Format:
1 online resource (478 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780521661584
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9780511154317
Content:
An economic analysis of professional football. Uses theoretical and empirical methods to consider role of owners, managers, players and spectators. Concludes with an extended discussion of key policy issues, including European super league proposals, contractual arrangements in the players' labour market, and football's evolving relationship with the broadcasting media
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The economics of team sports: three seminal contributions and the subsequent development of the subject -- Rottenberg: 'The baseball players' labor market', Journal of Political Economy, 1956 -- Neale: 'The peculiar economics of professional sports', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1964 -- Sloane: 'The economics of professional football: the football club as a utility maximiser', Scottish Journal of Political... -- The economics of team sports since the 1970s -- 1.2 Outline of this volume -- 1.3 The use of econometrics in this volume -- 2 Professional football: historical development and economic structure -- 2.1 The commercial structure of Europe's 'big five' football leagues -- 2.2 The English football league: competitive structure and team performance -- Origins and competitive structure -- Team performance -- 2.3 Match attendances -- Trends in attendances -- Explanations for changes in attendances -- 2.4 Admission prices and gate revenues -- 2.5 English football and the broadcasting media -- The history of televised football -- The BSkyB takeover bid for Manchester United, and the collective sale of broadcasting rights -- 2.6 Other sources of revenue and cross-subsidy -- 2.7 Football's labour market: players' wages and the transfer system -- 2.8 The historical development of professional football: international comparisons -- France -- Japan -- 2.9 Convergence and divergence in the league gate revenues of English football clubs -- Measuring convergence, divergence and inequality -- Convergence tests: empirical results -- 2.10 Conclusion -- 3 Competitive balance and uncertainty of outcome -- 3.1 Economic theory of competitive balance in sports leagues -- The North American professional team sports model
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9.1 Sources of competitive imbalance in English football -- 9.2 The future of professional football -- European leagues -- Wage inflation and football's 'arms race' -- Ownership, control and media interests in football -- 9.3 Conclusion -- References -- Index
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Estimation of managerial efficiency scores -- Estimation of hazard functions -- 6.5 Hazard functions for English managers: duration measured in matches -- 6.6 The effect of managerial change on team performance: evidence from North American team sports -- 6.7 Managerial succession effects in English football: performance measured by season -- 6.8 Managerial succession effects in English football: performance measured by match -- 6.9 Conclusion -- 7 The demand for football attendance -- 7.1 Econometric analysis of football attendances -- Measuring the demand for football attendance -- Demographic and geographic determinants of attendance -- Price, income and unemployment -- Team quality and uncertainty of outcome -- Other influences on attendance -- 7.2 Case studies in the sociology of football attendance: FC Barcelona, and Celtic and Rangers -- FC Barcelona -- Celtic and Rangers -- 7.3 Modelling the demand for attendance at English league football, 1947-1997 -- Estimation of club-level annual average attendance equations -- Explaining base attendances, and the loyalty, league position, price and goals scored coefficients -- 7.4 Conclusion -- 8 Information transmission and efficiency: share prices and fixed-odds betting -- 8.1 Ownership, finance and English football's stock market boom -- 8.2 Football team performance and share price movements: an event study -- League match results -- Promotion and relegation -- FA Cup and European elimination -- The BSkyB bid for Manchester United -- 8.3 Efficiency of prices in the fixed-odds betting market -- Testing for weak-form efficiency without using the forecasting model -- Testing for weak-form efficiency using the forecasting model -- An illustration: bets on the results of Premier League matches played on 24 April 1999 -- 8.4 Conclusion -- 9 Professional football: current issues and future prospects
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Theoretical models of sports leagues: some preliminaries -- The closed model -- The open model -- Empirical investigations and extensions -- 3.2 Patterns in football league match results -- Average home and away performance -- Good and poor sequences, and match result probabilities -- 3.3 Modelling and forecasting match results -- Previous literature on modelling football results -- Specification of the model -- Estimation of the model -- An illustration: Middlesbrough volumeArsenal, Premier League, 24 April 1999 -- 3.4 Conclusion -- 4 The labour and transfer markets -- 4.1 Player mobility, migration and career structure in the English league -- Ages and dates of birth -- Birthplaces and first clubs -- Professional career histories -- 4.2 Patterns of international migration for professional footballers -- 4.3 The earnings of professional footballers -- The economics of superstars -- Rank-order tournaments and intra-team earnings distributions -- 4.4 Determinants of players' compensation: empirical evidence -- 4.5 The football transfer market -- The determination of transfer fees: a theoretical model -- The determination of transfer fees: data and empirical results -- 4.6 Conclusion -- 5 The contribution of the football manager -- 5.1 The role of the football manager -- 5.2 Measuring the managerial contribution: the production frontier approach -- Production' in professional team sports -- Estimation of team production functions -- 5.3 Measuring managerial efficiency in English football -- 5.4 Conclusion -- 6 Managerial change and team performance -- 6.1 Patterns of managerial change in English football -- 6.2 Determinants of managerial change: evidence from North American team sports -- 6.3 Specification of job-departure hazard functions -- 6.4 Hazard functions for English managers: duration measured in seasons
Additional Edition:
Print version Dobson, Stephen The Economics of Football Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,c2001 ISBN 9780521661584
Language:
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