Advances in the economics of sport.
By: editor Wallace Hendricks.
Contributors: Hendricks, Wallace E.
Publisher: JAI Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Greenwich, Conn; London, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Subjects: Professional sports -- Economic aspects.; Sports -- Economic aspects.; College sports -- Economic aspects.
Table of contents: value: Introducing a competitive economic environment into professional sports / Rodney Fort and James Quirk; value: A model of a professional sports league / Daniel A. Rascher; value: Cities under siege : how the changing financial structure of professional sports is putting cities at risk and what to do about it / Robert A. Baade and Allen R. Sanderson; value: Following the leader : race and player behavior in the 1987 NFL strike / Cynthia L. Gramm and John F. Schnell; value: Using baseball card prices to assess free agency / Charles J. Mullin and Lucia F. Dunn; value: Do long-term contracts influence performance in major league baseball? / Joel G. Maxcy; value: Setting rules in the NCAA cartel / Lawrence DeBruck and Wallace Hendricks; value: Gender equity and the economics of college sports / Andrew Zimbalist; value: Graduation rates of NFL players / Lawrence DeBrock, Wallace Hendricks, and Roger Koenker.