Table of Contents

Contents:

Introduction: Sport and Economics
Wladimir Andreff and Stefan Szymanski

PART I: SPORT IN THE ECONOMY
1. Sports Accounting
Wladimir Andreff

2. The Production of Professional Team Sports
Jeff Borland

3. The Sports Goods Industries
Wladimir Andreff

4. Sport and Gambling
David Forrest

5. Sponsorship
Claude Jeanrenaud

6. International Trade in Sports Goods
Wladimir Andreff

PART II: DEMAND FOR SPORT
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
Frédéric Bolotny and Jean-François Bourg

PART III: COST–BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF SPORT
12. Economic Impact Analysis
Victor Matheson

13. Physical Activity, Sport and Health
Jean-François 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

PART IV: SPORTING GOVERNANCE AND THE STATE
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-François Nys

25. Sport and Financing
Wladimir Andreff

26. Military Sport
Jean-François 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

PART V: INDIVIDUALISTIC SPORTS
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

PART VI: TEAM SPORTS
45. The Development of Team Sports Before 1914
Wray Vamplew

A. The Economics of Professional Sports and Leagues

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 García and Plácido Rodríguez

52. Football in Germany
Bernd Frick

53. Football in France
Frédéric 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

B. Principal Economic Issues

62. Uncertainty of Outcome, Competitive Balance and the Theory of Team Sports
Stefan Szymanski

63. The Objective Function of a Team
Stefan Késenne

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 Késenne

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 the European Community Law: The Example of Nationality
Jean-Christophe Breillat and Frank Lagarde

82. Sport and Globalisation: Sport as a Global Public Good
Jean-François Bourg and Jean-Jacques Gouguet

PART VII: DYSFUNCTIONS IN SPORT
83. Racial Discrimination
Neil Longley

84. Gender Discrimination
Brad R. Humphreys

85. Doping
Nicolas Eber

86. Corruption
Wolfgang Maennig

Index

About the Author

Edited by Wladimir Andreff, Professor Emeritus, University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France and Stefan Szymanski, University of Michigan, US

Reviews

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