15625

,

participation and professional team sports

edited by Wladimir Andreff

Edward Elgar,

xi, 178 p.: ill

New horizons in the economics of sport

Contemporary issues in sports economics : a selection / Wladimir Andreff -- Participation, spectatorship and media coverage in sport : some initial insights / Peter Dawson and Paul Downward -- Relational goods at work! Crime and sport participation in Italy : evidence from panel data regional analysis over the period 1997-2003 / Raul Caruso -- Sport financing and governance in Europe / Stefan Szymanski -- The effect on player transfers of a luxury tax on club payrolls : the case of Major League Baseball / Joel G. Maxcy -- The role of information in professional football and the German football betting market / Frank Daumann and Markus Breuer -- Guessing who wins or predicting the exact score : does it make any difference in terms of the demand for football pools? / Jaume Garcaia, Levi Paerez, Plaacico Rodraiguez -- Is European footballʹs future to become a boring game? / Wladimir Andreff, Gaeel Raballand.

AU Andreff, Wladimir,1946-

GV

716

.C66

2011

9781849804479 (hbk.) ,

Includes bibliographical references and index.

2011