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Informationen zum Autor Stephen Shmanske is Professor of Economics! California State University! East Bay. Leo H. Kahane is Associate Professor of Economics! Providence College. Klappentext These two volumes contain over 50 essays from prominent Sports Economists! grouped around two related themes: the Economics of Sports and Economics through Sports. The first volume explains how economics aids sports through the systematic application of economic theory and logic to the institutions in sports. The second volume explains how sports helps economics! via quality data used to test a variety of economic theories. "Covering professional and NCAA team and individual sports, this set provides timely overviews of major sports industry issues together with empirical applications ranging from attendance to ZIP code analysis. No sports economist will want to be without this resource; all can enjoy and benefit from lucid, insightful applications of the "dismal science" to areas that are anything but dismal. Highly recommended." --Choice Zusammenfassung Stephen Shmanske and Leo Kahane have brought together nearly all of the important authors in the quickly growing field of Sports Economics to contribute chapters to this two-volume set. The result is truly informative in its content and path breaking in its importance to the field. Anyone contemplating research in the field of sports economics will find the works in these volumes to provide both ample background in subject after subject and numerous suggestions forfuture avenues of research. The editors have recognized two ways that economics and sports interact. First! economic analysis has helped everyone understand many of the peculiar institutions in sports. And second! quality data about individual productivity! salaries! career histories! teamwork! and managerial behavior has helped economists study topics as varied as the economics of discrimination! salary dispersion! and antitrust policy. These two themes of economics helping sports and sports helping economics providethe organizational structure to the two-volume set. The reader will find that sports economists employ or comment on practically every field in economics. Labor Economics comes into play in the areas of salary formation! salary dispersion! and discrimination. Baseball's history and the NCAA are studied with Industrial Organization and Antitrust. Public Finance and Contingent Value Modeling come into play in the study of stadium finance and franchise location. The Efficient Market Hypothesis is examined with data from gambling markets.Macroeconomic effects are studied with data from mega events like the Super Bowl! The World Cup! and the Olympics. The limits of Econometrics are pushed and illustrated with superb data in many of the papers herein. Topics in Applied microeconomics like demand estimation and price discrimination are alsocovered in several of the included papers. Game Theory! measurement of production functions! and measurement of managerial efficiency all come into play. Talented authors in each of these fields have made contributions to these volumes. The volumes are also rich from the point of view of the sports fan. Every major team sport is covered! and many interesting comparisons can be made especially between the North American League organization and the European-style promotion and relegation leagues. Golf! NASCAR! College athletics! Women's sports! the Olympics! and even bowling are represented in these pages. There is literally something for everyone. ...
