Articles in this issue:

• Spectator Interest in Attending Future Danish Men’s National Soccer Team Matches: A Study of Demand

  Rasmus K. Storm

  Tor Georg Jakobsen

  and Nikolaj Schelde

  Existing research on spectator demand tends to focus primarily on elite club sport. This paper aims to expand on the literature by applying regression models to a large and unique set of survey data collected from Danish men’s national soccer team matches held from 2013 to 2017. The output from our models suggests that the number of matches attended is positively related to future demand, as are the results of the matches. Our results have implications for managers of national sports federations because they provide information on how spectators’ interest in and intention to attend matches...Read more

• Does Foreign Investment Affect Sporting and Managerial Efficiency? The Case of English Football Clubs

  José Manuel Cordero

  Julio del Corral

  Carlos Gomez-Gonzalez

  and Cristina Polo

  The number of foreign owners in football clubs has recently increased in Europe and especially in England. This study aims to analyze whether clubs owned by foreign investors show different parameters of sporting and managerial efficiency. We use data on expected performance (from betting odds), wage costs, and the results of football clubs in the English Premier League (EPL) and English Football League Championship (EFL) over 13 seasons. We estimate different measures of efficiency using three alternative methods: expected vs. actual performance index, nonparametric conditional data...Read more

• Team Masculinity and Performance: Evidence from Major League Soccer

  Dmitry Kirpishchikov

  Petr Parshakov

  and Marina Zavertiaeva

  Previous papers provide evidence that psychological characteristics such as personal masculinity are related to performance. Although relationships have been well established on an individual level, there has been little attempt to analyze the performance of teams that diverge in terms of masculinity. This paper studies the impact of team masculinity on its performance, paying particular attention to the connection between masculinity and cooperative behavior within a team. We use data on Major League Soccer teams because sports competitions represent a good ground for demonstrating...Read more

• On Sports Betting and Uncertainty of Outcome

  Thomas J. Miceli

  This paper provides an explanation for sports betting that does not appeal to risk-preferring preferences. The strategy is to link betting to the uncertainty of outcome hypothesis, a cornerstone of sports economics. The model relies on the inclusion of a contest utility function as part of a fan’s overall utility. The analysis focuses on point-spread betting and shows that sports fans can increase their contest utility by placing a bet if the contest is unequal and if they are either non-partisan or are sufficiently strong supporters of the underdog. When these conditions are met, an...Read more

• 14th European Sport Economics Association (ESEA) Conference

  University College Cork; Cork, Ireland, August 23–25, 2023

  Founded in 2010, European Sport Economics Association (ESEA) is a scientific association that pursues the goal of promoting communications between scientists and practitioners working in the field of sports economics. The ESEA Conference is the annual gathering of the European Sport Economics Association.

  Keynote speakers for the 14th ESEA Conference:

  Dr. Jane Ruseski
  John Chambers College of Business and Economics
  West Virginia University (WVU)

  Dr. Alex Bryson
  Social Research Institute...Read more