Historically, European team sports leagues were run by their respective national and international associations and were legally independent from the professional clubs playing in these leagues. Recently, European leagues have adopted an organizational form similar to their North American...

In contrast to the U.S., European coverage of top-selling sports tends to move to subscription-TV. The literature provides several explanations for this distinct development in the U.S. and Europe: The TV sports market in the U.S. is characterized by substitution effects due to the existence of...

Historically, European team sports leagues were run by their respective national and international associations and were legally independent from the professional clubs playing in these leagues. Recently, European leagues have adopted an organizational form similar to their North American...

Professional sports leagues in Europe and the United States exhibit many differences. Among others such as the existence of mechanisms providing dis- incentives for spending (e.g. salary caps) the fundamental di¤erence is the organizational arrangement of clubs and the governing body of the...

Im letzten Jahrzehnt konnten die Clubs in den großen nationalen Fußballligen in Europa ihre Autonomie gegenüber den Fußballverbänden erheblich stärken. Wenn diese Tendenz weitergeht, dann werden vor allem die europäischen Spitzenclubs irgendwann mit den gleichen organisatorischen...

Historically, European team sports leagues were run by their respective national and international associations and were legally independent from the professional clubs playing in these leagues. Recently, European leagues have adopted an organizational form similar to their North American...

We argue that competition in higher education improves efficiency only if a number of restrictive conditions are fulfilled. We expose their restrictiveness, and we argue that such conditions are unlikely to be fulfilled in Germany or elsewhere in mainland Europe. We believe that claims that...

We develop an industry specific model of price competition with product differentiation to analyze the effect of entry regulation on process innovation in the Swiss mail industry. We consider the four most prominent scenarios: regulated monopoly, end-to-end competition, worksharing without...