Handbook on the Economics of Sport

Wladimir Andreff, Stefan Szymanski

Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006 - Sports & Recreation - 830 pages

This comprehensive Handbook provides a survey of all the major research areas in sports economics written by almost all of the active researchers in this field. It offers not only an accessible insight into the major findings of the literature but also presents some of the world’s principal researchers’ views on the unanswered questions that face us today.

Contents

• sport and economics: 1
• PART I SPORT IN THE ECONOMY: 9
• 1 Sports accounting: 11
• 2 The production of professional team sports: 22
• 3 The sports goods industry: 27
• 4 Sport and gambling: 40
• 5 Sponsorship: 49
• 6 International trade in sports goods: 59
• PART II DEMAND FOR SPORT: 69
• 7 The demand for sport: 71
• 8 The demand for spectator sports: 77
• 9 Attendance at sports events: 90
• 10 The demand for sports broadcasting: 100
• 11 The demand for media coverage: 112
• PART III COSTBENEFIT ANALYSIS OF SPORT: 135
• 12 Economic impact analysis: 137
• 13 Physical activity sport and health: 143
• 14 Employment in sport: 153
• 15 Sporting externalities: 168
• 16 The economic impact of megasporting events: 177
• 17 The Olympics: 183
• 18 The World Cup: 197
• 19 The economic impact of sporting facilities: 214
• 20 Voluntary work in sport: 219
• PART IV SPORTING GOVERNANCE AND THE STATE: 225
• 21 Governance and governing bodies in sport: 227
• 22 The economics of the IOC: 241
• 23 Government objectives and sport: 254
• 24 Central government and sport: 260
• 25 Sport and financing: 271
• 26 Military sport: 282
• 27 Local government and regional development in sport: 287
• 28 The European model of sport: 299
• 29 The AngloAmerican model of sport: 304
• 30 Sport in developing countries: 308
• 31 Soviet and postsoviet sport: 316
• 32 International labour migration: 325
• 33 Comparative advantage of nations: 331
• PART V INDIVIDUALISTIC SPORTS: 335
• 34 The theory of tournaments: 337
• 35 Implications from the theory of contests for modelling and designing sports competitions: 342
• the production of world records in the running and technical disciplines in track and eld: 349
• 37 On the competitive structure in professional boxing or why the best boxers very seldom fight each other: 364
• 38 Golf: 369
• 39 The economics of British horseracing: 374
• 40 The economics of collegiate athletics: 379
• 41 The economics of US intercollegiate sports and the NCAA: 389
• 42 The economics of cycling: 398
• 43 Extreme sports climbing and mountaineering: 411
• 44 The economics of tennis: 418
• PART VI TEAM SPORTS: 433
• 45 The development of team sports before 1914: 435
• Section A The Economics of Professional Sports and Leagues: 441
• 46 Organisational models of professional team sports leagues: 443
• 47 Baseball economics: 447
• 48 The economics of soccer: 451
• 49 Football in England: 459
• 50 The state of the Italian football industry: 463
• 51 The economics of soccer in Spain: 474
• 52 Football in Germany: 486
• 53 Football in France: 497
• 54 American football: 514
• the NBA: 523
• 19922002: 530
• 57 Ice hockey: 542
• 58 The economic development of the Australian Football League: 552
• strategy and structure: 565
• 60 The economics of professional rugby: 573
• 61 The economics of cricket: 585
• Section B Principal Economic Issues: 595
• 62 Uncertainty of outcome competitive balance and the theory of team sports: 597
• 63 The objective function of a team: 601
• 64 Production functions for sporting teams: 610
• 65 Revenue sharing: 616
• 66 The reserve clause in Major League Baseball: 619
• 67 The retain and transfer system: 630
• 68 The Bosman case and European football: 636
• 69 The reverseorderofnish draft in sports: 643
• 70 Chasing the elusive salary cap: 646
• 71 The luxury tax in professional sports: 652
• player unions in soccer: 661
• 73 The player transfer system in soccer: 668
• 74 Player agents: 677
• 75 The promotion and relegation system: 685
• 76 Team sports and finance: 689
• 77 Inelastic sports pricing at the gate? A survey: 700
• the case of English Premiership soccer: 709
• 79 Collective selling of broadcast rights in team sports: 719
• 80 The sporting exception and the legality of restraints in the US: 730
• the example of nationality: 735
• sport as a global public good: 744
• PART VII DYSFUNCTIONS IN SPORT: 755
• 83 Racial discrimination: 757
• 84 Gender discrimination: 766
• 85 Doping: 773
• 86 Corruption: 784
• Index: 795

Bibliographic information

• Title: Handbook on the Economics of Sport; Elgar original reference
• Editors: Wladimir Andreff, Stefan Szymanski
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006
• ISBN: 1847204074, 9781847204073
• Length: 830 pages
• Subjects: Sports & Recreation / Business Aspects