Journal of Sports Economics

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Volume 12, issue 6, 2011

Measuring Technical Efficiency in Sports pp. 579-598

Trevor Collier, Andrew Johnson and John Ruggiero

Mega-Events: Is Baylor Football to Waco What the Super Bowl is to Houston? pp. 599-620

Dennis Coates and Craig Depken

Red Cards pp. 621-646

Mario Mechtel, Agnes Bäker, Tobias Brändle and Karin Vetter

Do Relief Pitching and Remaining Games Create Moral Hazard Problems in Major League Baseball? pp. 647-659

Kevin Baldini, Mark T. Gillis and Matt E. Ryan

A Test for Bias of Inherent Characteristics in Betting Markets pp. 660-665

William H. Dare and Steven A. Dennis

Book Review: Review of Hot Stove Economics Understanding Baseball’s Second Season pp. 666-669

Thomas Rhoads

Volume 12, issue 5, 2011

Playoff Uncertainty and Pennant Races pp. 495-514

Anthony Krautmann, Young Hoon Lee and Kevin Quinn

Estimation of a Structural Model of the Determinants of the Time Spent on Physical Activity and Sport pp. 515-537

Jaume García, Fernando Lera-López and María José Suárez

The Effect of Home Advantage, Momentum, and Fighting on Winning in the National Hockey League pp. 538-560

Benjamin Leard and Joanne Doyle

Time on Camera pp. 561-570

Peter Groothuis, Jana D. Groothuis and Kurt W. Rotthoff

Book Review: Sport and Public Policy: Social, Political and Economic Perspectives pp. 571-573

Andrew Zimbalist

Volume 12, issue 4, 2011

Game Theoretic Analysis of Basic Team Sports Leagues pp. 407-431

Paul Madden

Investigating Allegations of Pointshaving in NCAA Basketball Using Actual Sportsbook Betting Percentages pp. 432-447

Rodney Paul and Andrew Weinbach

The Designated Hitter Rule and the Distribution of Pitching Talent Across Leagues pp. 448-463

Robert Tollison and Octavian Vasilescu

The Willingness to Pay to Keep a Football Club in a City: How Important are the Methodological Issues? pp. 464-486

Pablo Castellanos, Jaume García and José Manuel Sánchez

Book Review: Mark Yost Varsity Green: A Behind the Scenes Look at Culture and Corruption in College Athletics 2010. ISBN-13: 9780804769693, $24.95 208 pp pp. 487-489

Zenon X. Zygmont

Volume 12, issue 3, 2011

2010 Lawrence H. Hadley Award Distinguished Service Award pp. 227-228

Aju Fenn, Tony Krautmann and Evan Osborne

Editors’ Introduction pp. 229-230

David Berri and Brad Humphreys

Performance Under Pressure in the NBA pp. 231-252

Zheng Cao, Joseph Price and Daniel Stone

When Going in Circles is Going Backward: Outcome Uncertainty in NASCAR pp. 253-283

Jason P. Berkowitz, Craig Depken and Dennis P. Wilson

Competitive Balance and Revenue Sharing in Sports Leagues With Utility-Maximizing Teams pp. 284-308

Helmut Dietl, Martin Grossmann and Markus Lang

A Nash Bargaining Model of the Salaries of Elite Free Agents pp. 309-316

John Solow and Anthony Krautmann

Gender Differences in Competitive Orientations: Empirical Evidence from Ultramarathon Running pp. 317-340

Bernd Frick

Top Prospects and Minor League Baseball Attendance pp. 341-351

Seth Gitter and Thomas Rhoads

Determinants of Demand for Televised Live Football: Features of the German National Football Team pp. 352-369

Arne Feddersen and Armin Rott

Press Pass: Payoffs to Media Exposure Among National Football League (NFL) Wide Receivers pp. 370-390

Julianne Treme and Samuel K. Allen

Productivity and New Audiences: Empirical Evidence From Professional Basketball pp. 391-403

Christian Deutscher

Volume 12, issue 2, 2011

Has the NFL’s Rooney Rule Efforts ‘‘Leveled the Field’’ for African American Head Coach Candidates? pp. 127-142

Janice Fanning Madden and Matthew Ruther

Skin Tone and Wages: Evidence From NBA Free Agents pp. 143-156

John Robst, Jennifer VanGilder, Corinne E. Coates and David J. Berri

Win or Go Home: Why College Football Coaches Get Fired pp. 157-178

Paul Holmes

Soccer Attendees’ Preferences for Facilities at the Fionia Park Stadium: An Application of the Discrete Choice Experiment pp. 179-199

Line Bjørnskov Pedersen, Astrid Kiil and Trine Kjær

Research Note: Estimates of College Football Player Rents pp. 200-212

Robert Brown

The Role of Uncertainty of Outcome and Scoring in the Determination of Fan Satisfaction in the NFL pp. 213-221

Rodney Paul, Yoav Wachsman and Andrew Weinbach

Book Review: Kevin G. Quinn Sports and Their Fans: The History, Economics, and Culture of the Relationship Between Spectator and Sport Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 2009. 259 pp. ISBN 978-0-7864-3802-0 $35.00 pp. 222-224

Victor Matheson

Volume 12, issue 1, 2011

Peer Effects in Team Sports: Empirical Evidence From NCAA Relay Teams pp. 3-19

Craig Depken and Lisa E. Haglund

Game Information, Local Heroes, and Their Effect on Attendance: The Case of the Japanese Baseball League pp. 20-35

Eiji Yamamura

Does the Australian Football League Draft Undervalue Indigenous Australian Footballers? pp. 36-54

Heather Mitchell, Constantino Stavros and Mark F. Stewart

Using ‘‘Dominetrics’’ to Impose Greater Discipline on Performance Rankings pp. 55-80

Scott Beaulier and Robert Elder

General Ability and Specialization: Evidence From Penalty Kicks in Soccer pp. 81-105

Florian Baumann, Tim Friehe and Michael Wedow

The Reverse Favorite-Longshot Bias in the National Hockey League: Do Bettors Still Score on Longshots? pp. 106-117

Linda M. Woodland and Bill M. Woodland

Book Review: Placido Rodriguez, Stefan Kesenne, and Jaume Garcia Threats to Sports and Sports Participation Oviedo, Spain: University of Oviedo, 2008. 207 pp 18. ISBN: 978-84-8317-754-9 pp. 118-121

Paul D. Staudohar

Volume 11, issue 6, 2010

Optimal Competitive Balance in Single-Game Ticket Sports Leagues pp. 587-601

Rodney Fort and James Quirk

The Role of Fatigue in NBA Wagering Markets: The Surprising ‘‘Home Disadvantage Situation’’ pp. 602-613

Thomas Ashman, R. Alan Bowman and James Lambrinos

Determinants of Minor League Baseball Attendance pp. 614-628

Seth Gitter and Thomas Rhoads

Television Broadcast Demand for National Football League Contests pp. 629-640

Scott Tainsky

Brazilian Football League Technical Efficiency: A Simar and Wilson Approach pp. 641-651

Carlos Barros, Albert Assaf and Fabio Sá-Earp

Book Review: Mark S. Rosentraub Major League Winners: Using Sports and Cultural Centers as Tools for Economic Development Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, Price: $59.95 (from the publisher’s website) ISBN: 978-1-4398-0159-8 pp. 652-656

Craig Depken

Volume 11, issue 5, 2010

A New Test of Compensating Differences: Evidence on the Importance of Unobserved Heterogeneity pp. 475-495

Marios Michaelides

Learning by Doing, Knowledge Spillovers, and Technological and Organizational Change in High-Altitude Mountaineering pp. 496-532

John R. Boyce and Diane P. Bischak

Travel Costs in the NBA Production Function pp. 533-548

Andrew W. Nutting

Measuring the Performance of Nations at Beijing Summer Olympics Using Integer-Valued DEA Model pp. 549-566

Jie Wu, Zhixiang Zhou and Liang Liang

Returns to Stardom: Evidence From U.S. Major League Soccer pp. 567-579

Todd Kuethe and Mesbah Motamed

Book Review: Fans of the World, Unite! A (Capitalist) Manifesto for Sports Consumers pp. 580-583

Raymond D. Sauer

Volume 11, issue 4, 2010

The Effects of Higher Admission Standards on NCAA Student-Athletes: An Analysis of Proposition 16 pp. 363-382

Joshua A. Price

Corruption in Professional Sumo: An Update on the Study of Duggan and Levitt pp. 383-396

Helmut Dietl, Markus Lang and Stephan Werner

Voter Bias in the Associated Press College Football Poll pp. 397-417

B. Jay Coleman, Andres Gallo, Paul Mason and Jeffrey W. Steagall

Can We Be Satisfied With Our Football Team? Evidence From Spanish Professional Football pp. 418-442

Francisco González-Gómez and Andres Picazo-Tadeo

Not So Fast, My Friend: Biases in College Football Polls pp. 443-455

Mark Witte and McDonald Paul Mirabile

Valuing Cricketers Using Hedonic Price Models pp. 456-469

Ajit Karnik

Volume 11, issue 3, 2010

The Effect of Incentives on Sabotage: The Case of Spanish Football pp. 243-260

Julio del Corral, Juan Prieto-Rodríguez and Rob Simmons

The Demand for Environmental Quality: An Application of Hedonic Pricing in Golf pp. 261-286

Frank Limehouse, Peter C. Melvin and Robert McCormick

Estimating Production Efficiency in Men’s NCAA College Basketball: A Bayesian Approach pp. 287-315

Michael S. Rimler, Seongho Song and David T. Yi

Estimating Attendance at Major League Baseball Games for the 2007 Season pp. 316-348

Robert J. Lemke, Matthew Leonard and Kelebogile Tlhokwane

Designated Hitter Rule Debate: A Search for Mr. Hyde in Pitchers pp. 349-357

Akihiko Kawaura

The Payoff to Leadership in Teams pp. 358-360

Stacey Brook

Volume 11, issue 2, 2010

Editors’ Introduction pp. 115-116

Brad Humphreys and Dennis Coates

Tournament Incentives, League Policy, and NBA Team Performance Revisited pp. 117-135

Joseph Price, Brian Soebbing, David Berri and Brad Humphreys

Happiness and Physical Activity in Special Populations: Evidence From Korean Survey Data pp. 136-156

Young Hoon Lee and Ilhyeok Park

On the Evaluation of the ‘‘Most Important’’ Position in Professional Sports pp. 157-171

David J. Berri and Stacey L. Brook

The Ebbs and Flows of the Game: Multiple Equilibria in a Sports League Model pp. 172-185

Duane Rockerbie and Stephen Easton

Top Clubs’ Performance and the Competitive Situation in European Domestic Football Competitions pp. 186-202

Tim Pawlowski, Christoph Breuer and Arnd Hovemann

Why Do Some Kinds of Stars Get the Calls? pp. 203-213

Evan Osborne

Impact of Advance Ticket Sales on Attendance in the Finnish Football League pp. 214-226

Antti Iho and Jaakko Heikkilä

Comment on Hanssen and Meehan, ‘‘Who Integrated Major League Baseball Faster Winning Teams or Losing Teams?’’ pp. 227-231

Christopher J. Coyne, Justin P. Isaacs and Jeremy T. Schwartz

Response to Coyne et al pp. 232-235

F. Andrew Hanssen and James W. Meehan

Who Integrated Major League Baseball Faster Winning Teams or Losing Teams? A Comment pp. 236-238

Brian L. Goff and Robert Tollison

Volume 11, issue 1, 2010

Observation, Replication, and Measurement in Sports Economics pp. 3-16

Rodney Fort

Reflections on Salary Shares and Salary Caps pp. 17-28

Andrew Zimbalist

Working in the Land of the Metricians pp. 29-47

David J. Berri and John Bradbury

Issues With Replicating Results in Sports Economics pp. 48-59

Jason Winfree

Problems With Data on the Sport Industry pp. 60-76

Brad Humphreys and Jane E. Ruseski

Competitive Balance in the National Football League After the 1993 Collective Bargaining Agreement pp. 77-88

Travis Lee

Quit Behavior of Professional Tennis Players pp. 89-99

Hannah Geyer

The Myth of Scheduling Bias With Back-to-Back Games in the NBA pp. 100-105

Yvan J. Kelly

Book Review: Sports Economics. Theory, Evidence and Policy Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2009. 419 pp pp. 106-108

P. Downward, A. Dawson, T. Dejonghe, Christoph Breuer, Tim Pawlowski and Pamela Wicker