A Modern Guide to Sports Economics

Edited by Ruud Koning and Stefan Kesenne

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This timely Modern Guide offers critical insights into developments in both professional and recreational sports through the lens of the economic forces that determine them. It explores the benefits of the relationship between sports and economics, highlighting ways that economic research can help to understand sports better and the ways that sport provides opportunities to test economic theories.

Keywords: Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
ISBN: 9781789906523
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction to A Modern Guide to Sports Economics , pp 1-4

Ruud Koning and Stefan Kesenne

Ch 2 Sports economics at sixty-five: one American’s perspective , pp 5-20

Rodney Fort

Ch 3 Football attendance over the centuries , pp 21-43

J Reade

Ch 4 Outcome uncertainty fluctuation and match demand: a plea for a competitive intensity metrics , pp 44-56

Wladimir Andreff and Nicolas Scelles

Ch 5 Competitive intensity: sporting rules generating it and impact on fan demand , pp 57-69

Nicolas Scelles and Wladimir Andreff

Ch 6 Uncertainty of outcome and competitive balance: impact, causes and cures , pp 70-88

Stefan Kesenne

Ch 7 Game uncertainty and the demand for quality seating: a pilot case study , pp 89-107

Georgios Nalbantis and Tim Pawlowski

Ch 8 Fan response to the analytics revolution in hockey: possession metrics and NHL attendance , pp 108-125

Rodney Paul

Ch 9 Television audience demand for football: disaggregation by gender, age and socio-economic status , pp 126-151

Babatunde Buraimo, David Forrest, Ian G. McHale and Juan de Dios Tena

Ch 10 Does live broadcasting displace gate attendances? Evidence from the English Football League , pp 152-173

Babatunde Buraimo, Jake Owen and Rob Simmons

Ch 11 Mega-events and tourism: the case of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil and the 2016 Rio Summer Olympic Games , pp 174-188

Robert Baade, Robert Baumann and Victor Matheson

Ch 12 The 2015 Women’s World Cup and Canadian tourism , pp 189-201

E. Frank Stephenson

Ch 13 On the impact of national team tournaments on European professional football leagues , pp 202-213

Levi Pérez

Ch 14 The age-performance profile of professional and recreational marathon runners , pp 214-225

Bernd Frick

Ch 15 Dimensions of sports participation: evidence from Mexico , pp 226-240

Jaume García and María José Suárez

Ch 16 Exploring the role of sport as physical activity for health promotion in Europe , pp 241-257

Paul Downward, Pamela Wicker and Simona Rasciute

Ch 17 Labour market restrictions in English professional team sports , pp 258-268

Peter Sloane

Ch 18 Red cards: (mis)carriage of justice? , pp 269-280

Ruud Koning and Lara van Steen

Ch 19 “Form is temporary, class is permanentâ€: an English Premier League analysis , pp 281-293

Stefan Szymanski and Guy Wilkinson

Ch 20 Peer enforcement in teams: evidence from high-skill professional workers with repeated interactions , pp 294-316

Brad Humphreys and Jie Yang

Ch 21 Competing against the same team: does the length of time between the games matter? Evidence from the UEFA Champions League , pp 317-334

Alex Krumer

Ch 22 Predicting match outcomes in football by an Ordered Forest estimator , pp 335-355

Daniel Goller, Michael Knaus, Michael Lechner and Gabriel Okasa

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