Local governments often justify subsidizing sports stadiums as economic development projects that have positive returns on investment. If this is true, economic and quality-of-life spillovers that are capitalized in local property values ought to generate additional tax revenue for host...

Um ihre angestrebten, betragsmäßig häufig erheblichen Investitionsziele realisieren zu können, greifen Fußballunternehmen immer häufiger auf Fan- oder Mittelstandsanleihen zurück. Meist führt die emotionale Bindung eines Fans zu seinem Verein dazu, dass die aus der Anleihe erwarteten...

Um ihre angestrebten, betragsmäßig häufig erheblichen Investitionsziele realisieren zu können, greifen Fußballunternehmen immer häufiger auf Fan- oder Mittelstandsanleihen zurück. Meist führt die emotionale Bindung eines Fans zu seinem Verein dazu, dass die aus der Anleihe erwarteten...

Professional sports leagues have witnessed the appearance of so-called "sugar daddies" - people who invest enormous amounts of money into clubs and become their owners. This paper presents a contest model of a professional sports league that incorporates this phenomenon. We analyze how the...

On May 24, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case American Needle v. Nat'l Football League that the National Football League's trademark licensing practices are subject to review under Section 1 of the Sherman Act. This ruling reversed an earlier decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for...

In the recent years, many clubs in the biggest European soccer leagues have run into debts. The sports economic literature provides several explanation for this development, e.g., the league structure (open versus closed league), club constitutions, ruinous rat races between clubs. While the...