Research Catalog

Title

Handbook of sports economics research / edited by John Fizel.

Publication

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [2006], ©2006.

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Additional Authors

Fizel, John.

Description

viii, 280 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"The dynamic nature of the sports industry continually introduces new issues and uncovers new aspects of old issues. Covering professional team sports (e.g., baseball, basketball, hockey, soccer), women's collegiate sports, and individual sports (e.g., tennis, golf, motor racing), this handbook examines what we know, what we do not know, what is stable, what is changing, what is certain, and what is controversial in sports economics. The wealth of data available is sports makes the industry a laboratory to observe economics and business behavior and theory not possible in other industries. The handbook also addresses a comparison of sports along major topics and methodological processes used to understand the operations of sports. This unique reference on sports economics research provides a perspective on the state of the discipline."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Professional sports > Economic aspects > United States > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Sports > Economic aspects > United States > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Sports administration > Economic aspects > United States > Handbooks, manuals, etc

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-271) and index.

Contents

1. Handbook of sports economics research : an overview / John Fizel -- 2. Sports economics : state of the discipline / R. Todd Jewell -- 3. National Basketball Association / David J. Berri -- 4. National Hockey League / John C. Leadley and Zenon X. Zygmont -- 5. Major league baseball / John Fizel and Lawrence Hadley -- 6. European football (soccer) / Victor A. Matheson -- 7. Female intercollegiate athletes and women's athletics / Brad R. Humphreys -- 8. The economics of individual sports : golf, tennis, track, and NASCAR / Peter von Allmen -- App. The National Football League's conundrum / John Fizel -- 9. Demand issues : the product market for professional sports / Anthony Krautmann and Lawrence Hadley -- 10. Competitive balance in North American professional sports / Rodney Fort -- 11. Team sports efficiency estimation and stochastic frontier models / Young Hoon Lee -- 12. Econometric models in sports economics / Michael A. Leeds and Barbara Erin McCormick -- 13. The theory of contests / Stefan Szymanski.

ISBN

0765615940 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2005018045

OCLC

• 60839294
• ocm60839294
• SCSB-5927703

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries