This paper investigates whether uncertainty of contest outcome and match quality matter to television viewers of New … New Zealand commercial television channel, we estimate a demand function for broadcast First Division NPC games, which is … television, and the spectacle element of matches are significant drivers of audienceship …

, we discuss how much monopoly is unavoidable in premier-level European football and how its powers can be limited and …

. The second involves French rugby and soccer as the French soccer league is generally recognised as having a more even … distribution of revenue and greater competitive balance than other major European soccer leagues. We find short- and long …-run competitive balance is higher in the Premiership, than in the Top 14, while French soccer appears more evenly balanced than rugby …

soccer, American football and tennis and also use our framework to compare the performance of empirically applied ranking …

This paper examines whether the outcome bias harms price efficiency in betting exchange markets. In soccer, the match … accurate prices for lucky and unlucky teams. Analyzing over 8,900 soccer matches, we find evidence that the prices are …

international club soccer. To this end, we analyse data of more than 2,000 recent games in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa …