Contemporary Research in Sports Economics

Oliver Budzinski is Professor of Economic Theory at the Institute of Economics of the Ilmenau University of Technology (Germany).Arne Feddersen is Professor (MSO) of Industrial Economics at the Department of Environmental and Business Economics of the University of Southern Denmark, Campus Esbjerg.

• Contents: Oliver Budzinski/Arne Feddersen: Introduction – Thomas Peeters/Stefan Szymanski: Financial Fair Play: Winners and Losers on and off the Pitch – Sean Hamil: Financial Fair Play - Why Loss-Making Is a Problem: The Example of the English Football League – Joel Maxcy: The American View on Financial Fair Play – Oliver Budzinski: The Competition Economics of Financial Fair Play – Thomas Könecke/Mathias Schubert: Socio-economic Doping and Enhancement in Sport: A Case-based Analysis of Dynamics and Structural Similarities – Nikolaus Beck/Mark Meyer: In Urgent Need of Change? Within-season Coach Dismissals, Regression-to-the-mean, and Performance of Football Teams – Tim Pawlowski/Oliver Budzinski: Competitive Balance and Attention Level Effects: Theoretical Considerations and Preliminary Evidence – Peter Ochieng: Spill-overs? Economic Progress, Football Facilities and the 2011 Asia Cup – Wladimir Andreff: The Winner’s Curse in Sports Economics – José Baños/Levi Pérez/Víctor Puente/Plácido Rodríguez: Sports on the Air: A GARCH Examination of the Impact of Broadcasts of Live Sporting Events on Television Audience Sizes – Christopher M. Keshock/Brooke Forester/Shelley Holden: Gridiron Games: A Case Analysis of Turf War Issues and the Economic, Social, Cultural, and Political Incentives for Government Subsidization – Daam Van Reeth/Wim Lagae: Public Opinion on Doping in Cycling: Differences among Population Groups – Grzegorz Kwiatkowski/Ove Oklevik: Analysis of Event Visitors’ Expenditure Patterns: The Case of Three Fis Ski Jumping World Cup Events 2013 – Anika Müller/Oliver Budzinski: The Economics of Motorsport Centers – Daam Van Reeth: A Survey of 5 Years of ESEA Conferences.