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Der ehrenamtlich organisierte Breitensport, der Basis für einen erfolgreichen Spitzensport ist, sieht sich deutlich veränderten Rahmenbedingungen gegenüber. Einerseits erfordert eine erfolgreiche Nachwuchsförderung für den Spitzensport auf breiter Ebene exzellente Trainingsbedingungen für...
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A review of The Economics of Association Football, edited by Bill Gerrard.
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There are at least two reasons why multiple prizes can be optimal in symmetric imperfectly discriminating contests. First, the introduction of multiple prizes reduces the standard deviation of contestants’ effort in asymmetric equilibria, when the majority of contestants actively participate...
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This paper identifies matches on the male and female professional tennis tours in which one player faces a high payoff from being “on the bubble” of direct entry into one of the lucrative Grand Slam tournaments, while their opposition does not. Analyzing over 378,000 matches provides strong...
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European space reunites, as known, ethnic entities with the most eclectic traditions and defining features. Yet, in spite of the growing tendencies towards globalization, harmonizing them usually proves to be difficult to achieve. Throughout time, some common values and principles and an...
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This paper identifies matches on the male and female professional tennis tours in which one player faces a high payoff from being “on the bubble” of direct entry into one of the lucrative Grand Slam tournaments, while their opposition does not. Analyzing over 378,000 matches provides strong...
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hence detection is dicult; sport offers a well-measured context in which individual actions are documented in great detail …. In recent years the sport of cricket, which records a huge volume of statistics, has been beset by a number of corruption …
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.In several cases, however, leagues won in court, on the ground that sport cannot be considered a standard good.In this paper, we …
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We analyze a dynamic model of strategic interaction between a professional sport league that organizes a tournament … expected profits, while the league's objective may be either to maximize the demand for the sport or to maximize the teams … performance-based reward scheme (used by European sport leagues) may be optimal. Under joint profit maximization, full revenue …
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As the cost of tax-dollar paid stadia rises and the talks of relocations in the main North-American pro leagues increase, a multi-field analysis on the different mechanisms that decides team relocation seems necessary. This paper reviews the different mechanisms participating team location and...
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