Academic interest in the economics of professional team sports dates back as far as the mid-
1950s. Since then, many books and journal articles have been written on the subject. Much …

The sports industry provides a seemingly endless set of examples from every area of
microeconomics, giving students the opportunity to study economics in a context that holds …

How does one measure the productivity of an individual participating in a team sport? The
purpose of this inquiry is to answer this question via an econometric model that links the …

Prior work on long‐term contracts and the incentive to shirk has focused almost exclusively
on Major League Baseball. The current inquiry is the first to examine shirking in the National …

Until recently, the position of quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) was not an
option for Black athletes. Today, many teams use Black quarterbacks, a development that …

Professional sports are characterized by an abundance of information on worker productivity
and severe consequences for failure. Consequently one would expect information to be …

This study analyzes the differences between the determinants of economic demand for
television audiences and gate attendance. Due to data availability problems, there are few …

Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic seriously affected the global
economy and industry. Unlike previous studies that have discussed the economic losses …

This article tests for the existence of nationality discrimination in the English professional
soccer league. Although wage equations have typically been used by labor economists to …

The determinants of salaries for professional athletes in the National Basketball Association
(NBA) are examined to investigate how international athletes have fared relative to athletes …