TY - BOOK AU - Andreff,Wladimir TI - Contemporary issues in sports economics: participation and professional team sports T2 - New horizons in the economics of sport SN - 9781849804479 (hbk.) AV - GV 716 .C667 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - Cheltenham, Northampton, Mass. PB - Edward Elgar KW - Sports KW - Economic aspects KW - Professional sports N1 - 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 ER -