In this paper, we study the applicability of success in women's football as an indicator for female empowerment. Since football was for a long time a male-dominated sport, women's success in this sport may be a suitable empowerment measure. As a proxy variable for success, we employ the world...

A well-known finding in of sport economics is that differences in the winning probabilities of sport teams are determined largely by unequal market sizes and, therefore, revenue potential. Larger markets yield higher marginal revenue and thus, more units of talent being employed by the...

A new measure of competitive balance in sport leagues is proposed, based on a vector approach to measuring similarity. The standard measures, such as, the win percentage standard deviation ratio, consider the inequality per season only. Analyzing the inequality of a competition over time...