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dc.contributor.authorFeddersen, Arneen
dc.contributor.authorMaennig, Wolfgangen
dc.date.accessioned2011-09-05-
dc.date.accessioned2011-09-05T13:52:38Z-
dc.date.available2011-09-05T13:52:38Z-
dc.date.issued2005en
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-940369-01-7en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/49289-
dc.description.abstractThe concept of competitive balance is a central aspect in the literature of sports economics. A popular argumentation of sport functionaries is that dominance of one or a few teams could lead to unequal incomes for the clubs, restrictions in the clubs' ability to improve sporting performance and ultimately to a loss of attractiveness and loss of income for the league. Following this line of reasoning and alleging a negative trend in competitive sports functionaries often try to implement regulations in team sport leagues. The aim of this paper is to analyze for eight different leagues if there is such a trend existing. For an empirical test for trends in competitive balance of four European soccer leagues (ENG, ESP, GER, ITA) and four US Major Leagues (MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL), OLS regressions with a constant were carried out. For the entire observation period from 1969/70 to 2003/2004, of 48 trends ascertained, only 12 could be observed as being significantly positive (i.e. growing imbalance) with 19 significantly negative (i.e. growing balance). The remaining 17 trends were insignificantly different from zero.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aUniversity of Hamburg, Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, Chair for Economic Policy |cHamburgen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aHamburg Contemporary Economic Discussions |x01/2005en
dc.subject.jelL83en
dc.subject.jelC22en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordCompetitive Balanceen
dc.subject.keywordSports Economicsen
dc.subject.keywordTeam Sport Leaguesen
dc.subject.keywordTrenden
dc.titleTrends in competitive balance: Is there evidence for growing imbalance in professional sport leagues?-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn667685561en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen
dc.identifier.repecRePEc:hce:wpaper:200501en

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