Labour Markets in MotoGP: Supply and Demand

Paulo Reis Mourão (), Anthony Macedo () and Alexandra Oliveira ()
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Paulo Reis Mourão: University of Minho
Anthony Macedo: University of Minho
Alexandra Oliveira: University of Minho

Chapter Chapter 4 in The Economics of MotoGP, 2025, pp 51-77 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this chapter, we will discuss several aspects of demand and supply that interact in the MotoGP universe. We especially consider the labour demand and supply of drivers, as well as the demand and supply of audiences and financing. We discuss the contracts’ complex paragraphs as well as the precariousness of the riders’ side. This precariousness, in a more detailed economic reflection, is a consequence of the atomicity that characterises the riders’ side concerning the monopolistic (at least, oligopolistic) status of the contracting teams. We also study the dynamics of driver transfers between teams, especially over the last two decades. There, we confirm the central role of some of the factory teams, but also the importance of satellite teams as spaces of great dynamism observed in the transfer network.

Keywords: Markets and transfer markets; Rider transfers in MotoGP (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-95163-3_4

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