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Third party money injections of benefactors (sugar daddies) function as a bailout mechanism for otherwise insolvent football clubs. The successful implementation of the new UEFA "financial fair play" regulations will abrogate this bailout mechanism. We develop a theoretical model of a...
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Comparisons between European and North American sports leagues have occurred over the years. In this paper, we attempt …
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This paper outlines and compares the organizational structure of major sports leagues, explores the reasoning behind … their formation, and derives implications for salary caps in European football. To understand why sports leagues have … developed a specific organizational structure, one must take the economic peculiarities of team sports leagues into …
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The release of players from a club to the national team often leads to a conflict concerning the duration of the players' stay with the national team. Based on a theoretical bargaining model, we examine whether intervention in this conflict by a governing body is desirable. We show that...
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This paper applies contest theory to provide an integrated framework of a team sports league and analyses the …
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Abstract: In the recent years, many clubs in the biggest European soccer leagues have run into debts. The sports … equilibrium concept, I apply evolutionary game theory in a sports contest model. If clubs follow evolutionarily stable strategies …
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Die Regulierung von ManagergehŠltern ist derzeit ein viel diskutiertes Thema in Politik und Medien. In diesem Beitrag wird ein Sektor analysiert, der eine lange Tradition der Gehaltsregulierung aufweist: der professionelle Mannschaftssport. Wir untersuchen die wichtigsten Regulierungspraktiken...
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In this paper, we provide an analysis of the principal economic issues in the professional team sports industry. We …
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Comparisons between European and North American sports leagues have occurred over the years. In this paper, we attempt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757719
Abstract: In the recent years, many clubs in the biggest European soccer leagues have run into debts. The sports … equilibrium concept, I apply evolutionary game theory in a sports contest model. If clubs follow evolutionarily stable strategies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739906