Contemporary issues in sports economics : participation and professional team sports / edited by Wladimir Andreff. - Cheltenham ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar, 2011. - xi, 178 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - New horizons in the economics of sport . - New horizons in the economics of sport. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contemporary issues in sports economics : a selection / Wladimir Andreff -- Participation, spectatorship and media coverage in sport : some initial insights / Peter Dawson and Paul Downward -- Relational goods at work! Crime and sport participation in Italy : evidence from panel data regional analysis over the period 1997-2003 / Raul Caruso -- Sport financing and governance in Europe / Stefan Szymanski -- The effect on player transfers of a luxury tax on club payrolls : the case of Major League Baseball / Joel G. Maxcy -- The role of information in professional football and the German football betting market / Frank Daumann and Markus Breuer -- Guessing who wins or predicting the exact score : does it make any difference in terms of the demand for football pools? / Jaume Garc�ia, Levi P�erez, Pl�acico Rodr�iguez -- Is European football's future to become a boring game? / Wladimir Andreff, Ga�el Raballand.

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Sports--Economic aspects.
Professional sports--Economic aspects.

GV 716 / .C667 2011