List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Preface

Transatlantic sport: an introduction

Carlos Pestana Barros

Muradali Ibrahimo

Stefan Szymanski

PART 1 PUBLIC POLICY AND SPORTS ECONOMICS

European and US sports business models

Wladimir Andreff

Paul D. Staudohar

The regulation of professional team sports

Peter J. Sloane

The distribution of income in European football: big clubs, small countries, major problems

H.F. Moorhouse

PART 2 ECONOMIC THEORY AND TEAM SPORTS

Improving the competitive balance and the salary distribution in professional team sports

Stefan Kesenne

Equality of opportunity and equality of outcome: static and dynamic competitive balance in European and American sports leagues

Stefan Szymanski

Ron Smith

PART 3 COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS AND SPORTS

Bidding for the Olympics: fool's gold?

Robert A. Baade

Victor Matheson

Economic impact of sporting events: what has to be measured?

J.J. Gouguet

The Soccer World Cup 2006 in Germany: choosing match locations by applying a modified cost-benefit model

Bernd Rahmann

Markus Kurscheidt

Sports policy at regional level: estimating the economic value of amateur sports managers

Carlos Pestana Barros

Jaime Lucas

Index