Sports Economics Review

2023 - 2026

Current editor(s): Alex Krumer and Stefan Szymanski

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Announcement of the 2025 best paper of Sports Economics Review: Luís Cabral and Shucheng Liao
Strategic pairings in professional doubles tennis: The role of the strongest and weakest players: Jeong Yeol Kim, David Sungho Park and Chungeun Yoon
Does weather condition predict the outcome of super-elite chess games?: Maryam Dilmaghani and Hui Xiao
The economics of sportscast revenue sharing: Gustavo Bergantiños and Juan Moreno-Ternero

Transforming talent into performance: Efficiency heterogeneity, strategic behavior, and welfare in sports leagues: Marco Henriques Pereira and Markus Lang
Do subjective and compensatory scores matter? an empirical analysis of Ski jumping competitions: Kjetil K. Haugen and Andrew Musau
The impact of foreign player absence on domestic player performance: A COVID-19 natural experiment: Jiang Jin, Di Yang, Yaokai Liu and Lihua He

Review for the beautiful dataset: Alex Krumer and Stefan Szymanski
Is the UEFA champions league fair?: Luís Cabral and Shucheng Liao
Do team-level calculations support “the idea of WAR”? Implications for Wins production estimation in baseball: Rodney Fort, Finn McMichael and Randal R. Rucker

Creative innovation in golf course architecture and retrospective judgments of quality: Daniel Ackerberg and Douglas J. Hodgson
Foul Play: The impact of financial incentives on aggression in sports: Jeffrey Cisyk, Pascal Courty and Amin Kouhbor
On bogey teams and circular triads: Psychological factors in team performance: Jan C. van Ours

A Bayesian framework for analyzing alleged cheating in sports through hidden codes, with applications to bridge and baseball: Aafko Boonstra and Ronald Meester
Physical decline rates: Men versus women: Ray C. Fair
Effects of physical activity on cognition in children and adolescents: From core concepts to findings and implementation in practise: Carina Steckenleiter
Referee bias in football: Actual vs. expected additional time: Alperen Kocsoy

‘Good job!’ the impact of positive and negative feedback on performance: Daniel Goller and Maximilian Späth
Within-game uncertainty of outcome and the demand for professional basketball on television: John Solow, Patrick Reilly and Peter von Allmen
Competing against former teammates predicts team victory: Satyam Mukherjee, Yun Huang, Brian Uzzi and Noshir Contractor
Comparing two methods for testing the efficiency of sports betting markets: Tadgh Hegarty and Karl Whelan

Is there a nationality wage premium in European football?: Alex Farnell, David Butler, Giambattista Rossi, Robert Simmons, David Berri and Esperance Yassine Bamba
Professionals do play Minimax: Revisiting the Nash equilibrium in Major League Baseball: Jean-François Mercier
Momentum-stopping: Effects on performance: Matías José Gómez Seeber
Incentives matter sometimes: On the differences between league and Cup football matches: Jan C. van Ours and Martin van Tuijl

The transfer market for sports players - A contest theory approach: Yizhaq Minchuk
Competitive balance in professional sports: A multi-dimensional perspective: Levi Bognar, Scott A. Brave, R. Andrew Butters and Kevin A. Roberts
Hockey babies: National Hockey League outcomes and short-term fertility spikes in Canada: Maryam Dilmaghani and Min Hu

No novelty effect but a honeymoon that lasts: On the attendance effects of new football stadiums: Jan C. van Ours
Does every game matter? A new perspective on the league standing effect in major league baseball: Jeremy M. Losak and Shane A. Halpin
Did the Wizards help Washington dodge bullets?: Brian Meehan and E. Frank Stephenson
Demonstration of the collusion risk mitigation effect of random tie-breaking and dynamic scheduling: Waldemar Stronka

A short summary of the first year: Alex Krumer and Stefan Szymanski
Testing a variant of match-level outcome uncertainty using historical data from the European Champion Clubs’ Cup: Barry Reilly
Football finance and Covid-19: Mobolaji Alabi and Andrew Urquhart
The Thrash to the Onion Patch: Boat-length and the Newport to Bermuda race: Adam Witham, Brian Leite and Teresa Starzecki
The minimum concentration of points in sports leagues without ties: Francisco Triguero-Ruiz, P. Dorian Owen and Antonio Avila-Cano

Has financial fair play changed European football?: Ariela Caglio, Sébastien Laffitte, Donato Masciandaro and Gianmarco Ottaviano
Economic analysis of the 12th man: Should the fans be paid?: Luc Arrondel, Jean-Pascal Gayant and Jean-François Laslier
Impacts of rule changes on the MLS SuperDraft: Sean Hellingman, Zilin Wang and Mary Thompson
Willingness to pay for hosting the Tour de France: Christian Gjersing Nielsen and Arne Feddersen
Do sporting events amplify airborne virus transmission? Causal evidence from US professional team sports: Alexander Cardazzi, Brad R. Humphreys, Jane E. Ruseski, Brian P. Soebbing and Nicholas Watanabe

Ghost games and ex-post viewing preferences for the English Premier League: Evidence from YouTube highlights: David Butler and Robert Butler
Fair travel distances in tournament schedules: A cooperative game theory approach: Ondrej Osicka and Mario Guajardo
The age-performance relationship for a cognitive-intensive task: Empirical evidence from chess grandmasters: Adriaan Kalwij and Kris De Jaegher
Competitiveness in Formula One: Ronald Peeters and Dennis Wesselbaum
Doping and uncertainty of outcome: Kjetil K. Haugen

Sports economics: Time for a new journal: Alex Krumer and Stefan Szymanski
Estimated costs of injuries in college and high school female sports: Ray C. Fair and Christopher Champa
Broadcasting La Liga: Gustavo Bergantiños and Juan Moreno-Ternero
Effort maximization in contests under balance constraints: Aner Sela
The consequences of promotion and relegation in European soccer leagues: A regression discontinuity approach: Jamin D. Speer
Maradona plays Minimax: Ignacio Palacios-Huerta