Compares and contrasts revenues and costs, labor markets, market structures and outcomes, and policy issues in sports economics around the world.
Tables and Figures Preface Western Europe - Overall Issues Professional Sport in Europe: Which Economic Model? by Jean-Francois Bourg Is There a European Model of Sport? by Stefan Szymanski Still Up for Grabs? Maintaining the Sporting and Financial Viability of European Soccer by Bill Gerrard Western Europe - Labor Issues The European and U.S. Sports Labor Markets by Paul D. Staudohar Economic Analysis of the Transfer Market in European Professional Soccer by Jean-Jacques Gouguet and Didier Primault Should the International Mobility of Teenage Talented Players from Developing Countries Bye Regulated? by Wladimir Andreff Western Europe - Competitive Balance Issues Economic Inequalities within and between Professional Football Leagues in Europe: Sporting Consequences and Policy Options by H. F. Moorhouse Buying Success: Relationahips Between Team Performance and Wage Bills in the U.S. and European Sports Leagues by Robert Simmons and David Forrest Revenue Sharing Arrangements and the Survival of Promoted Teams: Empirical Evidence from the European Soccer Leagues by Bernd Frick and Joachim Prinz Western Europe - League Evolution, Broadcasting, and the Stock Market Common Origins, Common Future? A Comparative Analysis of Association and Rugby League Football in the UK by Paul Downward and Ian Jackson Sport and Broadcasting: Comparisons between the USA and Europe by Chris Gratton and Harry Arne Solberg Stock Market Flotation and the Finance and Management of Professional Soccer Clubs in Europe by Stephen Dobson and John Goddard Canadian Professional Football The Professional Football Industry in Canada: Economic and Policy Issues by Neil Longley Southern Hemisphere Rugby Union Professionalization of Southern Hemisphere Rugby Union by P. Dorian Owen and Clayton R. Weatherston Brazilian Football An Overview of Brazilian Football by Antonio Carlos Kfouri Aidar, Clarissa Bueno de Ameida, and Renato Giosa Miralla Japanese and Korean Baseball Japanese and North American Baseball: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of the Effects of Rule Changes by Akihiko Kawaura and Sumner J. Lacroix Competitive Balance and Attendance in Japanese, Korean, and U.S. Professional Baseball Leagues by Young Hoon Lee Australia Professional Sporting Competitions in Australia by Robert D. MacDonald and Jeff Borland Labour Market Intervention, Revenue Sharing and Competitive Balance in the Australian Football League, 1897-2002 by Ross Booth Australian Professional Team Sports In a State of Flux by Braham Dabscheck Bibliography Index About the Contributors
RODNEY FORT is Professor of Economics at Washington State University. The author of dozens of articles and monographs on sports economics, he serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Sports Economics. He is a regular speaker and panel participant on sports issues in the United States and Europe, and he has testified before the U.S. Senate on competitive balance issues and often renders expert opinion in legal cases in the United States.
JOHN FIZEL is Professor of Economics and Chair of the iMBA program at Penn State University. He conducts research in applied microeconomic topics that have included online auctions, nursing home efficiency, and the economics of sports. He is co-editor of Baseball Economics (Praeger, 1996) and Sports Economics (Praeger, 1999).
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"�T�his is a worthwhile complement to other scholarly compilations.
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"[T]his is a worthwhile complement to other scholarly compilations.
Recommended. Public and academic library collections."-Choice
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