Stephen Shmanske and Leo Kahane have brought together nearly all of the important authors in the quickly growing field of Sports Economics to contribute chapters to this two-volume set. The result is truly informative in its content and path breaking in its importance to the field. Anyone contemplating research in the field of sports economics will find the works in these volumes to provide both ample background in subject after subject and numerous suggestions for future avenues of research. The editors have recognized two ways that economics and sports interact. First, economic analysis has helped everyone understand many of the peculiar institutions in sports. And second, quality data about individual productivity, salaries, career histories, teamwork, and managerial behavior has helped economists study topics as varied as the economics of discrimination, salary dispersion, and antitrust policy. These two themes of economics helping sports and sports helping economics provide the organizational structure to the two-volume set. The reader will find that sports economists employ or comment on practically every field in economics. Labor Economics comes into play in the areas of salary formation, salary dispersion, and discrimination. Baseball's history and the NCAA are studied with Industrial Organization and Antitrust. Public Finance and Contingent Value Modeling come into play in the study of stadium finance and franchise location. The Efficient Market Hypothesis is examined with data from gambling markets. Macroeconomic effects are studied with data from mega events like the Super Bowl, The World Cup, and the Olympics. The limits of Econometrics are pushed and illustrated with superb data in many of the papers herein. Topics in Applied microeconomics like demand estimation and price discrimination are also covered in several of the included papers. Game Theory, measurement of production functions, and measurement of managerial efficiency all come into play. Talented authors in each of these fields have made contributions to these volumes. The volumes are also rich from the point of view of the sports fan. Every major team sport is covered, and many interesting comparisons can be made especially between the North American League organization and the European-style promotion and relegation leagues. Golf, NASCAR, College athletics, Women's sports, the Olympics, and even bowling are represented in these pages. There is literally something for everyone.
| ISBN | 0195387775 | | Pages | 512 | | ISBN13 | 9780195387773
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 1043 | | Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc | | Published in | New York | | Imprint | Oxford University Press Inc | | Series title | Oxford Handbooks in Economics | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 248 | | Publication date | 28 Jun 2012 | | Width (mm) | 172 | | DEWEY | 338.43796 | | Spine width (mm) | 36 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly |
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1. Economics of League Design: Open versus Closed Systems by Stefan Szymanski; 2. Competitive Balance by Brad R. Humphreys and Nicholas M. Watanabe; 3. Club Objectives, Competitive Balance and the Invariance Proposition by Stefan Kesenne; 4. Theory of the Big Dance: The Playoff Payoff In Pro Sports Leagues by John Vrooman; 5. Baseball's Antitrust Exemption: History and Current Relevance by Roger D. Blair and Jessica S. Haynes; 6. The Reserve Clause and Labor Mobility by Paul D. Staudohar; 7. Salary Caps and Luxury Taxes by Dennis Coates and Bernd Frick; 8. International Labor Mobility and the National Basketball Association by Evan Osborne; 9. The Demand for Violence in Hockey by Duane W. Rockerbie; 10. Hockey: Game Design and Overtime by Jason Abrevaya; 11. Field Position and Strategy in American Football by Kevin G. Quinn; 12. Network Television Revenue Sharing and Competitive Balance in the NFL by Ira Horowitz and G. E. Whittenburg; 13. Competing Leagues, Mergers, and Expansions by Aju J. Fenn; 14. The Bosman Ruling and Labour Mobility in Football (Soccer); BY JOHN GODDARD, PETER J. SLOANE AND JOHN O.S. WILSON; 15. Labour Supply and Human Capital Formation in Professional Team Sports: Evidence from the FA Premier League by Bill Gerrard; 16. Remembering Three Economic Studies on Professional Golf by Matthew Hood; 17. Economics of NASCAR by Andrew Abere, Peter Bronsteen and Kenneth G. Elzinga; 18. To Be or Not to Be: The NCAA as a Cartel by Robert D. Tollison; 19. What Does Intercollegiate Athletics Do To or For Colleges and Universities? by Malcolm Getz and John Siegfried; 20. Is March Madness Contagious? Post Season Play and Attendance in NCAA Division I Basketball by Craig A. Depken, II; 21. Gender Equity in Intercollegiate Athletics: Economic Considerations and Possible Fixes by Andrew Zimbalist; 22. Economics of the Olympics by Peter Dawson; 23. The Economics of the World Cup by Rob Simmons and Christian Deutscher; 24. Economics of the Super Bowl by Victor A. Matheson; 25. Career Duration in Professional Football: The Case of German Soccer Referees by Bernd Frick
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