Handbook on the economics of sport / edited by Wladimir Andreff, Stefan Szymanski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Andreff, Wladimir, 1946-

Szymanski, Stefan, 1960-

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

Series:

Elgar original reference

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports--Economic aspects--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Sports.

Professional sports--Economic aspects--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Professional sports.

Professional sports--Economic aspects.

Sports--Economic aspects.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

xviii, 830 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, [2006]

Contents:

List of contributors

Introduction : Sport and economics / Wladimir Andreff and Stefan Szymanski

pt. 1. Sport in the economy

1. Sports accounting / Wladimir Andreff

2. The production of professional team sports / Jeff Borland

3. The sports goods industry / Wladimir Andreff

4. Sport and gambling / David Forrest

5. Sponsorship / Claude Jeanrenaud

6. International trade in sports goods / Wladimir Andreff

pt. 2. Demand for sport

7. The demand for sport / Jean-Jacques Gouguet

8. The demand for spectator sports / Rob Simmons

9. Attendance at sports events / Patrick Feehan

10. The demand for sports broadcasting / Babatunde Buraimo

11. The demand for media coverage / Frédéric Bolotny and Jean-François Bourg

pt. 3. Cost-benefit analysis of sport

12. Economic impact analysis / Victor Matheson

13. Physical activity, sport and health / Jean-François Nys

14. Employment in sport / Didier Primault

15. Sporting externalities / Jean-Jacques Gouguet and Eric Barget

16. The economic impact of mega-sporting events / Robert A. Baade

17. The Olympics / Holger Preuss

18. The World Cup / Markus Kurscheidt

19. The economic impact of sporting facilities / Brad R. Humphreys

20. Voluntary work in sport / Wladimir Andreff

pt. 4. Sporting governance and the state

21. Governance and governing bodies in sport / Thomas Hoehn

22. The economics of the IOC / Jean-Loup Chappelet

23. Government objectives and sport / Barrie Houlihan

24. Central government and sport / Jean-François Nys

25. Sport and financing / Wladimir Andreff

26. Military sport / Jean-François Nys

27. Local government and regional development in sport / Carlos Pestana Barros

28. The European model of sport / Peter J. Sloane

29. The Anglo-American model of sport / Stefan Szymanski

30. Sport in developing countries / Wladimir Andreff

31. Soviet and post-Soviet sport / Sandrine Poupaux

32. International labour migration / Wladimir Andreff

33. Comparative advantage of nations / Wladimir Andreff

pt. 5. Individualistic sports

34. The theory of tournaments / Stefan Szymanski

35. Implications from the theory of contests for modelling and designing sports competitions / Gerd Muehlheusser

36. Citius, altius, fortius : the production of world records in the running and technical disciplines in track and rield / Bernd Frick, Joachim Prinz and Frank Tolsdorf

37. On the competitive structure in professional boxing, or, why the best boxers very seldom fight each other / Rafael Tenorio

38. Golf / Chantelle Bramley

39. The economics of British horseracing / Wray Vamplew

40. The economics of collegiate athletics / Karl W. Einolf

41. The economics of US intercollegiate sports and the NCAA / Robert Sandy

42. The economics of cycling / Michel Desbordes

43. Extreme sports (climbing and mountaineering) / Gilles Rotillon

44. The economics of tennis / Eric Barget

pt. 6. Team sports

45. The development of team sports before 1914 / Wray Vamplew

Section A : The economics of professional sports and leagues

46. Organisational models of professional team sports leagues / Andrew Zimbalist

47. Baseball economics / Stefan Szymanski

48. The economics of soccer / John Goddard

49. Football in England / Stefan Szymanski

50. The state of the Italian football industry / Umberto Lago

51. The economics of soccer in Spain / Jaume García and Plácido Rodríguez

52. Football in Germany / Bernd Frick

53. Football in France / Frédéric Bolotny

54. American football / Michael Leeds

55. Labour economics on the hardwood : the NBA / David J. Berri

56. European professional basketball in crisis, 1992-2002 / Didier Primault

57. Ice hockey / Marc Lavoie

58. The economic development of the Australian Football League / Ross Booth

59. Rugby : strategy and structure / John McMillan

60. The economics of professional rugby / Pierre Chaix

61. The economics of cricket / Ian Preston

Section B : Principal ecomonics issues

62. Uncertainty of outcome, competitive balance and the theory of team sports / Stefan Szymanski

63. The objective function of a team / Stefan Késame

64. Production functions for sporting teams / Jeff Borland

65. Revenue sharing / Stefan Szymanski

66. The revenue clause in Major League Baseball / Lawrence Hadley

67. The retain and transfer system / Dennis Thomas

68. The Bosman case and European football / Stefan Késenne

69. The reverse-order-of-finish draft in sports / Leo H. Kahane

70. Chasing the elusive salary cap / Daniel R. Marburger

71. The luxury tax in professional sports / Elizabeth Gustafson

72. 'At the top table' : player unions in soccer / Braham Dabscheck

73. The player transfer system in soccer / Fiona Carmichael

74. Player agents / Daniel S. Mason

75. The promotion and relegation system / Stefan Szymanski

76. Team sports and finance / Wladimir Andreff

77. Inelastic sports pricing at the gate? : a survey / Rodney Fort

78. Financial innovation in professional team sports : the case of English Premiership soccer / Bill Gerrard

79. Collective selling of broadcast rights in team sports / Susanne Parlasca

80. The sporting exception and the legality of restraints in the US / Stefan Szymanski

81. The specificity of sport and the European Community law : the example of nationality / Jean-Christophe Breillat and Frank Lagarde

82. Sport and globalisation : sport as a global public good / Jean-François Bourg and Jean-Jacques Gouguet

pt. 7. Dysfunctions in sport

83. Racial discrimination / Neil Longley

84. Gender discrimination / Brad R. Humphreys

85. Doping / Nicolas Eber

86. Corruption / Wolfgang Maennig

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

1843766086

9781843766087

OCLC:

60669162