Advances in sports economics /
A wide-ranging collection of newly commissioned essays which examine the multifaceted field of sports economics in baseball, basketball, cricket, football, Gaelic games, horse racing, rugby and tennis.
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| Hōputu: | Licensed eBooks |
| Reo: | Ingarihi |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Agenda Publishing,
2022.
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| Urunga tuihono: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv25tnx3v |
Rārangi ihirangi:
- Part I – Introducing Sports Economics. A brief history of the economics of sport / Robert Butler
- Methods and theories in sports economics / Robert Simmons
- Economics, analytics and decisions: insights from professional team sports on the importance of context / Bill Gerrard
- Part II – Team Sports. Introduction to the economics of Major League Baseball / Rodney Fort
- Understanding the National Basketball Association through the lens of economic research / Brad R. Humphreys and Alexander Cardazzi
- The economics of association football / David Butler and Robert Butler
- Part III – English "Bat and Ball" Sports. It’s just not cricket: rules and the gentleman’s game / Sarah Jewell, James Reade and Carl Singleton
- Incentive effects: assessing effort and heterogeneity in professional tennis / Ferdi Botha and Byron Chadwick
- From Lords to Bollywood: cricket economics, the rise of T20 and the Indian Premier League / Patrick Massey
- Part IV – Horse Racing and Sports Betting. The peculiar economics of horse racing / David Forrest
- Economic issues of horse racing in Ireland / Tracy Bradfield, Robert Butler and Thia Hennessy
- All jockeys are equal, but some jockeys are more equal than others / Vanessa Cashmore
- The economics of sports betting and sports betting in economics / Julio del Corral and Carlos Gomez-Gonzalez
- Part V – Refereeing. On- and off-field behaviour of match officials in professional team sports / Peter Dawson, Patrick Massey and Paul Downward
- Do umpires prefer blonds (and other noticeable types) to take Charlie home? / Liam J. A. Lenten
- Part VI – Indigenous Football. Playing senior inter-county Gaelic games: the time commitments given and consequences / Elish Kelly
- Comparing tie-breaker modes in an alternative Australian Football League draft pick allocation policy / Noel Boys and Liam J. A. Lenten
- Part VII – Sports Funding. Public funding of sport: an example from Europe / John Considine
- Spatial distribution and sports infrastructure / John Eakins