The SAGE Handbook of Sports Economics

Brian Soebbing is with Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA.

PART I: The nature and value of the sports system and economy Chapter 1: Introduction - Paul Downward, Bernd Frick, Brad Humphreys, Tim Pawlowski, Jane Ruseski, & Brian Soebbing Chapter 2: Origins and Developments of Sports Systems - Wladimir Andreff Chapter 3: The Economic Value of Sport - Themis Kokolakakis, Chris Gratton, & Guenther Grohall PART II: Amateur sports participation, supply and impact Chapter 4: Sports Participation - Paul Downward & Christina Muniz Chapter 5: Sports Participation and Health - Jane E. Ruseski Chapter 6: Sport and Social Capital Formation - Tim Pawlowski & Ute Schuettoff Chapter 7: Recent Evidence on the Effects of Physical Activity on Human Capital and Employment - Michael Lechner & Carina Steckenleiter Chapter 8: Private Household Consumption in Sport - Fernando Lera-Lopez Chapter 9: Sports Clubs in Europe: Organisation - Christoph Breuer, Philipp Swierzy, & Svenja Feiler Chapter 10: Volunteering in Sports Clubs and its Impacts - Pamela Wicker Chapter 11: The Role of Money and Time Donations in the Supply of Amateur Sport - Kirstin Hallmann & Lea Rossi Chapter 12: The Economics of the National Collegiate Athletic Association - John J. Siegfried & Allen R. Sanderson PART III: Professional team sports Chapter 13: Economic Objective Functions in Team Sports: A Retrospective - Rodney Fort Chapter 14: European Sports Leagues: Origin and Features - Nicolas Scelles & Jean-Francois Brocard Chapter 15: Competition Policy in Sports Markets - Oliver Budzinski Chapter 16: Competitive Balance: Measurement and Relevance - Tim Pawlowski & Georgios Nalbantis Chapter 17: Economics of Attendance - Placido Rodriguez Chapter 18: Exposure and Television Audience Demand: The case of English Premier League Football - Babatunde Buraimo Chapter 19: Ticket Pricing - Brian P. Soebbing Chapter 20: Secondary Ticket Markets for Sport Events - Pascal Courty Chapter 21: The Economics of the Transfer Market - Stefan Kesenne Chapter 22: Team Production and Efficiency in Sports - Mikael Jamil Chapter 23: Officials and Home Advantage - James Reade Chapter 24: Franchise Relocation and Stadium Subsidies - Dennis Coates PART IV: Professional sports leagues Chapter 25: The Economics of Professional Soccer - Daniel Weimar Chapter 26: Cricket - Ian Gregory-Smith, David Paton, & Abhinav Sacheti Chapter 27: Rugby Union's Late Conversion to Professionalism: An Economic Perspective - Pat Massey Chapter 28: "The Answer" and the Economics of Basketball: Perceptions vs. Production - Dave Berri Chapter 29: Economics and the National Football League - Benjamin Blemings Chapter 30: The Baseball Players' Labor Market: An Update - Anthony C. Krautmann Chapter 31: Economic Issues of the National Hockey League: A Survey of the Literature - Duane W. Rockerbie & Stephan T. Easton Chapter 32: Australian Rules Football - Ross Booth & Robert Brooks Chapter 33: The Economics of Major League Soccer from the NASL to MLS: A brief history of North American professional soccer - Nick Watanabe PART V: Sports events and their impacts Chapter 34: The Economic Impact Measurement of Olympic Games - Holger Preuss Chapter 35: Major Events: Economic Impact - Wolfgang Maennig Chapter 36: Olympic Games: Public referenda, public opinion and willingness to pay - Wolfgang Maennig Chapter 37: Olympic Performance - Eva Marikova Leeds Chapter 38: The Economics of Mega-Events: The impact, costs, and benefits of the Olympic Games and the World Cup - Candon Johnson Chapter 39: Economic Impact of Minor Sporting Events and Minor League Teams - Marijke Taks & Nola Agha Chapter 40: Participation and demonstration effects: "Couch potatoes to runner beans"? - Peter Dawson Chapter 41: Willingness to pay in sports - Johannes Orlowski & Pamela Wicker Chapter 42: Positive and negative externalities of sport events: From well-being, pride, and social capital to traffic and crime - Pamela Wicker & Paul Downward PART VI: Individual sports Chapter 43: Running - Bernd Frick, Katharina Moser, & Katrin Scharfenkamp Chapter 44: Hitting the ball forward. The economics of racquet sports. - Julio del Corral & Carlos Gomez-Gonzalez Chapter 45: The Economics of Road Cycling - Daam van Reeth Chapter 46: The Economics of Golf - Stephen Shmanske Chapter 47: IRON(O)MICS: The Market for Long Distance-Triathlon - Joachim Prinz Chapter 48: NASCAR Economics - Peter Von Allmen PART VII: Future research Chapter 49: Behavioural Economics and Sport - Yulia Chikish & Brad R. Humphreys Chapter 50: Is There a Gender Difference in the Response to Competitive Settings? - Michael A. Leeds Chapter 51: Dynamic Pricing in Sports - Rodney J. Paul Chapter 52: Sports Betting - David Forrest Chapter 53: The Economics of Doping in Sports - A Special Case of Corruption - Eugen Dimant & Christian Deutscher Chapter 54: Performance Analysis - Bill Gerrard

This Handbook contains over 50 chapters in seven parts, written by leading sports economists. Coverage includes the nature of the sports system, participative sports, professional team sports, professional sports leagues, international comparisons, individual sports and future research. Each chapter is very informative and up-to-date. All sports economists will want a copy of this volume on their shelves. -- Peter Sloane This handbook contains timely and provocative contributions from leading scholars in the field of sports economics. The contributions span the structure and history of professional and amateur sports in Europe and North America and promises to be a useful guide to historical, current, and future research. -- Craig A. Depken, II