Advances in Sports Economics

Professional sport generates a vast amount of data that economists can analyze to better understand the behavior, choices, and outcomes of players, referees, regulators, and governments. Advances in Sports Economics provides a collection of essays that examine economic issues in various sports, such as incentives, rule changes, labor markets, competition structure, gambling, gender equality, match official behavior, superstar players, funding, and sports infrastructure.

Format: Hardback
Length: 360 pages
Publication date: 24 June 2021
Publisher: Agenda Publishing

The data that professional sport generates is almost unparalleled in any other industry, providing a wealth of information for economists to analyze. Sport offers economists the opportunity to study the behavior, choices, and outcomes of the decisions made by players, referees, regulators, and governments.

Advances in Sports Economics is a collection of newly commissioned essays that examine a wide range of different sports, including baseball, basketball, cricket, football, horse racing, rugby, tennis, and Gaelic games. The contributors consider economic issues such as incentives, rule, rule changes, labor markets, competition structure, gambling, gender equality, match official behavior, superstar players, funding, and sports infrastructure as well as interrogating the methods and theories used in sports economics.

The essays showcase how the application of economic analysis can provide us with a better understanding of the mechanics of professional sport.

Weight: 776g
Dimension: 179 x 247 x 35 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781788213547