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This paper analyses the technical efficiency of the Mozambique football league from 2008 to 2014 using a Bayesian stochastic frontier model with exponential specification. Covariates include contextual characteristics such as location, identification as a Muslim club, and sporting performance. The ...

Author(s)
Barros, C. P.; Mandlaze, D.; Tainsky, S.
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
Applied Economics, 2016, 48, 31, pp 2965-2971
Abstract

This chapter evaluates the extent to which the degree of competitive balance found in the more centralized North American leagues matches that found in the more 'competitive' European leagues. The standard deviation of win percentage in each of 4 European soccer leagues (the English Premiere League ...

Author(s)
Szymanski, S.; Smith, R.
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, Cheltenham, UK
Citation
Transatlantic sport: the comparative economics of North American and European sports, 2002, pp 109-124
Abstract

This chapter estimates a willingness-to-accept (WTA) for the role of amateur sports organization manager, using data from a questionnaire distributed among sports club managers (n=100; with a response rate of 62%) on the island of Madeira (Portugal) in late 1999 and early 2000. Results indicate...

Author(s)
Barros, C. P.; Lucas, J.
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, Cheltenham, UK
Citation
Transatlantic sport: the comparative economics of North American and European sports, 2002, pp 204-216
Abstract

This article shows how some regional economics tools, which are not very well known, can be used in the field of sport. The first part consists of a short summary of the location analysis models. In the second part, we show through a French case study, that computable location models can be used to ...

Author(s)
Raze, J. F.; Barget, E.
Publisher
Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, Geneva, Switzerland
Citation
International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing , 2007, 2, 5/6, pp 591-607
Abstract

This chapter shows that the problems identified in the Report of the Panel on Baseball Economics (in the USA), published in July 2000, are very close to those that are the really crucial ones inherent in contemporary European football, namely: the effects of great disparities of income between...

Author(s)
Moorhouse, H. F.
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, Cheltenham, UK
Citation
Transatlantic sport: the comparative economics of North American and European sports, 2002, pp 69-92
Abstract

This book offers a comparative perspective on the economics of sport and highlights both the similarities and differences in the North American and European models of sport. It tackles policy issues, such as organizing, financing and regulation of team sports alongside theoretical issues regarding...

Author(s)
Barros, C. P.; Ibrahímo, M.; Szymanski, S.
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, Cheltenham, UK
Citation
Transatlantic sport: the comparative economics of North American and European sports, 2002, pp xi + 222 pp.
Abstract

The benefits that congruence between a sports club and its main sponsor delivers to the club are not well understood. This study tested a preliminary model that examined the direct and mediated relationships between the motivations for club membership, perceptions of the club and sponsor,...

Author(s)
Johnston, M. A.; Paulsen, N.
Publisher
Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, Geneva, Switzerland
Citation
International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing , 2011, 9, 1/2, pp 29-53
Abstract

This article examines the impact of fan identification with a sports club on consumers' attitudes toward the sponsor and consumers' purchase intentions. To evaluate this relation a cause-and-effect chain was developed, which is able to show the triangular relationship between sport team, fan and...

Author(s)
Schlesinger, T.; Gungerich, M.
Publisher
Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, Geneva, Switzerland
Citation
International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing , 2011, 9, 1/2, pp 54-74
Abstract

This collection of 10 papers focuses on sports and tourism at the regional level and the contribution of sports and sporting events to regional development.

Author(s)
Barros, C. P.; Andreff, W.; Prieto-Rodriguez, J.
Publisher
Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, Geneva, Switzerland
Citation
International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing , 2007, 2, 5/6, pp 443-607
Abstract

The purpose of this chapter is to identify what might be an appropriate stance for competition law in relation to professional team sports. The chapter focuses on three recent decisions in relation to professional football: the Bosman case; the UK Monopoly and Mergers Commission's investigation...

Author(s)
Sloane, P. J.
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, Cheltenham, UK
Citation
Transatlantic sport: the comparative economics of North American and European sports, 2002, pp 50-68

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