The Oxford Handbook of Sports Economics: Volume 2: Economics Through Sports (Oxford Handbooks)
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (807 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195387783 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 480 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Highly recommended." --Choice. "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
Topics in Applied microeconomics like demand estimation and price discrimination are also covered in several of the included papers. Labor Economics comes into play in the areas of salary formation, salary dispersion, and discrimination. The limits of Econometrics are pushed and illustrated with superb data in many of the papers herein. The Efficient Market Hypothesis is examined with data from gambling markets. Game Theory, measurement of production functions, and measurement of managerial efficiency all come into play. These two themes of economics helping sports and sports helping economics provide the organizational structure to the two-volume set.The reader will find that sports economists employ or comment on practically every field in economics. 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. Public Finance and Contingent Value Modeling come into play in the study of stadium finance and franchise location. 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 discri
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Professor Shmanske has taught Economics at California State University, East Bay (formerly C.S.U., Hayward) for over 30 years. Kahane is Associate Professor of Economics at Providence College and Editor of the Journal of Sports Economics.. Leo H