Handbook on the economics of sport / edited by Wladimir Andreff, Stefan Szymanski.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents
44. The economics of tennis
Pt VI Team sports 45. The development of team sports before 1914
Sect A The economics of professional sports and leagues 46. Organisational models of professional team sports leagues
47. Baseball economics
48. The economics of soccer
49. Football in England
50. The state of the Italian football industry
51. The economics of soccer in Spain
52. Football in Germany
53. Football in France
54. American football
55. Labour economics on the hardwood: the NBA
56. European professional basketball in crisis, 1992́“2002
57. Ice hockey
58. The economic development of the Australian Football League
59. Rugby: strategy and structure
60. The economics of professional rugby
61. The economics of cricket
Sect B Principal economic issues 62. Uncertainty of outcome, competitive balance and the theory of team sports
63. The objective function of a team
64. Production functions for sporting teams
65. Revenue sharing
66. The reserve clause in Major League Baseball
67. The retain and transfer system
68. The Bosman case and European football
69. The reverse-order-of-finish draft in sports
70. Chasing the elusive salary cap
71. The luxury tax in professional sports
72. "At the top table": player unions in soccer
73. The player transfer system in soccer
74. Player agents
75. The promotion and relegation system
76. Team sports and finance
77. Inelastic sports pricing at the gate? A survey
78. Financial innovation in professional team sports: the case of English Premiership soccer
79. Collective selling of broadcast rights in team sports
80. The sporting exception and the legality of restraints in the US
81. The specificity of sport and European Community law: the example of nationality
82. Sport and globalisation: sport as a global public good.
Introduction: sport and economics
Pt I Sport in the economy 1. Sports accounting
2. The production of professional team sports
3. The sports goods industry
4. Sport and gambling
5. Sponsorship
6. International trade in sports goods
Pt II Demand for sport 7. The demand for sport
8. The demand for spectator sports
9. Attendance at sports events
10. The demand for sports broadcasting
11. The demand for media coverage
Pt III Cost-benefit analysis of sport 12. Economic impact analysis
13. Physical activity, sport and health
14. Employment in sport
15. Sporting externalities
16. The economic impact of mega-sporting events
17. The Olympics
18. The World Cup
19. The economic impact of sporting facilities
20. Voluntary work in sport
Pt IV Sporting governance and the state 21. Governance and governing bodies in sport
22. The economics of the IOC
23. Government objectives and sport
24. Central government and sport
25. Sport and financing
26. Military sport
27. Local government and regional development in sport
28. The European model of sport
29. The Anglo-American model of sport
30. Sport in developing countries
31. Soviet and post-soviet sport
32. International labour migration
33. Comparative advantage of nations
Pt V Individualistic sports 34. The theory of tournaments
35. Implications from the theory of contests for modelling and designing sports competitions
36. Citius, altius, fortius: the production of world records in the running and technical disciplines in track and field
37. On the competitive structure in professional boxing, or why the best boxers very seldom fight each other
38. Golf
39. The economics of British horseracing
40. The economics of collegiate athletics
41. The economics of US intercollegiate sports and the NCAA
42. The economics of cycling
43. Extreme sports (climbing and mountaineering).
Pt VII Dysfunctions in sport 83. Racial discrimination
84. Gender discrimination
85. Doping
86. Corruption.