Contents:
Foreword
William Greene
Preface
PART I: COMPETITIVE BALANCE
1. Two to Tango: Optimum Competitive Balance in Professional Sports
Leagues
John Vrooman
2. Major League Baseball Attendance Time Series: League Policy
Lessons
Rodney Fort and Young Hoon Lee
PART II: PLAYER’S LABOUR MARKETS
3. Wages, Transfers and the Variation of Team Performance in the
English Premier League
Stefan Szymanski
4. Team Wage Bills and Sporting Performance: Evidence from (Major
and Minor) European Football Leagues
Bernd Frick
5. Returns to Thuggery in the National Hockey League: The Effects
of Increased Enforcement
Leo Kahane, Neil Longley and Robert Simmons
6. Valuing the Blind Side: Pay and Performance of Offensive Linemen
in the National Football League
David J. Berri, Brad R. Humphreys and Robert Simmons
PART III: ATTENDANCE
7. Endogeneity in Attendance Demand Models
Roger G. Noll
8. Estimation of Temporal Variations in Fan Loyalty: Application of
Multi-factor Models
Young Hoon Lee
9. The Determinants of Football Match Attendance in Spanish
Football: An Empirical Analysis
Jaume García and Plácido Rodríguez
PART IV: ECONOMIC IMPACT
10. Estimating Economic Impact Using Ex Post Econometric Analysis:
Cautionary Tales
Robert Baumann and Victor A. Matheson
11. Should I Wish on a Stadium? Measuring the Average Effect on the
Treated
Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt and Georgios Kavetsos
12. Spain and the FIFA World Cup 2018/2022: A Qualitative and
Quantitative Analysis
José Baños and Plácido Rodríguez
Epilogue
Plácido Rodríguez, Stefan Késenne and Jaume García
Index
Edited by Plácido Rodríguez, University of Oviedo, Spain, the late Stefan Késenne, formerly University of Antwerp and KU Leuven, Belgium and Jaume García, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
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