Contemporary issues in sports economics
Subtitle: participation and professional team sports
By: edited by Wladimir Andreff
Series: New horizons in the economics of sport
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cheltenham; Northampton, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9781849804479
Subjects: Economic aspects; Professional sports; Sports
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Contemporary issues in sports economics : a selection / Wladimir Andreff; title: Participation, spectatorship and media coverage in sport : some initial insights / Peter Dawson and Paul Downward; title: Relational goods at work! Crime and sport participation in Italy : evidence from panel data regional analysis over the period 1997-2003 / Raul Caruso; title: Sport financing and governance in Europe / Stefan Szymanski; title: The effect on player transfers of a luxury tax on club payrolls : the case of Major League Baseball / Joel G. Maxcy; title: The role of information in professional football and the German football betting market / Frank Daumann and Markus Breuer; title: Guessing who wins or predicting the exact score : does it make any difference in terms of the demand for football pools? / Jaume García, Levi Pérez, Plácico Rodríguez; title: Is European football's future to become a boring game? / Wladimir Andreff, Gaël Raballand.