0 1 3 35 1 5 11 75
Uncertainty of Outcome, Competitive Balance and the Theory of Team Sports 3 4 10 158 9 16 38 489
Wages, transfers and the variation of team performance in the English Premier League 0 6 18 414 3 14 50 803
Why Have Premium Sports Rights Migrated to Pay TV in Europe But Not in the US? 0 0 0 3 0 3 9 24
“Form is temporary, class is permanent”: an English Premier League analysis 0 1 1 8 9 16 31 85
Total Chapters 5 19 50 974 113 223 679 3,581


Statistics updated 2026-05-06