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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Leo H Kahane; Stephen Shmanske |
| ISBN: | 9780195387773 0195387775 9780195387780 0195387783 |
| OCLC Number: | 658813006 |
| Description: | 2 v. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Contents: | v.1. The economics of sports / edited by Leo H. Kahane and Stephen Shmanske. Economics of leagues and contest design. Economics of league design: open versus closed systems / Stefan Szymanski ; Competitive balance / Brad R. Humphreys and Nicholas M. Watanabe ; Club objectives, competitive balance, and the invariance proposition / Stefan Kesenne ; Theory of the big dance: the playoff pay-off in pro sports leagues / John Vrooman -- Economics of major league sports. Baseball. Baseball's antitrust exemption: history and current relevance / Roger D. Blair and Jessica S. Haynes ; The reserve clause and labor mobility / Paul D. Staudohar ; Basketball. Salary caps and luxury taxes / Dennis Coates and Bernd Frick ; International labor mobility and the National Basketball Association / Evan Osborne ; Hockey. The demand for violence in hockey / Duane W. Rockerbie ; Hockey: game design and overtime / Jason Abrevaya ; Football. Field position and strategy in American football / Kevin G. Quinn ; Network television revenue sharing and competitive balance in the NFL / Ira Horowitz and G.E. Whittenburg ; Competing leagues, mergers, and expansions / Aju J. Fenn ; Soccer. The Bosman ruling and labor mobility in football (soccer) / John Goddard, Peter J. Sloane, and John O.S. Wilson ; Labor supply and human capital formation in professional team sports: evidence from the FA Premier League / Bill Gerrard -- Economics of other sports. Remembering three economic studies on professional golf / Matthew Hood ; The economics of NASCAR / Andrew Abere, Peter Bronsteen, and Kenneth G. Elzinga -- Economics of college sports. To be or not to be: the NCAA as a cartel / Robert D. Tollison ; What does intercollegiate athletics do to or for colleges and universities? / Malcolm Getz and John Siegfried ; Is March Madness contagious? Post-season play and attendance in NCAA Division I basketball / Craig A. Depken, II ; Gender equity in intercollegiate athletics: economic considerations and possible fixes / Andrew Zimbalist -- Economics of mega events. Economics of the Olympics / Peter Dawson ; The economics of the World Cup / Rob Simmons and Christian Deutscher ; Economics of the Super Bowl / Victor A. Matheson -- Economics of refereeing. Career duration in professional football: the case of German soccer referees / Bernd Frick -- v. 2. Economics through sports / edited by Stephen Shmanske and Leo H. Kahane. The economics of discrimination. Prejudice and progress in baseball: lessons on the economics of race and discrimination / Stephen J.K. Walters ; The economics of discrimination: evidence from basketball / Lawrence M. Kahn ; Gender and discrimination in professional golf / Stephen Shmanske ; The economics of discrimination: evidence from hockey / Neil Longley -- Illustrations of production theory. The production technology of major league baseball / Anthony C. Krautmann ; Measuring performance in the National Basketball Association / David J. Berri ; Frontier models and their application to the sports industry / Young Hoon Lee ; Age and performance under pressure: golfers on the LPGA tour / Harold O. Fried and Loren W. Tauer ; Salary dispersion and team production: evidence from the National Hockey League / Leo H. Kahane -- Illustrations of econometric methods. Travel and population issues in modeling attendance demand / David Forrest ; Demand, attendance, and censoring: utilization rates in the National Football League / Martin B. Schmidt ; Demand for attendance: price measurement / Richard C.K. Burdekin -- Illustrations of industrial organization. Major league baseball is just like McDonald's? Lessons from unrecognized rival leagues / Rodney Fort ; The market structure of professional sports and the implications for stadium construction and team movements / Robert A. Baade ; Location, location, location? Sports franchise placement in the four major U.S. sports leagues / Karl W. Einolf -- Illustrations of finance. Event analysis / Eva Marikova Leeds and Michael A. Leeds ; Behavioral biases and sportsbook pricing in major league baseball / Rodney J. Paul and Andrew P. Weinbach -- Illustrations of public finance. Multiplier effects and local economic impact / Peter von Allmen ; Contingent valuation of sports / Bruce K. Johnson and John C. Whitehead -- Miscellany. The economics of crime reconsidered: a game theoretic approach with an empirical test from major league baseball / Joseph P. McGarrity ; Illustrations of price discrimination in baseball / Daniel A. Rascher and Andrew D. Schwarz ; Contest theory and its applications in sports / Helmut Dietl, Egon Franck, Martin Grossmann, and Markus Lang ; Tournament incentives in professional bowling / Michael L. Bognanno. |
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