The paper presents the differences between the design of a closed and an open team sports league. Then it compares the theoretical models of a closed league with profit maximizing clubs and an open league with win maximizing clubs. Both models are now outdated by a Nash equilibrium model which...

The paper analyses the new trend of outward foreign direct investment (FDI) by multinational companies from emerging countries, in particular the BRICs, in developed countries to question the applicability of the traditional HOS theoretical framework to this trend. A literature review shows that...

Les dysfonctionnements qui ont marqué le processus de transition des pays communistes vers l'économie de marché se sont propagés, par l'ouverture et la concurrence internationale, à tous les pays de l'économie capitaliste mondiale.

The chapter describes international players (athletes) transfers with a focus on South to North flows. The issues generated by illegal teenage players transfers are tackled. A solution is suggested: to introduce a Coubertobin tax at an increasing rate for teenage players.

Avec la mondialisation économique du sport, l'audience de l'événement sportif est soumise à incertitude et à une attractivité peu prédictible. L'une et l'autre peuvent être réduites par des régulations : régulation des ligues sportives professionnelles, régulation par changement des...

The author seeks an answer to the question what the unheeded practical and theoretical issues backing both the quantitative success and the quantitative failure story of privatisation are? Among those listed in this paper, management coalitions, the blurred dividing line between shareholders and...