Floating European football clubs in the stock market

Michel Aglietta, Wladimir Andreff and Bastien Drut

No 2010-24, EconomiX Working Papers from University of Paris Nanterre, EconomiX

Abstract: Since the first initial public offering of a European football (soccer) club in 1983, more than forty other clubs have experienced a venture in the stock market. In this paper, it is investigated how much relevant and successful these experiences of listing and floating football clubs at the stock exchange have been. First, by showing that investing in the Dow Jones StoXX Football index is of little attractiveness in the perspective of an investor's efficient overall asset allocation. Then in examining the determinants of a football club's fair value and the relationship between stock performances and sporting results. Finally, an approach (alternative to the Anglo-American model of capitalism) of corporate governance, based on the concept of a soft budget constraint, is applied to European football clubs taking stake of their lasting financial deficits and debts. This alternative theoretical approach paves the way for an empirical testing of a vicious circle between negotiating higher TV rights revenues and player wage inflation.

JEL-codes: G12 G30 G34 Z19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2010
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