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A Law of Large numbers: Bidding and competitive tendering for refuse collection contracts 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 362
A Theory of the Evolution of Modern Sport 0 1 8 924 1 5 26 3,867
Are restrictions of competition by sports associations horizontal or vertical in nature? 0 0 1 153 1 2 10 426
Competitive Balance and Income Redistribution in Team Sports 0 0 0 795 0 1 2 1,164
Competitive balance and gate revenue sharing in team sports 0 1 3 907 1 2 11 2,171
Competitive balance in sports leagues and the paradox of power 0 0 1 902 0 0 5 2,619
Convergence vs. the middle income trap: The case of global soccer 0 0 3 47 0 1 10 125
Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Outcome: Static and Dynamic Competitive Balance in European and North American Sports Leagues 0 0 1 217 0 0 7 593
Financial fair play in European football 2 4 13 697 5 12 44 1,834
First and Second Prizes in Imperfectly Discriminating Contests 0 0 0 146 0 0 1 361
Goal! Profit maximization and win maximization in football leagues 0 2 3 1,096 0 5 19 2,892
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 109
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 40
Handbook on the Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14
If you host it, where will they come from? Mega-Events and Tourism in South Africa 0 0 1 269 0 0 16 923
Insolvency in English professional football: Irrational Exuberance or Negative Shocks? 0 0 8 370 3 3 27 975
Insolvency in French Soccer 1 1 2 65 1 1 5 163
Introduction 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
Introduction 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 13
National Wellbeing and International Sports Events 1 2 4 1,088 4 6 14 3,465
On the Edge of Your Seat: Demand for Football on Television and the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis 0 1 8 821 2 4 26 1,989
Parallel Trade, International Exhaustion and Intellectual Property Rights: A Welfare Analysis 0 0 0 331 0 0 1 1,205
Parallel Trade, International Exhaustion and Intellectual Property Rights: A Welfare Analysis 0 0 1 215 0 0 2 632
Privatisation, Liberalisation, Wages and Employment: Theory and Evidence for the UK 0 0 1 12 0 1 3 23
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 1 1 5 93
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 19
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 38 1 1 2 53
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 44 1 3 15 129
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 49
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 13 0 1 3 25
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 0 0 20 1 1 4 44
Teaching competition in professional sports leagues 0 0 0 361 0 1 10 1,149
Teaching competition in professional sports leagues 0 0 0 79 0 0 1 220
The Champions League and the Coase Theorem 0 0 0 950 0 0 3 2,006
The Host with the Most? The Effects of the Olympic Games on Happiness 0 0 0 22 0 0 5 136
The Host with the Most? The Effects of the Olympic Games on Happiness 0 0 0 49 0 0 5 339
The Host with the Most? The Effects of the Olympic Games on Happiness 0 0 0 29 0 1 2 116
The host with the most? The effects of the Olympic Games on happiness 0 0 0 10 0 0 6 111
The host with the most? The effects of the Olympic Games on happiness 0 0 1 82 0 0 4 244
The inefficient advantage of experience in the market for football managers 0 0 4 55 1 2 14 134
Tilting the Playing Field (Why a sports league planner would choose less, not more, competitive balance): The case of English Football 0 0 3 355 0 0 5 749
Tilting the Playing Field: Why a sports league planner would choose less, not more, competitive balance 1 1 1 382 1 1 3 806
Transatlantic Sport: An Introduction 0 0 0 99 0 0 1 258
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 4 5 14 1,315 8 11 42 2,872
Why Have Premium Sports Rights Migrated to Pay-TV in Europe but not in the US? 0 0 1 236 0 0 2 435
Total Working Papers 9 18 83 13,342 33 69 374 36,191


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A BARGAINING THEORY OF PRIVATISATION 0 0 1 10 0 0 1 35
A Law of Large Numbers: Bidding and Compulsory Competitive Tendering for Refuse Collection Contracts 0 0 0 53 0 0 0 164
A Market Test for Discrimination in the English Professional Soccer Leagues 0 0 2 408 1 3 7 1,132
ARE RESTRICTIONS OF COMPETITION BY SPORTS ASSOCIATIONS HORIZONTAL OR VERTICAL IN NATURE? 0 2 6 29 1 4 12 82
All Runs Are Created Equal: Labor Market Efficiency in Major League Baseball 0 1 7 12 0 2 13 39
Anticipating the honeymoon: Event study estimation of new stadium effects in Major League Baseball using the imputation method 0 0 1 4 0 0 5 12
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 0 17 77 3 3 31 204
Bad for Business? The Effects of Hooliganism on English Professional Football Clubs 0 0 8 175 0 3 25 796
Beaten in the race for the ball: Black footballers get paid less than they are worth, and football suffers 0 0 0 17 0 0 1 53
Book Review: The Economics of Sports, The Economics of Professional Team Sports 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 9
Broadcasting, Attendance and the Inefficiency of Cartels 0 0 2 348 0 0 6 734
CCT: a clean solution?: Compulsory tendering may save local government, not destroy it 0 0 0 6 0 0 2 41
Cheap rubbish? Competitive tendering and contracting out in refuse collection, 1981-88 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 299
Competitive balance and gate revenue sharing in team sports 0 0 6 542 1 1 57 1,398
Convergence versus the middle-income trap: the case of global soccer 0 0 0 9 0 0 1 51
Economics of Sport: Introduction 0 0 0 397 0 1 3 1,070
English Football 0 1 13 231 0 12 52 632
Entry into exit: insolvency in English professional football 0 1 4 41 0 6 14 108
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 1 10 72 2 3 20 236
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 1 7 55 717 6 14 106 1,765
Financial fair play in European football 0 4 14 122 4 12 50 375
From the Olympics to the grassroots: What will London 2012 mean for sport funding and participation in Britain? 0 0 2 122 0 0 2 338
GOVERNANCE AND VERTICAL INTEGRATION IN TEAM SPORTS 0 0 0 104 0 0 5 397
Goal! Profit Maximization Versus Win Maximization in Soccer 0 3 9 661 1 5 27 1,463
Incentive effects of second prizes 0 2 6 196 0 3 10 452
Income Inequality, Competitive Balance and the Attractiveness of Team Sports: Some Evidence and a Natural Experiment from English Soccer 0 0 0 490 0 1 13 1,492
Insolvency in French Soccer 0 0 1 13 0 0 6 75
Making Hay While the Sun Shines 0 0 1 43 0 1 3 394
Making Money Out of Football 0 1 7 62 1 7 26 186
Microeconomic contributions to strategic management: J. Thepot and R.-A. Thietart, eds.,North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1991 0 0 0 56 0 0 0 214
Modelling the spatial impact of the introduction of Compulsory Competitive Tendering 0 0 0 66 0 1 1 250
National well-being and international sports events 0 0 7 314 1 4 29 1,051
ON THE OPTIMAL REALIGNMENT OF A CONTEST: THE CASE OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL 0 0 0 6 0 1 3 45
Olympic Games, Terrorism and their Impact on the London and Paris Stock Exchanges 0 0 0 46 0 1 1 199
On the Edge of Your Seat: Demand for Football on Television and the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis 0 0 12 358 3 4 37 1,037
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 0 2 47
PARALLEL TRADE, INTERNATIONAL EXHAUSTION AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: A WELFARE ANALYSIS* 0 0 2 73 0 0 2 249
Parallel trade, price discrimination, investment and price caps 0 0 1 146 0 0 2 592
Professional Asian Football Leagues and the Global Market 0 0 2 22 0 0 4 61
Professional Team Sports Are Only a Game 0 0 1 12 0 0 3 34
Promotion and Relegation 0 0 2 239 1 1 6 553
Promotion and Relegation in Sporting Contests 1 1 2 149 3 4 17 440
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data 0 2 4 29 0 3 23 165
Racial Discrimination in English football 0 1 2 8 0 1 9 38
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 0 1 2 108
Reply: "Professional Team Sports Are Only a Game: The Walrasian Fixed-Supply Conjecture Model, Contest-Nash Equilibrium, and the Invariance Principle" 0 0 1 18 0 0 1 65
Some Observations on Fort and Winfree “Nash Conjectures and Talent Supply in Sports League Modeling 0 0 0 17 0 0 1 81
Spatial dependence through local yardstick competition:: theory and testing 0 0 0 127 1 2 6 277
Strategic delegation with endogenous costs: A duopoly with wage bargaining 0 0 1 72 0 0 2 165
THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE AND THE COASE THEOREM 0 1 4 173 0 1 8 455
Teaching Competition in Professional Sports Leagues 0 0 0 17 0 2 3 82
Testing Causality Between Team Performance and Payroll 0 0 5 119 0 0 14 347
Testing the O-Ring theory using data from the English Premier League 0 0 1 56 2 3 15 252
The Americanization of European football 1 1 4 29 1 3 12 96
The Assessment: The Economics of Sport 0 0 0 9 0 0 13 1,474
The Disappearing Relationship Between Directors' Pay and Corporate Performance 0 0 2 50 1 1 4 135
The Economic Design of Sporting Contests 1 3 9 178 1 6 29 1,844
The Economic Impact of the World Cup 0 6 39 3,466 4 15 92 8,927
The Economics of Sport: An International Perspective. By ROBERT SANDY, PETER J. SLOANE and MARK S. ROSENTRAUB 0 0 1 340 0 0 2 656
The English Football Industry: profit, performance and industrial structure 2 3 15 593 6 7 47 6,081
The Financial Crisis and English Football: The Dog That Will Not Bark 1 2 7 537 2 3 17 1,148
The Financial Crisis in European Football 1 3 13 26 1 6 23 58
The Market for Olympic Gold Medals 0 1 2 286 0 2 7 1,134
The Political Economy of Sport 0 0 1 244 0 0 4 1,255
The Private Benefit of Public Funding: The FIFA World Cup, UEFA European Championship, and Attendance at Host Country League Soccer 1 1 3 25 2 2 8 90
The Promotion Test 0 0 1 78 0 1 2 236
The Survival of Mediocre Superstars in the Labor Market 0 0 1 4 2 3 7 19
The impact of compulsory competitive tendering on refuse collection services 0 0 3 177 1 17 20 1,157
Tourism and the 2010 World Cup: Lessons for Developing Countries 1 2 16 168 1 2 24 398
Up for the Cup 0 0 0 71 1 2 2 214
Total Journal Articles 10 50 338 13,482 54 180 1,006 46,087


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Football Economics and Policy 0 0 1 2 0 2 29 117
The Comparative Economics of Sport 0 0 0 0 1 2 36 92
Total Books 0 0 1 2 1 4 65 209


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Market Test for Discrimination in the English Professional Soccer Leagues 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 23
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 0 2 4
Baseball Economics 1 1 3 16 1 3 5 82
Broadcasting, Attendance and the Inefficiency of Cartels 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 9
Competitive Balance and Gate Revenue Sharing in Team Sports 0 0 0 1 1 2 4 23
English Football 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 24
Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Outcome: Open Leagues, Closed Leagues and Competitive Balance 0 0 0 1 1 2 8 22
Football in England 0 0 1 35 0 1 3 195
Hearts, Minds and the Restrictive Practices Court 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Income Inequality, Competitive Balance and the Attractiveness of Team Sports: Some Evidence and a Natural Experiment from English Soccer 0 0 0 0 1 2 7 21
Insolvency in English football 0 1 1 27 0 1 4 71
Is there evidence of softness in the budget constraint in football? Some evidence from English clubs 0 0 3 16 0 1 5 28
New Stadiums in North America and Europe: A Comparison and Agenda for Future Research 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 7
Open Competition in League Sports 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 17
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 0 6
Promotion and Relegation in Sporting Contests 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 41
Revenue Sharing 0 0 0 8 0 0 1 42
Seizing the Moment: A Blueprint for Reform of World Cricket 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 10
Sport Financing and Governance in Europe 0 0 2 39 1 1 5 99
The Americanization of European football 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 30
The Anglo-American Model of Sport 0 0 0 22 0 2 2 82
The Champions League and the Coase Theorem 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 22
The Economic Design of Sporting Contests 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 25
The Economic Impact of the World Cup 0 0 0 7 0 4 34 173
The Employment Effects of London 2012: An Assessment in Mid-2011 0 0 7 71 1 2 13 137
The English Football Industry: Profit, Performance and Industrial Structure 0 0 0 1 1 3 12 62
The Financial Crisis in European Football: An Introduction 0 0 0 1 0 3 11 43
The J. League and the World Cup 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 18
The Market for Soccer Players in England after Bosman: Winners and Losers 0 0 1 3 1 1 16 41
The Political Economy of Sport 0 0 0 1 1 2 15 37
The Promotion and Relegation System 0 0 7 85 1 2 11 206
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 2 5 67
Uncertainty of Outcome, Competitive Balance and the Theory of Team Sports 0 1 18 150 0 3 41 460
Wages, transfers and the variation of team performance in the English Premier League 1 2 13 398 2 4 32 758
Why Have Premium Sports Rights Migrated to Pay TV in Europe But Not in the US? 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 16
“Form is temporary, class is permanentâ€: an English Premier League analysis 0 0 2 7 2 4 25 61
Total Chapters 2 5 60 931 14 57 295 2,983


Statistics updated 2025-09-05