https://www.sportseconomics.org/sports-economics/the-decline-of-an-american-tradition-round-ii
Economics of Sport - The Economics of Sport
By Gary Burns Recently I spoke about the structural change in the American Heavyweight boxing division and in particular its decline in recent decades. Below...
economics of sport
https://www.sportseconomics.org/sports-economics/the-end-of-day-effect
Economics of Sport - The Economics of Sport
By David Butler Over the years sport has acted as a useful domain to study decision making under risk and uncertainty. This is because incentives are at work...
economics of sport
https://www.sportseconomics.org/sports-economics/age-is-just-a-number
Economics of Sport - The Economics of Sport
By Ed Valentine Vienna is not entirely typical of the sort of location a group of lads in their early 20s would choose to go for a few nights in the summer....
economics of sport
https://www.sportseconomics.org/sports-economics/competitive-balance-todays-champions-league-draw
Economics of Sport - The Economics of Sport
By Robbie Butler In November 2013 I wrote a piece on the predictability of the Champions League and how European football’s premier competition was potentially...
economics of sport
https://www.sportseconomics.org/sports-economics/pay-as-you-go-go-go-what-it-costs-to-be-in-the-driving-seat
Economics of Sport - The Economics of Sport
By Ed Valentine It’s very hard to get into Formula 1 and it’s even harder to stay there. There are only 22 men in the world that can claim to be an F1 driver...
economics of sport
https://www.sportseconomics.org/sports-economics/relegation-and-releases
Economics of Sport - The Economics of Sport
By Robbie Butler With the Festive season approaching the volume of live football shown on our screens tends to ramp up even further (if that is possible!). The...
economics of sport
https://www.sportseconomics.org/sports-economics/fans-and-doping-in-sport
Economics of Sport - The Economics of Sport
economics of sport
https://www.sportseconomics.org/sports-economics/howard-webb-and-imposing-penalties
Economics of Sport - The Economics of Sport
economics of sport
https://www.sportseconomics.org/sports-economics/summer-break
Economics of Sport - The Economics of Sport
As always, we are taking our summer break. We'll be back on Monday 20th of July. Until then the website will be undergoing maintenance - apologies if there are...
economics of sport
https://www.sportseconomics.org/sports-economics/why-do-golfers-earn-more-than-tennis-players
Economics of Sport - The Economics of Sport
economics of sport
https://www.sportseconomics.org/sports-economics/ghost-games-and-ex-post-viewing-preferences-for-the-english-premier-league-evidence-from-youtube-highlights
Economics of Sport - The Economics of Sport
By David Butler Many studies have considered the impact of behind closed-door sporting events. Issues such as home advantage, odds pricing, attendance demand...
economics of sport
https://www.sportseconomics.org/sports-economics/capital-city-size-and-the-success-of-their-football-clubs
Economics of Sport - The Economics of Sport
economics of sport
https://www.sportseconomics.org/sports-economics/more-incentives-in-la-vuelta
Economics of Sport - The Economics of Sport
economics of sport
https://www.sportseconomics.org/sports-economics/the-five-day-penalty-kick
Economics of Sport - The Economics of Sport
By Robbie Butler Chapter 6 of Kuper and Syzmanski’s wonderful So ccernomics provides a great insight into the penalty kick. Entitled The Economist’s Fear of...
economics of sport
https://www.sportseconomics.org/sports-economics/world-cup-squads-are-getting-taller-on-average
Economics of Sport - The Economics of Sport
By David Butler In Any Given Sunday Toni D'Amato (Al Pacino) tells the Miami Sharks that just like life, football is a game of inches and “that when we add up...
economics of sport
https://www.sportseconomics.org/sports-economics/world-cup-break
Economics of Sport - The Economics of Sport
The blog will be on a break for the next two weeks as the contributors watch game after game, after game, after game, from the FIFA World Cup. The next post...
economics of sport
https://www.sportseconomics.org/sports-economics/too-few-vaccines-too-much-diving
Economics of Sport - The Economics of Sport
economics of sport
https://www.sportseconomics.org/sports-economics/salary-caps-and-the-english-football-league
Economics of Sport - The Economics of Sport
By Robbie Butler Since football almost everywhere has been forced to play behind closed doors many aspects of the game have come on the radar. One such area of...
economics of sport
https://www.sportseconomics.org/sports-economics/bonus-incentives-and-team-effort-levels-evidence-from-the-field
Economics of Sport - The Economics of Sport
By Robbie Butler Last week our paper Bonus Incentives and Team Effort Levels: Evidence from the ‘Field’ was accepted for publication in the Scottish Journal of...
economics of sport
https://www.sportseconomics.org/sports-economics/the-lorenz-curve-for-snooker
Economics of Sport - The Economics of Sport
By David Butler Last week I presented some data relating to prize money allocations in golf and horse racing . As a corollary, below is a Lorenz curve showing...
economics of sport
https://www.sportseconomics.org/sports-economics/christmas-break1504065
Economics of Sport - The Economics of Sport
Our blog will now take its customary Christmas break and return on Monday the 29th of January 2024. We would like to wish all our readers a very Happy...
economics of sport
https://www.sportseconomics.org/sports-economics/anti-doping-test-figures
Economics of Sport - The Economics of Sport
economics of sport
https://www.sportseconomics.org/sports-economics/where-eagles-dare-clean-sheets-helped-to-bed-in-palace
Economics of Sport - The Economics of Sport
By Ed Valentine What would you say is the most memorable defensive performance in football history? The 2010 Champions League semi final second leg between...
economics of sport
https://www.sportseconomics.org/sports-economics/adidas-and-the-world-cup-ball
Economics of Sport - The Economics of Sport
By Robbie Butler A nice story of monopoly. Adidas has held the monopoly right over production of the FIFA World Cup ball since 1970. As is often the case...
economics of sport
https://www.sportseconomics.org/sports-economics/archives/03-2016/2
Economics of Sport - The Economics of Sport
The 2nd sportseconomics.org Workshop will be held on Friday 22nd of July 2016 at University College Cork. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss and...
economics of sport
https://www.sportseconomics.org/sports-economics/italian-referees-react-to-incentives
Economics of Sport - The Economics of Sport
economics of sport
https://www.sportseconomics.org/sports-economics/complements-or-substitutes
Economics of Sport - The Economics of Sport
By David Butler Recently, Andrea Agnelli (head of European football clubs association) has spoken of the need for innovations in the way European football...
economics of sport
https://www.sportseconomics.org/sports-economics/keeping-tabs-on-the-experts
Economics of Sport - The Economics of Sport
By David Butler This website has a 'Follow the Pundit!' section where I keep tabs on two football experts who make systematic predictions for the English...
economics of sport
https://www.sportseconomics.org/sports-economics/the-olympics-intangible-concepts-and-hard-currency
Economics of Sport - The Economics of Sport
The Irish Times had a lovely piece by Johnny Watterson on the conflict for cities when considering an Olympic bid ( here ). His last paragraph illustrates some...
economics of sport
https://www.sportseconomics.org/sports-economics/book-reviewed-in-the-journal-of-sports-economics
Economics of Sport - The Economics of Sport
By Jessica Considine
economics of sport
https://www.sportseconomics.org/sports-economics/xgs-so-far-in-the-epl
Economics of Sport - The Economics of Sport
economics of sport