The Impact of Salary Cap Violations in the NRL

Thomas Longden

Review of Environment, Energy and Economics - Re3, 2014

Abstract: A salary cap has been in place in one of Australia’s most popular professional sports since 1990. Since 2001 there have been multiple cases where rugby league teams were found to have notably violated the salary cap. Separate incidents were found to have occurred at the Canterbury Bulldogs, the New Zealand Warriors and the Melbourne Storm. In recent research, these salary cap breach amounts have been attributed to an improved home team win record in the case of the Melbourne Storm and the Canterbury Bulldogs. This article discusses recent work conducted by Longden and Kannard (2014) to calculate the impact of these salary cap violations.

Keywords: Sports economics; Salary cap; Rugby league (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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