Syllabus Sports Economics II (Master Program Economics) 1. Supply and demand on sports markets
1) Marburger, Daniel R. (1997), Gate revenue
sharing and luxury taxes in professional
sports, Contemporary Economic Policy XV:
114-123.
2) Késenne, Stefan (2011), Broadcasting sports,
pay-tv or free-tv?, Research Paper 2011-003,
Faculty of Applied Economics, University of
Antwerp.
3) Vrooman, John (1995), A general theory of
professional sports leagues, Southern
Economic Journal 61(4): 971-990.
4) Fort, Rodney/Quirk, James (2004), Owner
objectives and competitive balance, Journal of
Sports Economics 5(1): 20-32.
5) Késenne, Stefan/Pauwels, Wilfried (2006),
Club objectives and ticket pricing in
professional team sports, Eastern Economic
Journal 32(3): 549-560.
2. Talent and labor markets in sports
6) Bollinger, Christopher R./ Hotchkiss, Julie L.
(2003), The upside potential of hiring risky
workers: Evidence from the baseball industry,
Journal of Labor Economics 21(4): 923-944.
7) Vrooman, John (2007), Theory of the
beautiful game: The unification of European
football, Scottish Journal of Political
Economy 54(3): 314-354.
8) Szymanski, Stefan (2004), Professional team
sports are only a game: The Walrasian fixedsupply conjecture model, contest-Nash
equilibrium, and the invariance principle,
Journal of Sports Economics 5(2): 111-126.
9) Eckard, E. Woodrow (2006), Comment:
“Professional team sports are only a game:
The Walrasian fixed-supply conjecture model,
contest-Nash equilibrium, and the invariance
principle”, Journal of Sports Economics
7(2):234-239.
10) Szymanski, Stefan (2006), Reply:
“Professional team sports are only a game:
The Walrasian fixed-supply conjecture model,
contest-Nash equilibrium, and the invariance
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principle”, Journal of Sports Economics 7(2):
240-243.
3. Corruption
11) Duggan, Mark/Levitt, Steven D. (2002),
Winning isn’t everything: Corruption in Sumo
wrestling, American Economic Review 92(5):
1594-1605.
12) Dietl, Helmut M./Lang, Markus/Werner,
Stephan (2010), Corruption in professional
Sumo: An update on the study of Duggan and
Levitt, Journal of Sports Economics 11(4):
383-396.
4. Doping
13) Eber, Nicolas/Thépot, Jacques (1999), Doping
in sport and competition design, Recherches
Économiques de Louvain 65(4): 435-446.
5. Subsidies
14) Owen, Jeffrey G. (2003), The stadium game:
Cities versus teams, Journal o f Sports
Economics 4(3): 183-202.
15) Fort, Rodney (2004), Subsidies as incentive
mechanisms in sports, Managerial and
Decision Economics 25: 95-102.
Surveys:
1. Supply and demand on sports markets
- Szymanski, Stefan (2003), The economic design of sporting contests, Journal of Economic
Literature XLI: 1137-1187.
2. Talent and labor markets in sports
3. Corruption
- Maennig, Wolfgang (2005), Corruption in international sports and sport management:
Forms, tendencies, extent and countermeasures, European Sport Management Quarterly 5(2):
187-225.
4. Doping
- Dilger, Alexander/Frick, Bernd/Tolsdorf, Frank (2007), Are athletes doped? Some
theoretical arguments and empirical evidence, Contemporary Economic Policy 25(4): 604615.
5. Subsidies
- Baade, Robert A. (2003), Evaluating subsidies for professional sports in the United States
and Europe: A public-sector primer, Oxford Review of Economic Policy 19(4): 585-597.
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