We apply ideas put forward in the literature on the international coordination of macroeconomic and trade policies to study the merits of an international coordination of antidoping policies. Without international coordination of antidoping policies, sports associations and National Antidoping...

Potential positive external effects of sports clubs often serve to justify their public subsidization. We study the effects of subsidies that sports clubs receive in the form of direct monetary financial transfers from public authorities and sport federations. To this end, we study a panel...

Our research contributes to recent literature on the socioeconomic determinants of Olympic success at the national level. We find that less corruption increases the chances of national Olympic success. Copyright International Atlantic Economic Society 2013

Auf der Basis eines mittels einer Onlinebefragung erhobenen Datensatzes wird auf der Basis der haushalts- bzw. konsumgütertheoretischer Überlegungen und verhaltenstheoretischer Konzepte untersucht, wie der Umfang der von ehrenamtlich Engagierten in Fußballvereinen geleisteten Arbeit von der...

We apply ideas put forward in the literature on the international coordination of macroeconomic and trade policies to study the merits of an international coordination of antidoping policies. Without international coordination of antidoping policies, sports associations and national anti-doping...

We develop a simple two-country model to trace out conditions under which countries join the international fight against doping. We show that the support for an internationally coordinated anti-doping policy depends on the extent to which the rules of the anti-doping fight, as formulated by the...

We analyzed whether, in democratic open societies, economic and demographic conditions allow sporting success at the aggregate level to be predicted. Theoretical considerations led to the hypothesis that the population size and gross domestic product (GDP) per capita should be important...

Confronted with a significant devaluation pressure on the euro, the European Central Bank (ECB) tried in the fall of 2000 to influence the dynamics of the euro through foreign exchange market interventions. In this paper, we analyze the effectiveness of the intervention policy of the ECB. To...

This paper uses a dynamic general equilibrium two-country optimizing model to analyse the consequences of international capital mobility for macroeconomic volatility. To this end, the dynamic macroeconomic effects of a monetary policy, a fiscal policy, and a labor supply shock are analysed....