The determination of transfer fees in English nonleague football

Stephen Dobson, Bill Gerrard and Simon Howe

Applied Economics, 2000, vol. 32, issue 9, 1145-1152

Abstract: In recent years a number of studies have analysed the player transfer market in English professional football. This paper examines whether similar factors operate to determine transfer fees in the semiprofessional, or nonleague, game. An empirical model of the nonleague player transfer market is developed in which observed transfer fees are determined by player characteristics, time effects, selling-club characteristics and buying-club characteristics. Using data on 114 transfer fees covering the period 1988 to 1997, we find evidence that the data generating process for transfer fees is broadly similar in both professional and nonleague football.

Date: 2000
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