A Modern Guide to Sports Economics

This timely Modern Guide offers critical insights into developments in both professional and recreational sports through the lens of the economic forces that determine them. It explores the benefits of the relationship between sports and economics, highlighting ways that economic research can help to understand sports better and the ways that sport provides opportunities to test economic theories.

1 Introduction to A Modern Guide to Sports Economics, 1
Ruud H. Koning and Stefan Kesenne

2 Sports economics at sixty-five: one American’s perspective, 5
Rodney Fort

3 Football attendance over the centuries, 21
J. James Reade

4 Outcome uncertainty fluctuation and match demand: a plea for a competitive intensity metrics, 44
Wladimir Andreff and Nicolas Scelles

5 Competitive intensity: sporting rules generating it and impact on fan demand, 57
Nicolas Scelles and Wladimir Andreff

6 Uncertainty of outcome and competitive balance: impact, causes and cures, 70
Stefan Kesenne

7 Game uncertainty and the demand for quality seating: a pilot case study, 89
Georgios Nalbantis and Tim Pawlowski

8 Fan response to the analytics revolution in hockey: possession metrics and NHL attendance, 108
Rodney J. Paul

9 Television audience demand for football: disaggregation by gender, age and socio-economic status, 126
Babatunde Buraimo, David Forrest, Ian G. McHale and J.D. Tena

10 Does live broadcasting displace gate attendances? Evidence from the English Football League, 152
Babatunde Buraimo, Jake Owen and Rob Simmons

11 Mega-events and tourism: the case of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil and the 2016 Rio Summer Olympic Games, 174
Robert Baade, Robert Baumann and Victor Matheson

12 The 2015 Women’s World Cup and Canadian tourism, 189
E. Frank Stephenson

13 On the impact of national team tournaments on European professional football leagues, 202
Levi Pérez

14 The age-performance profile of professional and recreational marathon runners, 214
Bernd Frick

15 Dimensions of sports participation: evidence from Mexico, 226
Jaume García and María José Suárez

16 Exploring the role of sport as physical activity for health promotion in Europe, 241
Paul Downward, Pamela Wicker and Simona Rasciute

17 Labour market restrictions in English professional team sports, 258
Peter J. Sloane

18 Red cards: (mis)carriage of justice?, 269
Ruud H. Koning and Lara van Steen

19 “Form is temporary, class is permanent”: an English Premier League analysis, 281
Stefan Szymanski and Guy Wilkinson

20 Peer enforcement in teams: evidence from high-skill professional workers with repeated interactions, 294
Brad R. Humphreys and Jie Yang

21 Competing against the same team: does the length of time between the games matter? Evidence from the UEFA Champions League, 317
Alex Krumer

22 Predicting match outcomes in football by an Ordered Forest estimator, 335
Daniel Goller, Michael C. Knaus, Michael Lechner and Gabriel Okasa

Index 356