Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Organizational Structure and Finances of Professional Road Cycling -- Chapter 2: The History of Professional Road Cycling and its Current Organizational Structure -- Chapter 3: The finances of Professional Cycling Teams -- Chapter 4: Sponsorship in Professional...

Part I: Introduction and Overview -- 1. Editors' Introduction and Overview -- 2. Different Types of Manipulation in Sport -- 3. Historical Evidence and Economic Analysis -- Part II: Specific Types of Manipulation in Sport -- 4. Doping in High-Performance Sport – The Economic Perspective -- 5....

Der aktuellen und brisanten Frage nach den Wirksamkeitschancen des 'Anti-Doping-Rechts' wird hier erstmals umfassend aus rechts- und sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive nachgegangen. Dabei beschäftigt sich die Autorin in der Wirksamkeitsanalyse im engeren Sinn mit den Chancen der...

Islam recommends its followers to protect the body, to enjoy full health and also prohibits them from endangering their own soul (an-Nafs) which is within their body. This study attempts to present the perspective of Islamic Shari‘ah regarding performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) used in sports....

Der aktuellen und brisanten Frage nach den Wirksamkeitschancen des „Anti-Doping-Rechts“ wird hier erstmals umfassend aus rechts- und sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive nachgegangen. Dabei beschäftigt sich die Autorin in der Wirksamkeitsanalyse im engeren Sinn mit den Chancen der...

Anti-doping rule violations (ADRVs) can lead to sports-related and legal sanctions, thus, being knowledgeable is important. Research into this knowledge and how athletes and their support personnel (ASP) perceive the control mechanisms and the appropriateness of (legal) sanctions is still...

Sports fans all over the world have recently witnessed an increasing number of spectacular doping cases, leading to considerable annoyance in the public. However, our knowledge regarding the prevalence of doping is still quite limited, leading some people to speculate that (nearly) all...

Recently, zinc oxide (ZnO) has attracted much interest, owing to its efficient photocatalytic applications. Herein, we report the synthesis of pristine and Mn-doped ZnO photocatalyst with different nanostructures. The samples were synthesized via simple and low cost co-precipitation method. The...

Transition metal oxynitride perovskites [AB(O,N)3] are an emerging class of inorganic materials with superior light harvesting ability (narrow band-gap energy) and moderate photostability. They can be utilized as visible-light-active photocatalysts for efficient solar water splitting. The...

Recently, zinc oxide (ZnO) has attracted much interest, owing to its efficient photocatalytic applications. Herein, we report the synthesis of pristine and Mn-doped ZnO photocatalyst with different nanostructures. The samples were synthesized via simple and low cost co-precipitation method. The...

Transition metal oxynitride perovskites [AB(O,N)3] are an emerging class of inorganic materials with superior light harvesting ability (narrow band-gap energy) and moderate photostability. They can be utilized as visible-light-active photocatalysts for efficient solar water splitting. The...

The chapter first reminds the statist model of sport, its overshooting Olympic performance, and reforms before its final collapse. Moving towards a market-compatible sport system during the transformational economic crisis was not without hindrances ending up into a hybrid sports industry. All...

A simple decision theoretic model shows the doping incentives for a member of a professional sports team. Depending on the detection probability and the punishment, a sportsman dopes not at all, at a medium or at the maximal level. The whole team has a higher incentive than an individual team...

A simple decision theoretic model shows the doping incentives for a member of a professional sports team. Depending on the detection probability and the punishment, a sportsman dopes not at all, at a medium or at the maximal level. The whole team has a higher incentive than an individual team...

Die Entdeckungsquote identifizierter Dopingkonsumenten ist über die Zeit relativ stabil, wenn man die Aufklärungsquote von Welt-Anti-Doping-Agentur (WADA) bzw. Nationaler-Anti-Doping-Agentur (NADA) in Deutschland betrachtet. Wie immer, wenn sich soziale Verhaltensweisen und institutionelle...

1. Global criminal networking in sport: online betting-related match-fixing -- 2. Challenging standard economics and policies -- 3. Doping: which economic crime in sport? -- 4. Moving beyond inefficient policies to combat doping -- 5. Conclusion

An authority delegates a monitoring task to an agent. It can only observe the number of detected offenders, but neither the monitoring intensity chosen by the agent nor the resulting level of misbehavior. We provide a necessary and sufficient condition for the implementability of monitoring...

Corruption in general and doping in particular are ubiquitous in both amateur and professional sports and have taken the character of a systemic threat. In creating unfair advantages, doping distorts the level playing field in sporting competition. With higher stakes involved, such distortions...

Unethical behavior within organizations is not rare. We investigate experimentally the role of status-seeking behavior in sabotage and cheating activities aiming at improving one’s performance ranking in a flat-wage environment. We find that average effort is higher when individuals are...

There is little evidence in support of the main economic rationale for regulating athletic doping: that doping reduces fan interest. The introduction of random testing for performance-enhancing drugs (PED) by Major League Baseball (MLB) offers unique data to investigate the issue. The...

An authority delegates a monitoring task to an agent. It can only observe the number of detected offenders, but neither the monitoring intensity chosen by the agent nor the resulting level of misbehavior. We provide a necessary and sufficient condition for the implementability of monitoring...

An authority delegates a monitoring task to an agent. It can only observe the number of detected offenders, but neither the monitoring intensity chosen by the agent nor the resulting level of misbehavior. We provide a necessary and sufficient condition for the implementability of monitoring...

We analyze the doping behavior of heterogeneous athletes in an environment of private information. In a n-player strategic game, modeled as an all-pay auction, each athlete has private information about his actual physical ability and choses the amount of performance-enhancing drugs. The use of...

Referentinnen und Referenten, die in Fragen der Olympischen Spiele, der Olympischen Idee, aber auch in Olympischen Problemen sachkundig und ausgewiesen sind, haben sich in einer Ringvorlesung an der Universität des Saarlandes einer Frage gewidmet: Sind Olympische Spiele noch zeitgemäß? Dabei...

Neben der Bewahrung der olympischen Idee und der Organisation der Olympischen Spiele liegt die Vermarktung des Wettbewerbs im Aufgabenbereich des IOC. Hierbei wird jedoch nicht nur die sportliche Leistung im Wettkampf vermarktet, sondern ein komplementäres Gut, bestehend aus der sportlichen...

Unethical behavior within organizations is not rare. We investigate experimentallythe role of status-seeking behavior in sabotage and cheating activities aiming at improving one’sperformance ranking in a flat-wage environment. We find that average effort is higher whenindividuals are...

To which extent high performances in professional sports are based on the use of illicit substances or other doping practices is extremely difficult to measure empirically. Game-theoretical approaches predict strong incentives to dope based on the interaction among athletes (prisoner's dilemma)...

This paper analyzes TV demand for cycling in Flanders. Using data for 338 Tour de France broadcasts, average and peak TV audience per stage is estimated by an OLS regression model. A first set of independent variables measures the importance of stage scheduling and includes variables that define...

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This paper studies the long-term impact of societal socialization on values using the example of doping behavior in sports. We apply the German Reunification Approach to the microcosm of Berlin and exploit its 40-year long division into a capitalist and a communist sector. We deliberately chose...

We analyze the doping behavior of heterogeneous athletes in an environment of private information. In a n-player strategic game, modeled as an all-pay auction, each athlete has private information about his actual physical ability and choses the amount of performance-enhancing drugs. The use of...

This paper studies the long-term impact of societal socialization on values using the example of doping behavior in sports. We apply the German Reunification Approach to the microcosm of Berlin and exploit its 40-year long division into a capitalist and a communist sector. We deliberately chose...