This comprehensive Handbook provides a survey of all the major research areas in sports economics written by almost all of the active researchers in this field. It offers not only an accessible insight into the major findings of the literature but also presents some of the world’s...

In this paper, we survey the recent literature on long-term relationships between banks and firms. We present successively the gains but also the costs of relationship lending. A lot of articles emphasize the gains : savings in information costs, better access to funds for firms, better...

The inclusion of classroom experiments in courses is one of the major innovations in the teaching of economics. The experimental approach is a very efficient pedagogic tool that allows a more intuitive and comprehensive presentation of theoretical concepts without necessarily implying a less...

In this article, the author incorporates fair play norms into the analysis of the basic performance-enhancing drug game proposed in 2004 by Haugen (in the Journal of Sports Economics). In some cases, it leads to a modification in the very nature of the game, switching it from a prisoner's...

[eng] Selection and exclusion in the banking sector . For any bank, the crucial point is to discriminate the « good » customer from the « bad ». Thus the need for systematic method to discriminate. This discrimination is made difficult due to the existence of information asymetries. . JEL...

From the Olympics to the World Cup, mega sporting events are a source of enjoyment for tens of thousands of people, but can also be a source of intense debate and controversy. This insightful Handbook addresses a number of central questions, including: How are host cities selected and under what...

This article argues that the antidoping policy faces a credibility problem very similar to that identified for the conduct of the monetary policy. Using a theoretical framework a la Barro-Gordon in which athletes form rational expectations about authorities' effort against doping, the author...