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The Economic Design of Sporting Contests

Szymanski, Stefan·2010·The Comparative Economics of Sport
DOI 10.1057/9780230274273_1
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What is the optimal number of entrants in a race, or the optimal number of teams in a baseball league? What is the optimal structure of prizes for a golf tournament, or degree of revenue sharing for a football championship? How evenly balanced should the competing teams be in the NASCAR or Formula One championships? What is the maximum number of entrants per nation to the Olympic Games that should be permitted? What quota of qualifying teams to the soccer World Cup should be allocated to the developing nations? These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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Authors
Szymanski, S.
Venue
The Comparative Economics of Sport
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Published
2010
Pages
1-78
DOI
10.1057/9780230274273_1
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676
References
86
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185.97
Type
book chapter
Language
en
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