Handbook of Sports Economics Research (Hardcover)

List of Tables and Figures; Part I: Introduction; 1. Handbook of Sports Economics Research: An Overview, John Fizel; 2. Sports Economics: State of the Discipline, R. Todd Jewell; Part II: Review and Analysis of Specific Sports; 3. National Basketball Association, David J. Berri; 4. National Hockey League, John C. Leadley and Zenon X. Zygmont; 5. Major League Baseball, John Fizel and Lawrence Hadley; 6. European Football (Soccer), Victor A. Matheson; 7. Female Intercollegiate Athletes and Women's Athletics, Brad R. Humphreys; 8. The Economics of Individual Sports, Peter von Allmen; Appendix: The National Football League's Conundrum; Part III: Issues Across the Sports Industry; 9. Demand Issues: The Product Market for Professional Sports, Anthony Krautmann and Lawrence Hadley; 10. Competitive Balance in North American Professional Sports, Rodney Fort; Part IV: Econometrics and Theory in Sports Economics; 11. Team Sports Efficiency Estimation and Stochastic Frontier Models, Young Hoon Lee; 12. Econometric Models in Sports Economics, Michael A. Leeds and Barbara Erin McCormick; 13. The Theory of Contests, Stefan Szymanski; Index; * About the Editors and Contributors.