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The paper presents results from two natural experiments on the impact of revenue sharing and salary caps on competitive balance in sports leagues arising from the introduction of professionalism in Rugby Union in 1995. The first involves the English Premiership, which traditionally applied a...
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The paper analyses the impact of the relatively belated move to professionalism in Rugby Union. We use data on match attendance for 3,667 fixtures in European club Rugby over 15 seasons to estimate the effect of competitive balance on attendance. We find that (short- and medium-term) competitive...
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play (FFP) initiative by UEFA (the Union of European Football Associations) as an example, we demonstrate that the …
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football. …
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difficult search for a convincing theory of harm justifying the brutal enforcement of single-homing by the incumbent (section V). …
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System, originally introduced in 2004-2005 with the aim to regulate the world of European football and create a more … a common assumption - that football clubs are special firms for reasons of economics and political economy - all but one … trigger unfair competition in football leagues, as well as freezing existing hierarchies in European soccer. The paper …
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