The Comparative Economics of Sport

1. The Economic Design of Sporting Contests
Stefan Szymanski

2. The Political Economy of Sport
Stefan Szymanski

3. Antitrust and Inefficient Joint Ventures: Why Sports Leagues Should Look More Like McDonald’s and Less Like the United Nations
Stephen F. Ross, Stefan Szymanski

4. Open Competition in League Sports
Stephen F. Ross, Stefan Szymanski

5. Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Outcome: Open Leagues, Closed Leagues and Competitive Balance
Luigi Buzzacchi, Stefan Szymanski, Tommaso M. Valletti

6. Promotion and Relegation in Sporting Contests
Stefan Szymanski, Tommaso M. Valletti

7. Competitive Balance and Gate Revenue Sharing in Team Sports
Stefan Szymanski, Stefan Késenne

8. Professional Team Sports Are Only a Game: The Walrasian Fixed-Supply Conjecture Model, Contest-Nash Equilibrium, and the Invariance Principle
Stefan Szymanski

9. Why Have Premium Sports Rights Migrated to Pay TV in Europe But Not in the US?
Stefan Szymanski

10. Seizing the Moment: A Blueprint for Reform of World Cricket
Ian Preston, Stephen F. Ross, Stefan Szymanski

Keywords: Economics, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Regional/Spatial Science, International Economics