Handbook on the economics of sport / edited by Wladimir Andreff, Stefan Szymanski.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Andreff, Wladimir, 1946-, Szymanski, Stefan, 1960-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham ; North Hampton, MA : Edward Elgar, 2006.
Series:Elgar original reference.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : sport and economics / Wladimir Andreff and Stefan Szymanski
  • 1. Sports accounting / Wladimir Andreff
  • 2. The production of professional team sports / Jeff Borland
  • 3. The sports goods industry / Wladimir Andreff
  • 4. Sport and gambling / David Forrest
  • 5. Sponsorship / Claude Jeanrenaud
  • 6. International trade in sports goods / Wladimir Andreff
  • 7. The demand for sport / Jean-Jacques Gouguet
  • 8. The demand for spectator sports / Rob Simmons
  • 9. Attendance at sports events / Patrick Feehan
  • 10. The demand for sports broadcasting / Babatunde Buraimo
  • 11. The demand for media coverage / Frederic Bolotny and Jean-Francois Bourg
  • 12. Economic impact analysis / Victor Matheson
  • 13. Physical activity, sport and health / Jean-Francois Nys
  • 14. Employment in sport / Didier Primault
  • 15. Sporting externalities / Jean-Jacques Gouguet and Eric Barget
  • 16. The economic impact of mega-sporting events / Robert A. Baade
  • 17. The Olympics / Holger Preuss
  • 18. The World Cup / Markus Kurscheidt
  • 19. The economic impact of sporting facilities / Brad R. Humphreys
  • 20. Voluntary work in sport / Wladimir Andreff
  • 21. Governance and governing bodies in sport / Thomas Hoehn
  • 22. The economics of the IOC / Jean-Loup Chappelet
  • 23. Government objectives and sport / Barrie Houlihan
  • 24. Central government and sport / Jean-Francois Nys
  • 25. Sport and financing / Wladimir Andreff
  • 26. Military sport / Jean-Francois Nys
  • 27. Local government and regional development in sport / Carlos Pestana Barros
  • 28. The European model of sport / Peter J. Sloane
  • 29. The Anglo-American model of sport / Stefan Szymanski
  • 30. Sport in developing countries / Wladimir Andreff
  • 31. Soviet and post-soviet sport / Sandrine Poupaux
  • 32. International labour migration / Wladimir Andreff'
  • 33. Comparative advantage of nations / Wladimir Andreff
  • 34. The theory of tournaments / Stefan Szymanski
  • 35. Implications from the theory of contests for modelling and designing sports competitions / Gerd Muehlheusser
  • 36. Citius, altius, fortius : the production of world records in the running and technical disciplines in track and field / Bernd Frick, Joachim Prinz and Frank Tolsdorf
  • 37. On the competitive structure in professional boxing, or why the best boxers very seldom fight each other / Rafael Tenorio
  • 38. Golf / Chantelle Bramley
  • 39. The economics of British horseracing / Wray Vamplew
  • 40. The economics of collegiate athletics / Karl W. Einolf
  • 41. The economics of US intercollegiate sports and the NCAA / Robert Sandy
  • 42. The economics of cycling / Michel Desbordes
  • 43. Extreme sports (climbing and mountaineering) / Gilles Rotillon
  • 44. The economics of tennis / Eric Barget
  • 45. The development of team sports before 1914 / Wray Vamplew
  • 46. Organisational models of professional team sports leagues / Andrew Zimbalist
  • 47. Baseball economics / Stefan Szymanski
  • 48. The economics of soccer / John Goddard
  • 49. Football in England / Stefan Szymanski
  • 50. The state of the Italian football industry / Umberto Lago
  • 51. The economics of soccer in Spain / Jaume Garciu and Placido Rodriguez
  • 52. Football in Germany / Bernd Frick
  • 53. Football in France / Frederic Bolotny
  • 54. American football / Michael Leeds
  • 55. Labour economics on the hardwood : the NBA / David J. Berri
  • 56. European professional basketball in crisis, 1992-2002 / Didier Primault
  • 57. Ice hockey / Marc Lavoie
  • 58. The economic development of the Australian Football League / Ross Booth
  • 59. Rugby : strategy and structure / John McMillan
  • 60. The economics of professional rugby / Pierre Chaix
  • 61. The economics of cricket / Ian Preston
  • 62. Uncertainty of outcome, competitive balance and the theory of team sports / Stefan Szymanski
  • 63. The objective function of a team / Stefan Kesenne
  • 64. Production functions for sporting teams / Jeff Borland
  • 65. Revenue sharing / Stefan Szymanski
  • 66. The reserve clause in Major League Baseball / Lawrence Hadley
  • 67. The retain and transfer system / Dennis Thomas
  • 68. The Bosman case and European football / Stefan Kesenne
  • 69. The reverse-order-of-finish draft in sports / Leo H. Kahane
  • 70. Chasing the elusive salary cap / Daniel R. Marburger
  • 71. The luxury tax in professional sports / Elizabeth Gustafson
  • 72. 'At the top table' : player unions in soccer / Braham Dabscheck
  • 73. The player transfer system in soccer / Fiona Carmichael
  • 74. Player agents / Daniel S. Mason
  • 75. The promotion and relegation system / Stefan Szymanski
  • 76. Team sports and finance / Wladimir Andreff
  • 77. Inelastic sports pricing at the gate? : a survey / Rodney Fort
  • 78. Financial innovation in professional team sports : the case of English Premiership soccer / Bill Gerrard
  • 79. Collective selling of broadcast rights in team sports / Susanne Parlasca
  • 80. The sporting exception and the legality of restraints in the US / Stefan Szymanski
  • 81. The specificity of sport and European Community law : the example of nationality / Jean-Christophe Breillat and Frank Lagarde
  • 82. Sport and globalisation : sport as a global public good / Jean-Francois Bourg and Jean-Jacques Gouguet
  • 83. Racial discrimination / Neil Longley
  • 84. Gender discrimination / Brad R. Humphreys
  • 85. Doping / Nicolas Eber
  • 86. Corruption / Wolfgang Maennig.
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