Using data on wrestlers and tournaments since the early 1970s, we study promotion practices in Sumo, a Japanese traditional sport. We show that, especially since 2010, foreign-born wrestlers trying to attain the second highest rank in Sumo were treated less favorably than Japanese born...

Sports civic organizations are essential for Hungarian society, especially for young people's lives, constituting a crucial part of the corpus of civil society organizations. The performance and output of these were rarely examined; still, activity forms of an organization and their managerial...

Between sports and happiness. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio- Economic Panel (GSOEP), we find a positive correlation between sports participation and reported life satisfaction. This relationship is stronger at younger and older ages than in middle age, and for people in bad...

Globalisation affects not only politics and the economy, but also sport, which has become significantly more international, competitive and financially powerful. This is particularly advantageous for most consumers or spectators. Especially top athletes benefit, while not so good athletes can...

We describe how the presence of insiders with superior information about potential outcomes of sporting events affects odds set by bookmakers, using a generalized version of the model in Shin (1991). The model has been widely cited as an explanation for the pattern of favorite-longshot bias...

Marcus, Siedler and Ziebarth (2022 American Economic Journal: Economic Policy) examine the long-run health effects of a universal sports-club voucher program that was introduced in Saxony for primary school children in 2009. In 2018, the authors designed a survey that targeted the affected...

This comment addresses the opinion of the Advocate General (AG) of the European Court of Justice on the pending case European Super League versus UEFA/FIFA. It takes a critical perspective on selected aspects of the opinion’s reasoning from a (sports) economics perspective. Highlighting the...

Sporting associations that act as regulators and are also active in organizing sporting events are well-established in many sports. However, given that there is a risk that they might exploit their regulatory power to foreclose organizers of rival events, the question arises as to how far EU...

Lately, due attention has been given to eSports in the academic literature and recent discussions revolve around whether eSports can be regarded as sports. Conceptually assuming that sports and eSports are two entities, we conduct a structural comparison between the two, relying on a theoretical...

When should a sports organiser be allowed to prohibit athletes or clubs from participating in a competitor’s event? Recent EU competition cases including European Super League and International Skating Union have made this a particularly topical question. After outlining the ‘specificity of...

Large sporting events have non-trivial externalities, where net social benefits can differ from net private benefits. In this chapter we particularly explore the relationship between large sporting events and public health and safety considerations, surveying the relevant literature. The...

This study aims to investigate the relevance of brand trust and customer satisfaction to sports marketing practices. A sample population of 150 e-commerce and online advertising professionals will be analyzed using various methods, including regression analysis, descriptive statistics, and...

Sports books frequently offer bettors a variety of promotions as either marketing tools or incentives to enter into certain bets. Here, I examine three such promotions - bet-and-gets, bet insurance, and odds boosts - and for each determine optimal risk adjusted unhedged bets as a function of the...

We examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on participants' expenditures in sports events. Specifically, we analyze survey data collected from participants of a major amateur cycling race, capturing information about both utilitarian and hedonic expenses. Our investigation covers three waves...

We propose that stakeholder demand can explain firms’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities and empirically test our proposition using 2002-2016 panel data from multiple countries. We select the Olympic Games as our experimental context and use a difference-in-differences design. We...

Teaching is one of the hardest occupations according to the International Organization of Teachers (IOT), affecting teachers' emotional and physical well-being and impacting their professional performance. Intervention programs addressing this issue usually result in a significant reduction in...

Teachers in junior and senior high schools in Japan are expected to voluntarily coach a sports club. For appropriate coaching, understanding the characteristics of the students, who are in adolescence, is important but not easy, considering the current social issue of overwork among school...

Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders in the state. The policy’s objective was to encourage them to develop a long-term habit of exercising. In 2018, we carried out a large register-based survey among several...

Globalization brings lots of cultural changes. These changes also affected sports culture. It makes some sports more popular while some lose their popularity. Pakistan field hockey is among those victims. A national sport of Pakistan with bright history is now in the worst condition. In this...

The purpose of this chapter is to examine the participation legacy of hosting international events in Australia, drawing on the 2003 Rugby World Cup as the main case study. The chapter draws on a variety of data sources including rugby registration data collected by state and national rugby...