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A Law of Large numbers: Bidding and competitive tendering for refuse collection contracts 0 0 0 10 1 4 5 367
A Theory of the Evolution of Modern Sport 0 0 5 926 4 9 22 3,879
Are restrictions of competition by sports associations horizontal or vertical in nature? 0 0 0 153 6 7 12 434
Competitive Balance and Income Redistribution in Team Sports 3 3 3 798 5 7 9 1,171
Competitive balance and gate revenue sharing in team sports 0 2 5 911 6 12 18 2,185
Competitive balance in sports leagues and the paradox of power 0 0 0 902 9 12 14 2,632
Convergence vs. the middle income trap: The case of global soccer 0 0 0 47 2 13 19 140
Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Outcome: Static and Dynamic Competitive Balance in European and North American Sports Leagues 1 1 1 218 5 5 10 599
Financial fair play in European football 0 5 21 708 15 52 103 1,907
First and Second Prizes in Imperfectly Discriminating Contests 0 0 0 146 1 4 5 365
Goal! Profit maximization and win maximization in football leagues 2 2 4 1,098 10 15 28 2,907
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 18
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 112
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 42
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 8 10 10 32
If you host it, where will they come from? Mega-Events and Tourism in South Africa 0 0 0 269 6 8 16 933
Insolvency in English professional football: Irrational Exuberance or Negative Shocks? 2 3 11 376 8 13 39 995
Insolvency in French Soccer 0 0 1 65 3 7 10 171
Introduction 0 0 0 0 2 3 3 7
Introduction 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 14
National Wellbeing and International Sports Events 0 1 5 1,090 8 18 31 3,487
On the Edge of Your Seat: Demand for Football on Television and the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis 0 0 5 821 10 21 38 2,011
Parallel Trade, International Exhaustion and Intellectual Property Rights: A Welfare Analysis 0 0 0 215 2 6 8 639
Parallel Trade, International Exhaustion and Intellectual Property Rights: A Welfare Analysis 0 0 0 331 1 3 3 1,208
Privatisation, Liberalisation, Wages and Employment: Theory and Evidence for the UK 0 0 0 12 3 9 12 33
Privatization, Jobs and Wages 0 0 0 0 5 6 6 10
Quantifying the Intangible Impact of the Olympics Using Subjective Well-Being Data 0 0 1 37 4 4 9 99
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 20 6 11 14 55
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 0 4 5 10 55
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 1 2 46 0 3 17 135
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 13 3 4 6 29
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 38 3 6 8 60
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 0 5 5 6 24
Teaching competition in professional sports leagues 0 0 0 361 6 14 25 1,164
Teaching competition in professional sports leagues 0 0 0 79 4 5 7 226
The Champions League and the Coase Theorem 0 0 0 950 5 13 14 2,019
The Host with the Most? The Effects of the Olympic Games on Happiness 0 0 0 49 4 15 18 355
The Host with the Most? The Effects of the Olympic Games on Happiness 0 0 0 22 4 5 11 143
The Host with the Most? The Effects of the Olympic Games on Happiness 0 0 0 29 6 8 10 125
The host with the most? The effects of the Olympic Games on happiness 0 0 0 82 3 8 9 252
The host with the most? The effects of the Olympic Games on happiness 0 0 0 10 2 5 9 116
The inefficient advantage of experience in the market for football managers 0 0 1 55 3 6 10 141
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 0 6 12 758
Tilting the Playing Field: Why a sports league planner would choose less, not more, competitive balance 0 0 1 382 4 7 11 814
Transatlantic Sport: An Introduction 0 0 0 99 0 1 2 259
Two recent cases relating to broadcasting and football in England 0 0 0 101 3 3 3 212
Vertical restraints in soccer: Financial fair play and the English Premier League 0 2 11 1,317 6 15 51 2,893
Why Have Premium Sports Rights Migrated to Pay-TV in Europe but not in the US? 1 1 1 237 3 6 6 441
Total Working Papers 9 21 80 13,378 199 406 703 36,673


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A BARGAINING THEORY OF PRIVATISATION 0 0 1 10 2 6 7 41
A Law of Large Numbers: Bidding and Compulsory Competitive Tendering for Refuse Collection Contracts 0 1 2 55 2 4 5 169
A Market Test for Discrimination in the English Professional Soccer Leagues 2 3 6 412 3 7 17 1,144
ARE RESTRICTIONS OF COMPETITION BY SPORTS ASSOCIATIONS HORIZONTAL OR VERTICAL IN NATURE? 0 0 5 29 3 5 16 89
All Runs Are Created Equal: Labor Market Efficiency in Major League Baseball 0 0 6 13 1 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 4 6 16
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 2 10 80 20 39 59 248
Bad for Business? The Effects of Hooliganism on English Professional Football Clubs 0 0 7 176 4 7 23 806
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 3 55
Book Review: The Economics of Sports, The Economics of Professional Team Sports 0 0 0 2 5 8 8 17
Broadcasting, Attendance and the Inefficiency of Cartels 1 1 1 349 6 8 9 742
CCT: a clean solution?: Compulsory tendering may save local government, not destroy it 0 0 0 6 3 6 8 47
Cheap rubbish? Competitive tendering and contracting out in refuse collection, 1981-88 0 0 0 0 3 4 6 303
Competitive balance and gate revenue sharing in team sports 0 0 3 543 6 12 23 1,413
Convergence versus the middle-income trap: the case of global soccer 0 0 1 10 10 12 14 64
Economics of Sport: Introduction 0 0 0 397 2 3 8 1,076
English Football 1 3 12 234 11 21 58 657
Entry into exit: insolvency in English professional football 2 4 10 47 3 5 20 115
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 8 72 2 7 24 246
Executive Pay and Performance: The Empirical Importance of the Participation Constraint 0 0 0 6 2 4 4 104
Fair is Foul: A Critical Analysis of UEFA Financial Fair Play 0 0 31 720 5 11 73 1,783
Financial fair play in European football 1 6 17 130 8 30 67 416
From the Olympics to the grassroots: What will London 2012 mean for sport funding and participation in Britain? 0 0 2 122 3 6 10 346
GOVERNANCE AND VERTICAL INTEGRATION IN TEAM SPORTS 0 0 0 104 1 2 6 400
Goal! Profit Maximization Versus Win Maximization in Soccer 2 3 12 666 9 14 34 1,480
Incentive effects of second prizes 0 0 6 196 5 7 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 6 10 19 1,504
Insolvency in French Soccer 1 3 4 16 6 10 14 86
Making Hay While the Sun Shines 0 0 0 43 3 4 6 398
Making Money Out of Football 1 2 8 65 8 14 40 208
Microeconomic contributions to strategic management: J. Thepot and R.-A. Thietart, eds.,North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1991 0 0 0 56 3 3 4 218
Modelling the spatial impact of the introduction of Compulsory Competitive Tendering 0 0 0 66 2 4 6 255
National well-being and international sports events 1 1 5 315 7 13 29 1,068
ON THE OPTIMAL REALIGNMENT OF A CONTEST: THE CASE OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL 0 0 0 6 3 4 5 49
Olympic Games, Terrorism and their Impact on the London and Paris Stock Exchanges 0 0 0 46 3 5 8 206
On the Edge of Your Seat: Demand for Football on Television and the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis 2 2 9 361 11 14 37 1,055
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 14 18 64
On the efficiency of trading intangible fixed assets in Major League Baseball 1 1 2 2 5 6 14 14
PARALLEL TRADE, INTERNATIONAL EXHAUSTION AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: A WELFARE ANALYSIS* 0 0 0 73 3 6 8 257
Parallel trade, price discrimination, investment and price caps 0 0 1 146 3 8 9 600
Professional Asian Football Leagues and the Global Market 0 1 2 23 2 9 11 70
Professional Team Sports Are Only a Game 0 2 2 14 5 8 10 44
Promotion and Relegation 0 0 1 239 3 7 12 560
Promotion and Relegation in Sporting Contests 1 4 7 154 5 11 27 453
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 1 6 31 5 8 26 175
Racial Discrimination in English football 0 0 2 8 4 6 11 44
Rational pricing strategies in the cross channel market 0 0 0 55 1 3 3 229
Regulation through comparative performance evaluation 0 0 1 36 5 9 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 4 5 5 70
Some Observations on Fort and Winfree “Nash Conjectures and Talent Supply in Sports League Modeling 0 0 0 17 2 3 4 85
Spatial dependence through local yardstick competition:: theory and testing 0 0 0 127 0 2 7 281
Strategic delegation with endogenous costs: A duopoly with wage bargaining 0 0 1 72 1 1 3 167
THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE AND THE COASE THEOREM 0 0 3 174 2 4 10 461
Teaching Competition in Professional Sports Leagues 0 0 0 17 0 1 8 87
Testing Causality Between Team Performance and Payroll 3 3 6 123 11 12 23 365
Testing the O-Ring theory using data from the English Premier League 0 0 1 56 5 11 27 266
The Americanization of European football 1 3 8 33 10 20 31 118
The Assessment: The Economics of Sport 0 0 0 9 1 4 7 1,478
The Disappearing Relationship Between Directors' Pay and Corporate Performance 0 1 4 52 5 7 13 145
The Economic Design of Sporting Contests 4 7 15 186 42 62 82 1,910
The Economic Impact of the World Cup 1 14 47 3,483 17 56 143 9,001
The Economics of Sport: An International Perspective. By ROBERT SANDY, PETER J. SLOANE and MARK S. ROSENTRAUB 0 0 1 341 0 1 2 658
The English Football Industry: profit, performance and industrial structure 1 4 15 601 17 32 73 6,125
The Financial Crisis and English Football: The Dog That Will Not Bark 5 9 15 547 11 26 49 1,184
The Financial Crisis in European Football 4 5 13 33 8 15 33 78
The Market for Olympic Gold Medals 0 0 2 286 2 2 6 1,136
The Political Economy of Sport 1 3 4 248 10 17 23 1,276
The Private Benefit of Public Funding: The FIFA World Cup, UEFA European Championship, and Attendance at Host Country League Soccer 0 1 3 26 3 7 15 101
The Promotion Test 0 0 1 78 0 2 4 238
The Survival of Mediocre Superstars in the Labor Market 0 0 0 4 4 7 11 26
The impact of compulsory competitive tendering on refuse collection services 0 0 2 177 1 3 33 1,171
Tourism and the 2010 World Cup: Lessons for Developing Countries 0 1 7 169 4 9 19 409
Up for the Cup 0 0 0 71 3 4 6 218
Total Journal Articles 36 91 339 13,611 384 725 1,507 47,014


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Football Economics and Policy 0 0 1 2 12 29 44 149
The Comparative Economics of Sport 0 1 1 1 20 40 64 138
Total Books 0 1 2 3 32 69 108 287


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Market Test for Discrimination in the English Professional Soccer Leagues 0 0 0 0 1 8 10 32
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 8 9 12
Baseball Economics 0 0 3 16 1 3 8 85
Broadcasting, Attendance and the Inefficiency of Cartels 0 0 0 0 2 4 11 18
Competitive Balance and Gate Revenue Sharing in Team Sports 0 0 0 1 2 6 10 29
English Football 0 0 0 0 3 7 11 31
Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Outcome: Open Leagues, Closed Leagues and Competitive Balance 0 0 0 1 2 4 9 27
European and North American Sports Differences (?): A Quarter Century on 0 0 0 0 6 10 15 16
Football in England 0 0 0 35 1 4 6 200
Hearts, Minds and the Restrictive Practices Court 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 2
Incentive effects of second prizes 0 0 0 0 24 44 47 48
Income Inequality, Competitive Balance and the Attractiveness of Team Sports: Some Evidence and a Natural Experiment from English Soccer 0 0 0 0 4 9 16 33
Insolvency in English football 0 0 1 27 2 2 8 75
Introduction 0 0 0 0 3 3 6 7
Is there evidence of softness in the budget constraint in football? Some evidence from English clubs 0 0 2 17 0 2 7 32
New Stadiums in North America and Europe: A Comparison and Agenda for Future Research 0 0 0 0 6 11 13 19
Open Competition in League Sports 0 0 0 1 4 5 7 22
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 1 7
Promotion and Relegation in Sporting Contests 0 0 0 1 2 6 11 49
Revenue Sharing 0 0 0 8 1 2 3 44
Seizing the Moment: A Blueprint for Reform of World Cricket 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 14
Sport Financing and Governance in Europe 0 1 3 41 4 6 11 107
The Americanization of European football 0 0 0 0 1 4 7 34
The Anglo-American Model of Sport 1 1 1 23 2 5 8 88
The Champions League and the Coase Theorem 0 0 0 0 2 3 6 25
The Economic Design of Sporting Contests 1 1 1 1 19 20 24 46
The Economic Impact of the World Cup 0 1 1 8 3 12 39 190
The Employment Effects of London 2012: An Assessment in Mid-2011 0 0 0 71 5 5 8 142
The English Football Industry: Profit, Performance and Industrial Structure 0 0 0 1 5 13 20 77
The Financial Crisis in European Football: An Introduction 1 1 1 2 8 10 19 55
The J. League and the World Cup 1 2 2 2 3 8 13 30
The Market for Soccer Players in England after Bosman: Winners and Losers 0 0 0 3 4 6 16 49
The Political Economy of Sport 0 0 0 1 3 9 19 46
The Promotion and Relegation System 0 0 5 85 2 12 22 219
The Sporting Exception and the Legality of Restraints in the US 0 0 0 4 4 5 5 26
The Theory of Tournaments 1 1 3 34 1 2 8 70
Uncertainty of Outcome, Competitive Balance and the Theory of Team Sports 0 4 10 154 5 10 36 473
Wages, transfers and the variation of team performance in the English Premier League 2 7 17 408 12 26 47 789
Why Have Premium Sports Rights Migrated to Pay TV in Europe But Not in the US? 0 0 0 3 1 5 6 21
“Form is temporary, class is permanentâ€: an English Premier League analysis 0 0 0 7 1 4 19 69
Total Chapters 7 19 50 955 152 309 548 3,358


Statistics updated 2026-02-12