This article reviews international literature on the demand for professional sport. The first part presents a … for professional sport, and that there are no simple lessons to be drawn from existing literature. But important messages …

The future of research on demand for sport lies in the integration of time series approaches from sports economics and … the survey-based approaches from the sports marketing and consumer behaviour literature, a focus upon leagues other than … elite-level major leagues in each nation, and in new efforts to generate richer datasets on the nature of (potential) sports …

themes. This first volume explains how economics aids sports through the systematic application of economic theory and logic …Shmanske and Kahane have organized over 50 essays from prominent sports economists into two volumes around two related … to the institutions in sports. …