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The collective sale of football broadcasting rights constitutes a cartel, which, in the European Union, is only allowed if it complies with a number of conditions and obligations, inter alia, partial unbundling and the no-single-buyer rule. These regulations were defined with traditional...
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Financial regulation in sports is usually discussed in the context of representing an instrument against "financial …
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Practices and conducts in professional and even amateur sports can be subject to competition laws as soon as commercial … influences attractiveness and marketability of the sports in question. After discussing fundamental issues, this contributions … reviews selected landmark cases in sports competition policy from an economic perspective. This includes the U.S. baseball …
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doing sports business. Driven by the courts, the 2007 overhaul of the approach and methodology has increased the scope of … competition policy towards sports associations and clubs. Nowadays, virtually all activities of sports associations that govern … and organize a sports discipline with business elements are subject to antitrust rules. This includes genuine sporting …
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In this paper, we discuss from an economic perspective two alternative views of restrictions of competition by sports … associations. The horizontal approach views such restrictions as an agreement among the participants of a sports league with the … sports association merely representing an organization executing the horizontal cooperation. In contrast, the vertical …
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We revisit the incentive effects of elimination tournaments with a fresh approach to identification, the results of which strongly support that performance improves under the threat of elimination and does so, but only in part, due to increases in risk taking. Where we can separately identify...
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Financial regulation in sports is usually discussed in the context of representing an instrument against “financial …
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In this study, we employ the novel measure of a VAR-based spillover index, developed by Diebold and Yilmaz (2012) to investigate the time-varying relationship between tourism and economic growth in selected European countries. Overall, the findings suggest that (i) the tourism-economy...
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The present research has been developed within the EU FP7 VECTORS project (http://www.marine-vectors.eu/). The main scope of the project (2011 - 2015) has been to evaluate, from a multilateral perspective, drivers, pressures and vectors of changes in marine life of three main European seas...
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We analyze the impact of three different transfer fee systems on payoffs, contract lengths, training and effort incentives in European football. The different regimes, being used until 1995 (?Pre-Bosman? or P), currently in use (?Bosman? or B), and recently approved (?Monti? or M) differ with...
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