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The Economic Consequences of Foreigner Rules in National Sports Leagues

Lang, Markus; Rathke, Alexander; Runkel, Marco - 2010

This paper provides a contest model of a professional team sports league and analyzes the impact of a restriction on foreign players. It shows that a league with binding restrictions on foreign talent for all clubs is more balanced than a league without binding restrictions on foreign talent....

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Soft Budget Constraints in French Football through Public Financing of Stadiums?

Moulard, Jérèmy; Lang, Markus; Dermit-Richard, Nadine - 2022

Several football stadiums were built or renovated in France for hosting the 2016 UEFA European Football Championship … case study in the context of the construction and renovation of eight football stadiums in France that took place between … that local governments in French professional football are "supporting organizations" and help to ensure the financial …

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The Price of Success and Labour in Sports – Evidence from Match-day Ticket Pricing Strategies in the English Premier League

Quansah, Tommy Kweku; Buraimo, Babatunde; Lang, Markus - 2022

Match-day revenue is still an important source of income for many professional sports clubs. This paper studies the determinants of ticket pricing in professional sports and examines whether stadium visitors pay a premium for teams’ sporting success and any excesses in the players’ labour...

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Talent Concentration and Competitive Imbalance in European Soccer

Frick, Bernd; Quansah, Tommy Kweku; Lang, Markus - 2022

homogenous distribution. The longitudinal data we use to estimate our empirical model comes from professional soccer leagues in … interventions, the promotion and relegation system in the open European soccer leagues seems to be quite effective in ensuring a …

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