Die FIFA Fußball-WM 2006 hat in Deutschland einen Boom bei Stadioninvestitionenausgelöst. Eine zweite Welle ist derzeit bei mittelgroßen Projekten zu beobachten, mit denenkleinere Bundesligisten und Zweitligisten den Anschluss an die Top-Klubs zu halten versuchen.[...]

This paper gives a first economic approach to pro cycling and analyses the changes induced bythe newly introduced UCI Pro Tour on the racing teams’ behaviour. We develop an oligopolistic model startingfrom the well known Cournot framework to analyse if the actual setting of the UCI Pro Tour...

The effect of the three-point rule in first league German soccer are tested empirically and compared to games freom the German cup-competition. The inclusion of cup games ensures that changes in league games can be attributed to the three-point rule.[...]

In 2020, gamers spent more than $15 billion on loot boxes, lotteries of virtual items in video games. Loot boxes are contentious. Regulators argue they constitute gambling, while game producers maintain they complement gameplay. In a prototypical mobile puzzle game we show that gameplay...

With legal sports betting being viewed as a panacea for state budget woes across the United States, the underlying data that fuels the sports betting industry has emerged as an especially valuable asset. In the hopes of capitalizing on state laws that have now legalized sports betting, U.S....

The day of reckoning in the to-pay-or-not-to-pay debate over college revenue sports — a day many higher education advocates have awaited for decades — is just about here. Many people believe that the debate will yield one of two outcomes: university trustees will pay the players, or they...

Given its high level of regulation, the gambling industry must be able to react quickly to litigation and resulting change in policy (and enforcement thereof). Using a case study approach, this short paper highlights how the twin issues of policy and litigation have recently impacted the...

Using law and policy as a sustainable competitive advantage source is a recent research stream. This paper illustrates how legal and policy research contributes to firms' strategy in the regulated gambling industry, defined by legislation and jurisprudence. The gambling sector has been a...

Finally, an analysis of the present situation in EU gambling and sport betting after the recent ECJ decisions will be attempted, via scenarios from primary (national MS practices, policies, and case law) and secondary (Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, 2006; European Gaming and Betting...

We propose a model of addictive consumption to study the demand for imperfect substitutes involving substances like alcohol, nicotine and opioids, as well as behavioral addictions like gambling and digital addiction. We study a 2017 Italian policy aimed at reducing gambling by limiting the...