"When the Rogers Place arena opened in downtown Edmonton in September 2016, no amount of buzz could drown out the rumours of manipulation, secret deals, and corporate greed undergirding the project. Working with documentary evidence and original interviews, the authors present an absorbing...

This paper investigates the factors that influence the change in passenger ski-lift transports between a normal winter and an anomalously mild winter based on individual lift and aggregate ski-area data. Special focus is placed on the return on investments in new ski lifts. Using endogenous...

Overconfidence is a well-established bias in which someone's subjective confidence in their own judgments is systematically greater than their objective accuracy. There is abundant anecdotal evidence that overconfident people increase their exposure to risk. In this paper, we test whether...

The present thesis examines if and to what extent microeconomic theory can explain the observable behavior of individuals in competitive environments. On the basis of self-compiled datasets from (professional) sports competitions as well as a widely broadcasted TV quiz-show two research...

An econometric model which has first been estimated on medal wins at Summer Olympics and has predicted 88% of medal distribution at Beijing Games 2008, is revisited for Winter Olympics. After changing some variables to take into account the winter sports specificity, the model is estimated again...

Considering the increasing stress of competition in winter sports, e.g., caused by the increasing popularity of sun holidays in the winter season or recently developed new ski areas, cable-car companies have to optimize their price-performance ratio with a modified marketing management approach....

Fußballclubs nutzen zunehmend Anleihen als Finanzierungsoption. Für Unternehmen anderer Sportarten existieren aktuell keine Untersuchungen. Der Beitrag widmet sich daher einer Potenzialanalyse derartiger Fan-Anleihen für Basketball-, Handball- und Eishockeyunternehmen. Aus theoretischer Sicht...