Economics through sports / edited by Stephen Shmanske and Leo H. Kahane.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2012.
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 459 pages) : illustrations

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Series
  • Oxford handbook of sports economics ; v. 2. [More in this series]
  • The Oxford handbook of sports economics ; v. 2
Summary note
Shmanske and Kahane have organized over 50 essays from prominent Sports Economists into two volumes around two related themes. This second volume explains how sports helps economics via quality data used to test a variety of economic theories.
Notes
"Print publication date: May 2012. Published online: Sep 2012."
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on print version record.
Contents
  • The economics of discrimination: Prejudice and progress in baseball : lessons on the economics of race and discrimination / Stephen J.K. Walters
  • The economics of discrimination : evidence from basketball / Lawrence M. Kahn
  • Gender and discrimination in professional golf / Stephen Shmanske
  • The economics of discrimination : evidence from hockey / Neil Longley.
  • llustrations of production theory: The production technology of Major League Baseball / Anthony C. Krautmann
  • Measuring performance in the National Basketball Association / David J. Berri
  • Frontier models and their application to the sports industry / Young Hoon Lee
  • Age and performance under pressure : golfers on the LPGA tour / Harold O. Fried and Loren W. Tauer
  • Salary dispersion and team production : evidence from the National Hockey League / Leo H. Kahane.
  • Illustrations of econometric methods: Travel and population issues in modeling attendance demand / David Forrest
  • Demand, attendance, and censoring : utilization rates in the National Football League / Martin B. Schmidt
  • Demand for attendance : price measurement / Richard C.K. Burdekin.
  • Illustrations of industrial organization: Major league baseball is just like McDonald's? : lessons from unrecognized rival leagues / Rodney Fort
  • The market structure of professional sports and the implications for stadium construction and team movements / Robert A. Baade
  • Location, location, location? : sports franchise placement in the four major U.S. sports leagues / Karl W. Einolf.
  • Illustrations of finance: Event analysis / Eva Marikova Leeds and Michael A. Leeds
  • Behavioral biases and sportsbook pricing in Major League Baseball / Rodney J. Paul and Andrew P. Weinbach.
  • Illustrations of public finance: Multiplier effects and local economic impact / Peter von Allmen
  • Contingent valuation of sports / Bruce K. Johnson and John C. Whitehead.
  • Miscellany: The economics of crime reconsidered : a game theoretic approach with an empirical test from Major League Baseball / Joseph P. McGarrity
  • Illustrations of price discrimination in baseball / Daniel A. Rascher and Andrew D. Schwarz
  • Contest theory and its applications in sports / Helmut Dietl, Egon Franck, Martin Grossmann, and Markus Lang
  • Tournament incentives in professional bowling / Michael L. Bognanno.
OCLC
859273021
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