The economics of competitive sports / edited by Plácido Rodríguez, Stefan Késenne, Ruud Koning.
| Other author | Rodríguez, Plácido. |
| Other author | Késenne, Stefan. |
| Other author | Koning, Ruud H. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, [2015] |
| Description | xi, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | New horizons in the economics of sport New horizons in the economics of sport. ^A1060377 |
| Contents | Rival sports league formation and competition / Xiao Gang Che and Brad R. Humphreys -- The pyramid market of the European Sports Model: the economics of federations / Fernando Tenreiro -- The English disease: has football hooliganism been eliminated or just displaced? / Colin Green and Robert Simmons -- Where to play first (away or home) in a best-of-two tournament? An analysis from UEFA competitions / Carlos Varela-Quintana, Julio del Corral and Juan Prieto-Rodríguez -- Long-term and short-term causes of insolvency and English football / Stefan Szymanski -- The optimal competitive balance in a sports league? / Stefan Késenne -- Live football demand / Ruud Koning and Jeroen Achterhof -- Sport talent, media value and equal prize policies in tennis / Pedro Garcia-del-Barrio and Francesc Pujol -- Career duration in capital-intensive individualistic sports: evidence from ski jumping, golf and auto racing / Bernd Frick, Brad R. Humphreys and Friedrich Scheel -- Determinants of national medals totals at the summer Olympic Games: an analysis disaggregated by sport / David Forrest, Ian G. McHale, Ismael Sanz and J.D. Tena -- Economic prediction of sport performances from the Beijing Olympics to the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa: the notion of surprising sporting outcomes / Wladimir Andreff and Madeleine Andreff. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014959467 |
| ISBN | 1783474750 (cased) |
| ISBN | 9781783474752 (cased) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |